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Econ Ed Link: Fad or Fortune
This lesson focuses on collectibles and how they retain, lose, or gain value. In each round of a trading simulation, learners will learn more about the value of their collectibles and discuss why items gain or lose value. They will...
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Econ Ed Link: Sand Art Brownies
In this lesson, you will learn about substitute goods. You will have choices to make in your role as a shopper. In making these choices, you will decide whether you are willing to accept one good as a substitute for another or not. Are...
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Econ Ed Link: Agent Pincher: The Case of the Missing Susan B. Anthony Dollar
Agent Penn E. Pincher is again called out on a case. It seems that in 1979 the U.S. Bureau of Engraving launched a new one-dollar coin. However, most citizens haven't seen it in several years. This case may be from the cold case files....
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Econ Ed Link: Agent Pincher: P Is for Penny or Where Did Money Come From?
What if we woke up tomorrow and found that there were no more pennies? Or what if we found that money had disappeared altogether -- not only from our pockets but from banks, stores and all the other places where we would expect to find...
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Econ Ed Link: Cost/benefit Analysis: Three Gorges Dam
This lesson will allow students to evaluate the costs/benefits of the Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River in China. The purpose of this lesson is to encourage students to look at a complex issue from differing viewpoints and to...
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Econ Ed Link: Where's the Beef?
Students explore meat consumption statistics, an indicator of a nation's relative prosperity and standard of living. They do a survey of a family's meat consumption and compare their results to statistics from Colonial and modern- day...
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Econ Ed Link: Lewis and Clark Barter With the Native Americans
Using the study of the Lewis and Clark expedition students will define the term barter and give examples of bartering.
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Econ Ed Link: Who Is Working?
This lesson teaches students what economists mean when they talk about people who are employed, unemployed, and not in the labor force. It discusses the Current Population Survey and asks students to pose as government survey workers to...
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Econ Ed Link: All in Business
This lesson on entrepreneurship can be used to help learners understand what innovations are, and what it takes to get an idea off the ground. This lesson will take students through the process of calculating risks associated with...
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Econ Ed Link: How the Crusades Led to the Finding of the New World
The lesson will help students to discover the importance of the Crusades to the expansion of many European countries. Students will also be introduced to new products and find out why explorers were willing to risk all to locate new...
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Econ Ed Link: It Pays to Stay in School
This lesson examines some of the incentive programs being offered to keep middle schoolers in school
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Econ Ed Link: Why Adopt a Highway?
Students learn about the successful Adopt-a- Highway program and how it can save governments and taxpayers money.
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Econ Ed Link: The Penny Problem
Students will research the cost of making the penny an the use of the penny and come up with reasons why the penny should or should not be continued to be made and used.
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Econ Ed Link: Capital Chips (Part 3)
Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be examined. The benefits from the capital investments of Herr Foods, Inc. will be related to their effect on the...
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Econ Ed Link: Capital Chips (Part 2)
Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be examined. The benefits from the capital investments of Herr Foods, Inc. will be related to their effect on the...
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Econ Ed Link: Capital Chips (Part 1)
Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be examined. The benefits from the capital investments of Herr Foods, Inc. will be related to their effect on the...
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Econ Ed Link: The Need for Money That Everybody Can Use
The U.S. Currency currently has two faces. The old bills are being replaced with new designs. The study of the look of the bills will lead into a discussion of their usefulness for a segment of our population: the visually impaired people.
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Econ Ed Link: A Moo Ving Experience
Students gain an understanding about non-profit organizations and the role they play in our economy. Students then learn about a relatively new type of fundraising effort, known as CowParade, for non- profit organizations that has been...
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Econ Ed Link: The Return of Sacagawea
Sacagawea returned to America last month. Actually, a new golden dollar coin bearing the image of Sacagawea, began circulating last month. It premiered to rave reviews! This new coin features the profile of Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman...
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Econ Ed Link: Where Does the Money Come From?
With very few exceptions, the U.S. federal government does not have an "income" to spend providing goods and services. The money used for federal spending programs must be collected as federal taxes, or it must be borrowed. This...
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Econ Ed Link: The Family Vacation
Students will take a surprise trip around the world. As they travel, they will use clues to discover where they are going. They will then figure out how much money they have spent in U.S. dollars, using exchange rates.
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Econ Ed Link: To Buy or Not to Buy
While precise numbers are not known, it is believed the number of boycotts has grown markedly in the past fifty years. Consumers seem to be besieged by requests from special interest groups to refrain from buying certain goods and...
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Econ Ed Link: Market Ability
Marketplace, a daily economics news program heard on National Public Radio, featured a story on January 8, 2002, titled "Microsoft Invades the Kitchen." In this segment, reporter Aaron Schachter describes consumers' enthusiasm, or lack...
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Econ Ed Link: "Should You Learn to Fly?"
Students will define opportunity cost as they list various career choices and salaries, and calculate future value of money.