LESSON PLAN: Units vs. Mass Production - An Edible Economics Activity - GRADE 3-8
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An Exercise on the Division of Labor comparing Mass Production versus Unit Production for grades 3-8.
Apr 15, 2018
VIDEO: History of Transportation in Hawaii - GRADE 5-9
This video focuses on the history of transportation on Oahu - from walking to canoes to steam engines to the modern rail.. LINK
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Jan 15, 2017
LESSON PLAN: Productivity and the Model T Ford - GRADE 6-12
In this lesson plan students will; (i) describe how Henry Ford’s Model T assembly line increased productivity and lowered production...
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Jan 15, 2016
LESSON PLAN: Classifying Productive Resources - GRADE 7-12
An exercise where students differentiate between Land, Labor, and Capital for grades 7-12.
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Jan 15, 2015
LESSON PLAN: What's the Relationship? - GRADE 8-12
This activity is a discovery lesson designed to help students determine the relationship between unemployment and economic growth through...
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Jan 15, 2015
LESSON PLAN: CPI and Correcting Income for Inflation - GRADE 8-12
An exercise on how to correct prices for inflation for grades 8-12.
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Jan 15, 2015
VIDEO: It's a Wonderful Loaf - GRADE 9-12
A video about the wonder of market coordination through prices. For grades 9-12. LINK
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Jan 15, 2015
LESSON PLAN: Productivity - GRADE 8-12
Exercise to define and compute productivity for grades 8-12.
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Jan 15, 2014
VIDEO: Historical Growth in Wealth and Living Standards - GRADE 9-12
Celebrated economic historian Dr. Stephen Davies looks at the economic conditions of modernity (which have resulted in at least a 10-fold...
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Jan 15, 2013
VIDEO: What If There Were No Prices? - GRADE 10-12
A video explaining how market prices aggregate information across the entire economy, allowing market actors to make rational decisions...
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Jan 15, 2013
LESSON PLAN: Economic Coordination and the Free Market - GRADE 10-12
Lesson plan demonstrating the advantages of using the free market to organize economic activity. For grades 10-12.
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Jan 15, 2012
LESSON PLAN: Aggregate Demand-Aggregate Supply - GRADE 11-12
This activity is designed to give students practice in analyzing the effects of changes in aggregate demand and supply on the levels of...
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Jan 15, 2012
VIDEO: What Made the Modern World? - GRADE 11-12
Celebrated economic historian Dr. Stephen Davies recounts economic growth over the past 200 years (a 10-fold increase in average global...
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Jan 15, 2012
VIDEO: What Do Prices Know That You Don't? - GRADE 11-12
A video demonstrating how market prices usefully summarize relevant economic information that would be unobtainable to market actors by...
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