The Economics of Interest Rates This site explores the role interest plays in everyday spending and saving decisions. You will also learn about the rela http: //econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson...
President Bush's Allowance Today you will pretend that you are the President of the United States. The President is one person who helps to make the federal budget. In this activity, you will decide how the federal government should spend tax revenue for our country.. http: //econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson...
The President’s Dilemma The President's Dilemma unit presents students with an economy that has innumerable difficulties for government to solve http: //bie.org/index.php/site/PBE/presidents_d...
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Frontier Town You will pick a market in your own community. Then you will classify it as a fast food restaurant, a hotel/motel, a grocery store, or another type of business. You will name other businesses that are in competition with the market you chose. http: //econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson...
The Great Awakening This lively unit teaches the sometimes-difficult economic concept of comparative advantage, and can be a springboard for the study of current issues in international trade http: //bie.org/index.php/site/PBE/great_awaken...
Lean on Me -- We depend on each other! In this lesson, you will learn about specialization and why assembly lines are used. You will learn how people who produce goods can save money by dividing big tasks up into smaller ones.. http: //econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson...
Taxation without Representation? This lesson asks you to explore some of those taxes, discuss the reasons the English government had for creating them, and debate whether the colonists should have had to pay them. http: //econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson...
Who Is Working? In this lesson, you will learn what economists mean when they talk about people who are working and people who are not working.. http: //econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson...
