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Economics independent work packets for Microsoft Word
Economics and Personal Finance (EPF) - Unit 1 - Economic Basics - Notes Packet
This packet has everything students need for this Unit to correspond with the PowerPoint for this Unit. Please watch the video on the POWERPOINT for this Unit to see all the content covered for this unit. This unit covers: What is economics, Scarcity and Resources, The Problem of Scarcity, Division and Specialization of Labor, Why the division of Labor increase production, Types of Economic Systems and Governments, Traditional Economy, Command Economy, Market Economy, Mixed Economy, Concept of O
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â ECONOMICS AND PERSONAL FINANCE (EPF) - WHOLE COURSE by Just Add Teacher
Types of Insurance Worksheet (Distance Learning)
This handout/worksheet is all about how insurance works, showing students the basics of premiums, coverage, and deductibles. Then, it shows students all the different types of insurance and asks them some analysis questions about which policyholders should be charged higher or lower rates (and why). This generates a RICH class debate, because students really have some strong opinions about which policyholders should have lower or higher rates and it really hits at the conflict between fairness,
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
A Beautiful Mind Movie Guide and Questions
This sheet is a set of video questions for students to fill out and answer as they view the film, A Beautiful Mind. The film is the story of Nobel Prize Winning Economist John Nash and his battle with Schizophrenia. This is an amazing film and can be used in Psychology, Sociology, Economics or Math Classes. The questions are short answer and are designed to keep students focused on the most important aspects of the film. At the end of the sheet, I have retyped the speech that Dr. Nash gives when
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
TED Talk: Can a Divided America Heal?- Jonathan Haidt
Description: Engage your students in a thought-provoking exploration of the current state of political discourse with this TED Talk-inspired assignment. Based on the insightful conversation between Jonathan Haidt and Chris Anderson, this assignment challenges students to think critically about the factors contributing to political polarization and offers avenues for building empathy and understanding across ideological divides.Key Features:Critical Thinking: Encourage students to analyze the tri
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
TED Talk: Our Century’s Greatest Injustice- Sheryl WuDunn
Description: Engage your students in a thought-provoking discussion with these 10 insightful questions based on the TED Talk "The Global Challenge of Gender Inequity." This TED Talk explores the enormous scale and importance of gender inequity, taking viewers on a journey to remote areas of China, Uganda, and beyond, to highlight the transformative power of education and economic opportunity for women and girls. These questions are designed to deepen students' understanding of the challenges fac
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Car Buying Project
Car buying project I use in my Econ/Personal Finance Class. This is a web based project that guides the student in finding a car, calculating the monthly payments, choosing an insurance plan and then has them summarize all of their information into a slideshow presentation.
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Straight Line Depreciation Method Practice Problems and Solutions
These three multi-step questions are designed to help students practice the straight line depreciation method, accumulated depreciation and net book value (NBV) concepts.Detailed solutions assist the educator work through the problem solutions step by step to ensure full understanding of the concepts presented.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Depreciation Accounting Methods Bundle
Causes of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain
This assignment takes students through the five characteristics of Great Britain (Coal, Iron/Steel, Labor, Capital, and Waterways) that helped Great Britain develop its industrial revolution before other nations. It has 8 analysis questions throughout, including a final analysis question. It is formatted for google classroom and will work well for both in-person or remote learning or digital learning.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â European History (Ancient Greece to the Fall of the USSR)
Factors of Economic Growth Brazil Cuba Mexico Simple Worksheet Answer Key
Introducing a concise and straightforward worksheet for exploring the factors influencing economic growth in Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico! This activity provides a brief yet comprehensive overview of key concepts, making it perfect for introducing sixth-grade students to the topics. With just 13 questions covering literacy rates, investment in human and capital goods, natural resources, entrepreneurship, and more, this resource offers a quick and easy way to familiarize students with essential econo
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Not Grade Specific
Savings and Budgeting Money Practice
A fun activity to introduce savings and budgeting to students. The prices and taxes are specific to Central Florida, but you may edit the place names if necessary.
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7th - 12th
Types of taxes, marginal tax brackets, deductions, credits (Distance Learning)
This handout is all about taxes! First students learn about the IRS and tax fraud/evasion. Then they learn about several types of taxes: income, FICA, sales, property, capital gains, and estate taxes. Then, they learn about marginal tax brackets. Next, they learn about the different types of tax deductions and tax credits. Then they learn about 3 types of tax forms (W4/W9, W2/1099, and tax returns). Finally, they learn about how making an LLC or S-Corporation can lower your tax bill. All through
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
Inflation is on Purpose
New! This lesson is an introduction to the topic of inflation, explaining what it is, why it happens, and highlighting the fact that the current banking system guarantees these increases. It introduces ideas such as fiat money, purchasing power, fractional reserve banking, reserve currency, as well as the idea that inflation is actually an additional tax. It looks at historical examples of hyperinflation, as well as the reality that, since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, the US dol
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9th - 12th
Income/Wealth Inequality and Government Help
This handout first has students learn about the causes of wealth and income inequality in the U.S. and then examine several methods that governments can use to alleviate and solve this inequality. The solutions range from supply-side to demand-side solutions, with an explanation of supply-side economics, demand-side economics, and laissez-faire capitalism. It is formatted for google classroom. This handout has given my students fodder for some of the richest debates in economics class, and can l
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
After Highschool Planning
DIRECTIONS: In this activity, think about possible plans that you could have after high school. I want you to identify five possible plans. These plans could include topics such as entering straight into the workforce, community college, trade school, military, or even just five different colleges that you are considering attending. For each of the five possible plans that you identified, complete the attached charts.
