Download Economic Themes

Economic Themes for Book Projects
Entrepreneurship and Business
Globalization and the Global Economy
Citizens as Consumers
21st Century Economics and Cyber Economics (could be two)
Money and Personal Finance
Role and Responsibility of Government in Economics
Basic concepts list (with definitions) http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Economics_Basic_Concepts.htm
List of 51 concepts tied to standards:
http://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/HighSchool/KeyConcepts.html
Lesson: What Are the Economic Functions Of Government?
Concepts: economics, civics, economic functions of government
From Focus on Economics: Civics and Government
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/fecga.htm
Lesson: Why Nations Trade
Concepts: economics, geography, opportunity cost, absolute advantage, comparative advantage,
specialization, terms of trade
From Focus on Economics: Geography
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/FEOG1.htm
Lesson: Limiting Trade
Concepts: economics, geography, tariffs, quotas, embargoes, licensing requirements, standards
(health and safety), subsidies, infant industry, strategic industry, exports, imports, terms of trade
From Focus on Economics: Geography
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/feoga.htm
Lesson: Places and Production
Concepts: economics, geography, gross domestic product (GDP), choropleth map, measure
of value, double counting, final goods and services, flow of product, consumer spending
From Focus on Economics: Geography
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/feogx.htm
Lesson: What Is a Stock? or Who Owns McDonalds?
Concepts: economize, ownership, profit, risk, social studies, language arts
From Learning for the Market: Integrating the Stock Market Game Across the Curriculum
|http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/mark1.htm
Reading: How Can Entrepreneurs Control Costs?
Concepts: business, accounting, economics, fixed costs, variable costs
From Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Economy
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/euse1.htm
Lesson: How Can Big Business Make Money From Tariffs?
Concepts: economics, American history, incentives, tariffs, special interest groups
From Focus on Economics: U. S. History
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/feus1.htm
Lesson: Prohibition Then; MADD Today
Concepts: economics, American history, choice, costs/benefits, incentives, externalities
(social consequences)
From Focus on Economics: U. S. History
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/feusA.htm
Lesson: Andersonville Prison: An Economic Microcosm
Concepts: American history, scarcity, economic wants, markets, prices, economic
systems, command economy, market economy
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/lesson2.htm
Lesson on The Economic Value of Education: Is the Tassel Worth the Hassle?
Concepts: consumer economics, choice, opportunity cost, incentives
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/lesson15.htm
Lesson on Privatizing Schools: Schools For Sale
Concepts: economics, government, public goods, incentives, private goods, economic efficiency,
costs
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/lesson19.htm
Demand and Supply On-line
Concepts: economics, demand, supply, equilibrium, income, prices, diminishing marginal utility
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/Dem_Sup/demand.htm
Lesson: Child Labor Laws (Grades 9-12)
Concepts: Cost-benefit analysis, Progressive Era
From: Maryland Council on Economic
Educationhttp://www.econed.org/userfiles/files/data/Child%20Labor%20in%20Maryland%20%20An%20Historical%20Investigation%20.pdf
Lesson: Crossing Borders: The Globalization Debate (Grades 9-12)
Concepts: Benefits, Costs, Globalization
From: Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louishttp://www.stlouisfed.org/education_resources/assets/lesson_plans/08ITV_Globalization.pdf
Lesson: Currency and the Fed (Grades 8-12)
Concepts: Currency features and history, Federal Reserve System, Functions of money
From: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
http://www.stlouisfed.org/education_resources/assets/lesson_plans/Currency&Fed.pdf
Lesson: The Economic Way of Thinking (Grades 9-12)
Concepts: Consumers, Cost-benefit analysis, Incentives, Producers, Saving, Scarcity
From: Foundation for Teaching Economics http://www.fte.org/teacher-resources/lessonplans/rslessons/the-economic-way-of-thinking/
Lesson: Who Desegregated Major League Baseball: Adam Smith or Jackie Robinson?
(Grades 9-12)
Concepts: Competition, Cartel, “Invisible Hand”, Labor Market, Monopoly, Monopsony, Profit, Market
From: Economic Episodes in American History
http://www.wohlpublishing.com/economicepisodes/EEAH_Ch_25.pdf
Lesson collection: Personal Finance Education for Teens (Grades 9-12)
Concepts: Personal Finance, Decision Making, Spending, Selected Spending Topics
From: Incharge.org
http://www.incharge.org/money-101/money-tools-for-teachers/teens