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Activity
Edutopia

Edutopia: Goods and Services [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A unit that teaches the difference between goods and services, the difference between producers and consumers, the difference between human, natural, and capital resources, and the difference between bartering/trading and buying/selling....
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Lesson Plan
James Madison University

James Madison University: Online Elementary Economics Lessons

For Teachers K - 1st
James Madison University has developed a variety of online economic lessons for elementary students. Explore basic economic and financial concepts.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Write Now! Career Writing Prompts: Director, Human Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
WLVT PBS 39 and PSEA have teamed to create these innovative writing prompts on careers. This 1-minute video provides an opportunity for students to learn a bit about a career as a Director of Human Resources, and to write feedback to the...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Banks, Bankers, Banking

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson is a simulation of opening a bank. Students are assigned various roles to play within the banking business. Students learn about the role banks play in a market economy.
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Lesson Plan
Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Tortilla Factory [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson accompanies a story by Gary Paulsen called Tortilla Factory, and teaches students to identify the different types of resources (human, capital, natural, etc.) that go into creating corn tortillas and other products.
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Article
Investopedia

Investopedia: Human Capital

For Students 9th - 10th
This explanation of human capital makes clear the importance of the skills of employees as a business asset.
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Website
Other

Career Builder

For Students 9th - 10th
Search hundreds of thousands of jobs ? across the nation or in your own neighborhood. Explore the Career Builder Database to search jobs by keyword, job category, company, or industry.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Shoemaker's Tools

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson incorporates the folk tale of The Shoemaker and the Elves to teach your students about the concept of capital resources. Lesson contains a link to an animated retelling of this beloved classic. Use it to have students...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Destination: Mars

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Look up! Can you ever imagine standing on another planet and looking down at earth? We've been to the moon - now lets launch an expedition to Mars. Imagine all the preparation you will have to go through in order to have a safe and...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Music, Maestro, Please: Show Business and the Factors of Production

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania recently opened a $300 million dollar center for the performing arts, the Kimmel Center. This lesson was developed for a special teacher workshop to incorporate economics and the arts to teach kids...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Why Work Now?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Why do people work so hard? Why aren't you just assigned a job that you are interested in and get paid as much as the next guy? This lesson will show you why employers want the best workers that their money can buy!
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Work, Earnings and Economics: Using Lyddie by Katherine Paterson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In reading and discussing Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson, students examine basic economic concepts and explore the growth of labor unions and the role of government in a market economy.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: A Fair Wage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Income for most people is determined by the market value of the productive resources they sell. What workers earn depends, primarily, on the market value of what they produce and how productive they are.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Human Resources and Capital Resources: It's a Match!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will define and identify human resources and capital resources workers use in their jobs.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Do Other People Want to Be?

For Teachers K - 1st
In this instructional activity, students will graph people's job choices and identify which jobs would have the most competition based on the data.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Booker T. Washington:"fifty Cents and a Dream"

For Teachers K - 1st
Young Booker T. Washington had a dream. That dream was to use the resources at his disposal to earn the money necessary to get an education that would allow him and others to become financially secure. This lesson based on the picture...
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Activity
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Mystery Workers: Productive Resources

For Students K - 1st
This website focuses on productive resources which are divided into three categories, natural, human, and capital.
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PPT
Other

Induction To: Human Resources Outsourcing

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a slideshow on the pros and cons of outsourcing labor.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Those Golden Jeans

For Students 3rd - 8th
Check out this informative economics lesson plan designed to review the three productive resources--natural resources, human resources, and capital resources--needed to produce goods and services.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Economic Spotter: Resources During World War Ii

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In World War II pennies were made of steel and zinc instead of copper and women were working at jobs that men had always been hired to do. Why? Because during war times, scarcity forces many things to change!
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Economic Spotter: Resources During Wwii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a lesson plan that deals with scarcity during WWII. Natural, human, and capital resources are discussed.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Henry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study in Productivity (Part 2)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Henry Ford's use of mass production strategies to manufacture the Model T revolutionized industrial manufacturing. This 3-part learning unit provides students with the story of Henry Ford and the Model T from an economics perspective....
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Economics of the Family Farm

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about the status of farming as a career, investigate the management of a family farm, and examine one recent farm crisis in this lesson.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Employer/personnel Issues

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The class will discuss issues relating to employer/personnel. They will work together in groups to write a guide for new employees. They will also create a classroom policy handbook.