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9th - 12th
Budget to Avoid Debt
In this activity, you will imagine yourself earning the average salary for a high school graduate in Illinois. This salary is $33,230 a year or $2,769 a month. Knowing your monthly salary, you will be asked to buy a car, buy a house, and groceries while maintaining your 50(Needs)/30(Wants)/20(Savings) budget. Hint: Remember not to spend more than 30% of your budget on housing, you do not want to go house broke.
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9th - 12th
Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Capitalism, Socialism, Communism
This assignment should come towards the end of your industrial revolution unit. It challenges students to use what they have already learned about industrialization and urbanization to evaluate and analyze Adam Smith's ideas and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' ideas. It includes some primary source excerpts from the Wealth of Nations and Das Capital, but all the questions are analysis. The point is for students to understand the theories of laissez-faire capitalism, the invisible hand, socialism
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â U.S. Foreign Policy Bundle
Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) (Distance Learning)
This is a long handout that introduces students to the idea of a mutual fund, an index fund, and an exchange-traded fund. The idea is for students to understand how mutual funds allow one to have a diverse investing portfolio without doing all the work of researching hundreds of stocks on their own. It also shows students how to find and compare ETFs to choose one that would be the best to invest in. I suggest having students complete this after finishing the handout below, which is about how to
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
The Law of Demand Powerpoint Notes
This is a worksheet that goes with my Law of Demand Slideshow. There are 20 questions on the worksheet that follow along with the slideshow.
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9th - 12th
How Government Connects to My Daily Life (Distance Learning)
This handout takes students through a day in their life (it is New York City centric, where we have public sanitation, buses, and subways) and explains how government services and regulations are present at all times. Students are asked to write questions they have about each government service OR to explain if they think government should or should not be doing this, and why. It is formatted for google classroom. This one handout has yielded several days worth of discussion and debate about the
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Law and Justice Curriculum
Personal Finance - Credit - Worksheet
This is a great worksheet/packet to help students understand credit.This includes 5 situations where you have to decide if the person should or shouldn't use credit.It deals with how to build creditIt looks at the difference between character, capital, and capacityIt looks at the difference between single payment credit, installment credit, and revolving creditIt also has some true/false questions and some short answer questionsThen finishes with situations for the students to answer questions a
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Fads & Demand: How Do They Connect?
Have students think back to fads from their childhood and connect them to what they know about demand.
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9th - 12th
Also included in:Â Supply & Demand Unit Assignments
Hypothetical Scenarios of Demand
Ask students to use the determinants of demand to create scenarios where demand goes up or down.
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9th - 12th
Also included in:Â Supply & Demand Unit Assignments
Shark Tank Economics Viewing Guide Rationale/Vocabulary/Viewing Form/Shark Bios
Watching the television show "Shark Tank" can be a useful and entertaining way for students in an economics class to learn about entrepreneurship, business strategy, and investment.Shark Tank Economics Viewing Guide INCLUDES:Rationale/Vocabulary/Viewing Form/Shark Bios
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â 100 High School Economics Movie/Documentary Viewing Guides BUNDLE
A Growing Economy: United States
Economic growth includes the invention of the cotton gin, the creation of factories, and the migration to big cities. An article, guided reading activity, quiz, and answer keys. Great for independent work packets for students to work on during substitutes.
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6th - 8th
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Simulation Activities
You can introduce students to the world of investing, budgeting, and other economics-related activities through simulations. For example, have students research companies they want to "invest" in to show them how the stock market works. If you want to extend the lesson, you can have them periodically check in on their portfolios throughout the year to see how their investments are performing. Or, you could use a simulation to teach them about causes that led up to certain major historical events, like the stock market crash of 1929.
Budgeting Exercises
Help students understand the importance of managing their own financial resources by challenging them to create a budget. Give them a few hypothetical scenarios involving income, expenses, and financial goals. For example, you could ask them to plan a fictional character's monthly expenses, or have them create a budget to save for buying a house.
Trade Games
Through trading games, students can learn about importing and exporting, along with the impact of external forces and trade agreements. Ask students to work in teams and have them trade goods, record their imports and exports, and respond to charges (like tariffs and embargoes).
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Give students a real-world decision to make (e.g., building a new road, investing in a new technology, or buying property) and have them perform a cost-benefit analysis. To deepen the learning, you can ask them to justify their decisions with evidence.
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What is economics?
The study of economics is a social science that focuses on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. When teaching economics, the goal is to help students understand how individuals, businesses, governments, and societies make choices about resource allocation. Economics explores various topics related to this, including supply and demand, cost and benefits, and scarcity, to name just a few.
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