Lesson 4: When Disaster Strikes, What Can We Do?
Concepts: comparative advantage incentives competition Federal Reserve System money liquidity personal exchange commercial (impersonal) exchange Content Standards: Standard 6: When…
Lesson 3: When Disaster Strikes, What Can Government Do?
Concepts: incentives public choice thoery public good bureaucracy comparative advantage moral hazard Standards: Standard 4: People respond predictably to positive…
Lesson 2 Activity: The Market for Thingamajigs – Price Gouging?
Introduction: Understanding how markets work and the role of prices within markets is an important key to being able to…
Lesson 2 Activity: Nobody Knows Everything
Lesson Overview Based on television game shows in which contestants are pitted against an audience group, this activity is designed…
Lesson 2: When Disaster Strikes, What Can Markets Do?
Concepts scarcity price incentive supply supply shock determinants of supply demand consumption (demand) shock determinants of demand price controls price…
Lesson 1 Activity: Are Disasters Good for the Economy?
Time Required: 1 class period Materials: visuals #1- 6 (#7 optional) copies of student handouts: Clues (Visual #6) – 1 set…
Lesson 1: Are Disasters Good for the Economy?
Concepts: human capital economic growth technology physical capital per capita GDP productivity Production Possibilities Frontier real income resources Content Standards:…
Lesson 1: Opportunity Cost
Concepts: Opportunity Cost Scarcity Capital Goods Choice Consumer Goods Communism Content Standards and Benchmarks (1, 3 and 15): Standard 1:…
Lesson 16: Protectionism vs. Globalization
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 2. Economic freedom, rule of law, and well-defined property rights promote growth and prosperity. 4. …
Lesson 14: The Rise of Big Government
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1. A key to understanding people’s behavior is figuring out the incentives they face. 2. Economic freedom,…
Lesson 13: Immigrants and the American Workforce
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1. A key to understanding people’s behavior is figuring out the incentives they face. 2. …
Lesson 12: Wars and the Economy
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1. A key to understanding people’s behavior is figuring out the incentives they face. 2. …
Lesson 10: The Great Depression
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1. A key to understanding people’s behavior is figuring out the incentives they face. 3. …
Lesson 9: Entrepreneurship and Innovation
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1. A key to understanding people’s behavior is figuring out the incentives they face.…
Lesson 8: The Political Economy of Emancipation
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1. A key to understanding people’s behavior is figuring out the incentives they face.…
Lesson 7b: Money and Monetary Policy
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 2. Economic freedom, rule of law, and well-defined property rights promote growth and prosperity. 3. …
Lesson 7a: Banking and Bank Regulation
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1. A key to understanding people’s behavior is figuring out the incentives they face. 3. …
Lesson 6: The Transportation Revolution and Formation of the National Economy
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1. A key to understanding people’s behavior is figuring out the incentives they face. 2. …