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Interactive
National Geographic

National Geographic: Interdependence

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use this interactive to explore how interconnected the global economy is. After creating a character, gather some clothes together and enter their origin information into your database. Then look at your own interdependence map and...
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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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Interactive
Council for Economic Education

Econedlink: Trade, Exchange and Interdependence

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This video teaches the concept of Trade, Exchange and Interdependence. People do not make everything that they and their family use: that is, they do not grow all their own food, sew their own clothes, build their own house and provide...
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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: 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.
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Activity
Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Made in the u.s.a.: Economic, Geography

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Site presents activities, that are fun and innovative. These tasks will assist students in their understanding of how the economics of manufacturing effects the student's daily life.