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Worksheet
Federal Reserve Bank

Choices Are Everywhere: Why Can’t We Just Have It All?

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Here is a resource covering a range of terms and concepts regarding scarcity, opportunity cost, and government debt in economics. 
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Lesson Plan
iCivics

I Civics: Government Spending

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on a variety of topics related to government spending, including the federal budget, mandatory versus discretionary spending, and government debt.
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Interactive
The Economist

The Economist: The Global Debt Clock

For Students 9th - 10th
Our interactive overview of government debt across the planet.
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Graphic
Other

Metrocosm: How We Share the World

For Students 9th - 10th
In this geographic interactive, students can visualize the world via the following six ways: GDP, government debt, population, births, wealth and billionaires.