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. …
Lesson 5: Land Ordinances and Western Movement
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1. A key to understanding people’s behavior is figuring out the incentives they face. 2. …
Lesson 4: Innovation, Education, and Information
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1. A key to understanding people’s behavior is figuring out the incentives they face. 2. …
Lesson 3: The Constitution as an Economic Document
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1. A key to understanding people’s behavior is figuring out the incentives they face.…
Lesson 2: Births, Deaths, and Economic Growth
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1. A key to understanding people’s behavior is figuring out the incentives they face. ECONOMIC…
Lesson 1: The Market for Moving People to America
KEY FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 1. A key to understanding people’s behavior is figuring out the incentives they face. 2.…
Activity 8: Women and Work in American History – The Opportunity Cost of Staying Home
Lesson Overview Of the many profound changes in American society during the 20th century, those in the roles of women…
Activity 7: The Great Depression – A Family’s Choices
Lesson Overview: In this simulation, students play the role of families in a small town, trying to deal with the…
Activity 6: Show Me the Money! A Fractional Reserve Banking Simulation
Lesson Overview Fractional Reserve Banking is a fundamental part of all modern economies. First introduced in Europe in the 16th…
Activity 5: A Question of Trust
Lesson Overview The purpose of “A Question of Trust” is to let students simulate the origins of the era of…
Activity 4: The Oklahoma Land Rush – Property Rights on the American Frontier
Lesson Overview What would life be like if we could own things just by claiming them on a first-come-first-served basis?…
Activity 3: Transaction Costs and Currency – 1808 Road Trip
Lesson Overview Students are given a “purse” containing one of four types of bank notes and are sent off on…
Activity 2: Indentured Servitude – A Colonial Market for Labor
Lesson Overview The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate to students, using the context of colonial markets for indentured…
Activity 1: Property Rights and U.S. History – Jamestown Simulation
Lesson Overview In this lesson the class will simulate the experience at Jamestown before and after the arrival of Sir…
Lesson 7: International Monetary Exchange
Concepts Currency exchange Exchange rate Floating exchange rates Demand Supply Market clearing price Transaction cost Content Standards Standard 6: Students…
Lesson 7 Activity: Foreign Currencies and Foreign Exchange
Overview Many international exchanges of goods and services are facilitated by the exchange of the currencies of the trading countries. …
Lesson 6 Activity: The Balance of Trade Among States
Concepts Balance of payments Export Trade deficit Capital account Import Trade surplus Current account Content Standards Standard 5: Students will…