Stand-alone lesson plans, activities, and assessments for economics teachers, created by Econiful.
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Creative writing with econ terms, perfect for Valentine's Day.
- Decision Making & Scarcity
Activity 30 minutes
Econiful resources aligned to the College Board's CED for AP Micro and AP Macro.
- Advanced Placement
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Econiful resources aligned to the Arizona standards for economics.
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Decide how to spend tax revenues generated by monster tourism to learn about the factors that support economic growth.
- Economic Growth
Lesson Plan 60 minutes
Play a simple card matching game to learn about insurance.
- Personal Finance
Lesson Plan 45 minutes
Play a simple board game to learn about the importance of credit scores & the factors that affect them.
- Personal Finance
Lesson Plan 45 minutes
Gather and analyze data on price variation in a research report.
- Markets & Prices
Assessment 90 minutes+
Research a firm to make connections to economic concepts.
- Competition & Market Structure
Assessment 60 minutes+
Play a memory-type game, great for introduction or review.
- Decision Making & Scarcity
Activity 15 minutes
Participate in a simulation to learn about the role of banks.
- Institutions
Lesson Plan 60 minutes
A game that helps students understand foreign exchange rates.
- Markets & Prices
Activity 60 minutes
A holiday-themed gains from trade practice exercise.
- Specialization
Activity 15 minutes
Econiful resources aligned to the Georgia Personal Finance and Economics course.
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Play a board game to become familiar with a variety of financial assets and investment accounts.
- Personal Finance
Lesson Plan 60 minutes+
JET is an open access, economics pedagogy journal full of innovative teaching ideas.
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Create a 1-page plan for a new product that solves a problem related to Halloween.
- Entrepreneurship
Activity 45 minutes
Econiful resources aligned to the Idaho standards for economics.
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Econiful resources aligned to the Indiana standards for economics.
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Summaries and links for 30 lesson plans to bring economics into a U.S. History class.
- History & Economics
Resource Guide 45 minutes+
Econiful resources aligned to the Kentucky standards for economics.
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Students compete to answer a wide variety of questions on macroeconomic concepts.
- Macro Review
Activity 45 minutes
Decide how to spend an income by building a budget.
- Personal Finance
Lesson Plan 45 minutes
Play an error analysis game to master product market models.
- Markets & Prices
- Role of Prices
Activity 45 minutes
Sort cards to practice shifters of supply and demand. Instructions for a bonus graphing game are included.
- Role of Prices
Activity 15 minutes+
Students compete to answer a wide variety of questions on microeconomic concepts.
- Micro Review
Activity 45 minutes
Econiful resources aligned to the Minnesota standards for economics.
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Econiful resources aligned to the Nebraska standards for economics.
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Econiful resources aligned to the North Carolina Economics and Personal Finance course.
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Play an Uno-like game to learn about different occupations and the factors that shape wages.
- Personal Finance
Lesson Plan 60 minutes
Students practice their understanding of price elasticity of demand.
- Role of Prices
Activity 15 minutes+
Participate in a simulation and learn about the power of compound interest along with vampires' saving advantage.
- Personal Finance
Lesson Plan 60 minutes
Econiful resources aligned to the South Carolina Economics and Personal Finance Standards.
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Learn about rational decision-making by tackling choices in the face of a zombie threat.
- Decision Making & Scarcity
Lesson Plan 60 minutes
Compose a conversation with a pet in which you help them understand an important economic concept.
- Macro Review
- Micro Review
Assessment 60 minutes+
Econiful resources aligned to the Tennessee standards for economics.
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Econiful resources aligned to the Texas Personal Financial Literacy and Economics (PFLE) course.
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Collect and analyze price data connected to a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
- Unemployment & Inflation
Activity 60 minutes+
Compose economic messages for Valentine’s Day greeting cards.
- Decision Making & Scarcity
Activity 30 minutes
Create a 1-page plan for a new product that solves a problem related to Thanksgiving.
- Entrepreneurship
Activity 45 minutes
Carry out a simplified version of the process used by the BLS to calculate inflation.
- Money & Inflation
Lesson Plan 60 minutes
Econiful resources aligned to the Virginia Economics and Personal Finance course.
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