This lesson discusses the relationship between interest rates and stock prices, the role of uncertainty in markets.

This scientific article explains the historic, social, and economic implications of the invention of the steam engine. It also discusses how the industrial revolution made manufacturing plants independent from locations next to rivers. The last part describes the nostalgic use of historic steam engines. The text is in child-friendly language and appropriate for children age 8 and up.

In this lesson, students will learn the concepts of goods, services and community. Homework: Interview an adult about his/her job. Two questions to be included in the interview are, ?What do you do at your job?? and ?How does it contribute to the community??

Students listen to the book The Goat in the Rug, about a Navajo weaver named Glenmae who uses mohair from her goat Geraldine and a number of resources and intermediate goods to make a traditional Navajo rug. The students are placed in groups to learn about productive resources and intermediate goods. The students play a matching game and make posters to classify the natural resources, human resources, capital resources, and intermediate goods used in the story to produce the rug

With this lesson, students experience creating a budget and starting a simple business. Students use economic terms as well as experience the market or free-enterprise system.

In this video, an economic education specialist explains what GDP means, how it is calculated, how it is useful in determining whether and how quickly the economy is growing, and how GDP can be used as an indicator of standard of living.

In this lesson, students describe the various ways people save money and explain how people can earn money. Students list the costs of their spending decisions and analyze the trade-offs of various spending and saving decisions.

This resource informs consumers about the dangers of identity theft and ways which consumers can protect themselves before and after it happens.

This lesson introduces students to identity theft and phishing, including common methods used in the crime of identity theft. Students also learn about the consumer protection agency (the FTC) that handles this fast-growing financial crime.

In this lesson, students use data collected from the Internal Revenue Service for the tax year 2003 to become involved in an inquiry of individual federal income taxes.

This resource accompanies our Rethink Kindergarten Social Studies Unit #3. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.

This six-lesson unit corresponds to the book, Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen, with each session related to specific chapters of the book.

This guide outlines the lesson which teaches students comparative shopping techniques to make more effective purchases.

This guide outlines the lesson where students are made aware of the warning signs of financial difficulties.