PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Widows in Israel
In this Wide Angle video, meet the widowed women of a village in the Galilee who overcame societal expectations and started their own business.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Entrepreneurship
In this instructional activity, students become entrepreneurs and they will create a community of businesses by selling goods and services for profit. This instructional activity requires students to work in groups. Each group will have...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Owe, I Owe, So Off to Work I Go!
Students often attend college and are faced with the mounting debt incurred from student loans. This lesson plan will guide through calculating repayment for students loans, preparing a monthly budget, and researching options for...
Other
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo is a "diversified financial services company that provides a broad range of banking, asset banking, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking products and services." Includes information on the company and its...
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Consumer Protection Project
The media fills us in on the most recent scams around town and the nation. Taking part in this project will educated students on the scams that are out there and question the rights consumers have and the role governments should take in...
Other
Co Op America
The Co-op America foundation is a non-profit organization that focuses on fair economic practices to teach social and environmental responsibility. Their many programs such as Green Business, Green Energy, Fair Trade, Responsible Shopper...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Don't Buy It: Get Media Smart!: Create a Pop Star
Follow the story line to create a pop star. You must make good financial choices to achieve success. You can also quiz yourself about commercials and other uses of music.
University of Texas at Austin
Francais Interactif Money, Finance & Investments
Extensive vocabulary lists of all things financial. Video and audio clips to utilize vocab in context. Has interviews in French and links to internet activities and salient grammar points.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Competition Pizza
A lesson that teaches about competition in the marketplace that uses student-gathered information about businesses where they live. Includes student activities and links to national standards in economics and personal finance.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: If You're Working With My Money
In this lesson, students will handle money by opening a cash fund, arranging the money in a cash drawer, make change, and reconcile the cash drawer at the end of a business day. After learning the procedure for handling and reconciling...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Can I Afford This House?
In this lesson, students will prepare a spreadsheet that provides information about purchasing a house. Using functions and formulas, they will determine if they can afford the house. This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson...
Other
Biz Kids: Bring Home the Bacon
Bring Home the Bacon is an exciting interactive way to learn the concept of supply and demand. More demand, more customers, but don't get too carried away because upgrading your investments might be worth the wait!
Other
Junior Achievement Canada
This organization offers programs for youth to help them understand about business and how to start one. It also offers in-school presentations. They have chapters all across Canada.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
The picture book One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, written by Kate Smith Milway, takes place in Africa. Here in a Ghanan village, young Kojo cannot afford to go to school after the death of his father. His resourceful...
Other
Co Op America
The Co-op America foundation is a non-profit organization that focuses on fair economic practices to teach social and environmental responsibility. Their many programs such as Green Business, Green Energy, Fair Trade, Responsible Shopper...
Other
123 Jump
This site provides a vast amount of information from which students can research investment options. The focus is on IPOs (Initial Public Offering). Presents a great learning opportunity for students interested in finance.
Other
Maryland Council on Economic Education (Mcee)
"Comprised of leaders in business, agriculture, government, and education from around the State," the site fosters economic education. Major emphasis here is on awards programs and their winners.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Pricing a Job
Learn how to calculate a fair price for a service. You'll be exploring calculations of direct cost, overhead, profit and more. The answers you give to the lesson questions will receive immediate feedback.
University of Nebraska
Nebraska Council on Economic Education (Ncee)
The NCEE's mission is to "improve school economic education programs throughout Nebraska." Its website provides information on the organization and resources for the classroom teacher.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Income Budgeting
This site contains a unit on budgeting money for use by middle school teachers. Includes enrichment problems, a bibliography, and many example problems and situations.
PBS
Pbs Nova: Play a Virtual Market
Use this site to trade traditional stocks and learn how trading stocks in the market can increase your wealth (or decrease it too!)
PBS
Pbs Lesson Plan: What the World Consumes
These visual, easy-to-grasp lessons in world economics and consumerism features lessons and related videos in which students experience first-hand the economic dilemmas faced by other countries and are asked to examine their own values...
Other
Foundation for Teaching Economics
The Foundation for Teaching Economics provides lesson plans and curriculum materials in a variety of areas of economics. Games and exercises enhance the lessons provided. Teachers can search by keywords or choose lessons from the list...
The Economist
The Economist: Economist: Economics a Z Term
This is a glossary of economics terms. Click on the first letter of the term you are looking for.