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Lesson Plan
National Geographic

National Geographic: Society: The Trading Game

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students simulate the trading of goods between countries. Then they reflect on the challenges of trade between countries.
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Economic Connections [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
"Economic Connections" is a one-page nonfiction passage about the economics of importing and exporting goods among countries to get what people need. It is followed by an open-ended question that requires students to provide evidence...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Economic Incentives in Our Community

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will identify positive and negative economic incentives used in their communities to encourage people to make CHOICES beneficial to the community. Students will recognize that not all incentives convince all people since people...
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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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Activity
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Lean on Me We Depend on Each Other

For Teachers K - 1st
Check out this website to learn more about the economy, specialization, and the reasons assembly lines are used.
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Website
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Incentives Video and Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Economics website with video [1:35] and interactive quiz teaches about costs, benefits, and incentives.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Trade to the Tailor: Student Version

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students can use this site online in conjuction with the teacher's lesson plan, "Trade to the Tailor."
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Are Incentives?

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars will understand that incentives are used to encourage them to make good choices. After identifying incentives offered at home and in school, the students will distinguish between positive and negative incentives.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Inventive Incentive

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
There are many ways in which people are rewarded or penalized for doing, or not doing, their work. These are known as incentives.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Incentives Influence Us

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Find out more about the concept of incentives in our economy through this lesson plan. "You will identify incentives used at home and school."
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Mystery of Is It Mine or Ours?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will learn that people respond predictably to positive incentives (rewards) and negative incentives (penalties). They will identify incentives in their daily lives at home and school. Students will discuss which incentives have...
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Website
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Positive and Negative Incentives

For Students 3rd - 8th
Website with video and links to related resources exploring positive and negative incentives and choice in the economy.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Hawaiian Economics: Barter for Fish & Poi

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Use this lesson to learn more about the Hawaiian economics system. Learn how they developed and used this specialized type of money system. "In this lesson, you will learn how specialization and division of labor increased productivity...
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Activity
The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute: Bartering for Goods

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Franklin Institute Online explains what bartering is and how it developed down through history. A lesson plan and quiz are also provided.