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E.R.P. #2

Hot Topic Lesson: The US Airline Industry…Fight or Flight!?

By Greg Caskey,  January 2018 INTRODUCTION: “It’s time to level the flying field. Spread the word to help enforce Open…

Creative Destruction

The Bread Market!

Download Bread Market Teacher Guide, Handouts and Visuals doc file (or pdf). An emergent order activity to accompany the poem and…

Budget Deficit/Surplus

Lesson 5: Debts, Deficits, and Debasement: Using Public Choice Economics to Understand Public Debt

Download Lesson 5, Activity and Handouts Download Activity Slides Lesson Overview In this lesson, students take on the roles of…

Budget Deficit/Surplus

Lesson 1: Our National Debt

Download Lesson 1, Activity, and Handouts Lesson Overview The national debt is growing by more than a trillion dollars per…

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Activity: AI or HI: Artificial Intelligence vs Human Ingenuity

In this interactive and fast-paced activity, students will work in teams to solve a variety of challenges across subjects like…

Competition

Missing Markets and Missing Prices

Lesson Overview In this activity, production ministers must allocate resources to the production of 2 products and set prices for…

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Economic Reasoning Propositions

The Foundation for Teaching Economics’ Economic Reasoning Propositions are a guide to the economic way of thinking.  The “E.R.P.s” provide…

Conclusion and Caveats

 Download Caveats and Conclusions .doc file , including source citations Overview The purpose of this unit is to provide data and…

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Past Webinars

A Hard, Soft or No Landing?: Examining the American Economy Speaker: Dr. Scott Baier, Professor and Chair of the John…

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FTE MobLab Activities

FTE has partnered with MobLab so you can run your favorite classroom activities virtually! With an easy-to-use platform, step-by-step instructions…