Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market

This bundle can be used for an economics class that is one semester long, as it has students analyze aspects of economic thinking, personal finance, businesses, and the stock market. Here is a rough pacing guide for the bundle:

Weeks 1-2: Introducing students to thinking like an economist and understanding basic frameworks for the economy.

(Resources 1-8)

Weeks 3-4: Introducing students to the first unit about their personal finance in the future. Students brainstorm and research their ideal career and then learn how taxes impact their income.

(Resources 9-13)

Weeks 4-5: Helping students make a budget using their post-tax take home pay, and then learning about other ways to manage a budget including insurance, credit, and bank loans.

(Resources 14-16)

Week 6: Teaching students about how housing and real estate work as investment opportunities while also learning about how the government can help people struggling with all their income and budgetary needs.

(Resources 17-19)

Week 7: This is where students shift into the business unit and begin understanding how the private sector functions and they start brainstorming a business idea they'd like to create.

(Resources 20-22)

Weeks 8-9: Students learn how their business can be impacted by supply shifters and demand determinants (like using marketing to impact their revenues) and also risks that can affect any business.

(Recourses 23-25)

Weeks 9-10: Students work on creating their own businesses and then do a business networking activity where they try to build collaborating and mutual benefits among their businesses.

(Resources 26-27)

Weeks 11-12: Students shift to understand more macroeconomic trends in the economy, including laissez-faire, supply-side, and demand-side economics, plus an exploration into the concepts of capitalism, socialism, and communism, and finally looking at policies of Democrats and Republicans and how they are focused on more or less government intervention in the economy.

(Resources 28-30)

Week 13: Introduction to the stock market and how to analyze a stock in terms of the share price and the stock's unique value proposition.

(Resources 31-34)

Week 14: Analyzing a stock based on the morality of the company and the financials of the stock.

(Resources 35-36)

Week 15: Understanding sectors of the economy and then spending time analyzing mutual funds and ETFs

(Resources 37-38)

Week 16: Final project that is student-directed about the economics of drugs.

(Resource 39)

They are all formatted for google classroom as Microsoft Word documents, so they can be edited to your own needs.