Lesson 3: Yours, Mine, Ours: The Rules of Ownership
download EWE Lesson 3 (.doc file) Concepts: Incentives Property Property rights Content Standards: Standard 4: People respond predictably to positive and…
Lesson 2 Activity: Diamonds & Water – A Question of Value
Download Activity 2: Teacher Guide, Handouts, Visuals (.doc file) Time Required: 2-3 class periods Materials: Jump ropes, hula hoops,…
Lesson 2: Waste Is in the Eye of the Beholder
download EWE Lesson 2 (.doc file) Concepts Choices Supply Incentives Prices Scarcity Content Standards: Standard 4: People respond predictably to positive…
Lesson 1: When Is a Basketball a Substitute for Water?
download EWE Lesson1 (.doc file) Concepts Choices Incentives Law of demand Content Standards: Standard 4: People respond predictably to positive and…
Introduction to Economics, Water Use and the Environment
download EWE Introduction (.doc file) Overview Economics, Water Use, and the Environment is comprised of seven lessons designed to help students…
Lesson 7 Activity: The Pearl River – Water In or Water Out?
Download Lesson 7 Activity: Teacher Guide, Handouts, Visuals (.doc file) Concepts: Scarcity, choices and opportunity cost Cooperation through markets Property rights…
Lesson 5: The Tragedy of the Commons
download EWE Lesson 5 (.doc file) Concepts: Incentives Property rights Tragedy of the commons Content Standards: Standard 10: Institutions evolve…
Lesson 5: Are Disasters “A Disaster” for Lesson Planning?
download EOD lesson 5 outline (including source citations and links) Teaching About the Next Disaster The concepts, models, and analytical…
Lesson 3: When Disaster Strikes, What Can Government Do?
download EOD Lesson 3 Outline (including graphs and source citations) Concepts: incentives public choice thoery public good bureaucracy comparative advantage…
Lesson 2 Activity: Nobody Knows Everything
download Nobody Knows Everything activity guide download Powerpoint slides Lesson Overview Based on television game shows in which contestants are pitted against…
Lesson 2 Activity: The Market for Thingamajigs – Price Gouging?
download Market for Thingamajigs activity guide, including handouts download pdf version of game handouts Introduction: Understanding how markets work and…
Lesson 2: When Disaster Strikes, What Can Markets Do?
download EOD Lesson 2 Outline (including graphs and source citations) Concepts scarcity price incentive supply supply shock determinants of supply demand…
Lesson 1: Are Disasters Good for the Economy?
download EOD lesson 1 outline including graphs and source citations Concepts: human capital economic growth technology physical capital per capita…
Lesson 6: Applying the Lessons of the Soviet Union
Assessment: A Brief History of the Post Office (As Told By Grandpa McCoy) “You kids these days have it so…
Lesson 5: Transaction Costs – Life in a Soviet Household
Key Economic Concept: Transaction Costs Related concepts: Incentives Markets Opportunity Cost Prices Secondary Markets Creation of wealth Content Standards and…
Lesson 4: Property Rights
Concepts: Property Rights Private property Incentives Collectivization Profits Tragedy of the Commons Content Standards and Benchmarks (4, 10 and 16):…
Lesson 3: Incentives Matter
Concepts: People respond to incentives. Entrepreneur Innovation Profit Productivity Competition Content Standards and Benchmarks (4 and 14): Standard 4: People…
Lesson 2: Missing Markets and Missing Prices
Concepts: Markets provide information in the form of prices. Opportunity cost Prices Information costs Investment Demand and Supply Markets Competition…