LESSON PLAN: Four Feet, Two Sandals - GRADE 3-5
This lesson requires two class periods. In the first class period, students are asked to think of a way to decide who gets 100 pennies...
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Jan 15, 2017
VIDEO: What is Capitalism? - GRADE 6-12
This video describes what is meant by the term 'Free-Market Capitalism.' LINK
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Jan 15, 2016
LESSON PLAN: What is Profit? - GRADE 7-12
An exercise to help students understand what profit is. Suitable for grades 7-12.
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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, 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
VIDEO: I, Pencil - GRADE 10-12
A video explaining Leonard E. Read's 1958 essay "I, Pencil", which describes the seeming miracle of economic cooperation brought about by...
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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: Traditional, Market, and Command Economic Systems - GRADE 11-12
An exercise to help students understand the differences between Traditional, Market, and Command economic systems and how each operates....
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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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