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Grades 9-12

Estate planning – leaving your things in the right hands

By getting your estate in order now, you can help avoid potential problems during difficult times.

Key Concepts: Insurance, Taxes

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Grades 9-12

Wills and trusts: Two ways to help ensure you have the last word

Whatever size your estate is, knowing the ins and outs of each can help ensure your wishes are more closely...

Key Concepts: Insurance, Taxes

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Grades 9-12

GameStop Trial by Jury

In this economics activity, students will have a discussion/debate about GameStop Short Squeeze.

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Financial Investments, Markets and Prices

30 mins

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Grades 9-12

A FiCycle Analysis of GameStop

In this personal finance lesson, students will analyze the value of a stock to a long-term investor.

Key Concepts: Financial Investments, Investing, Money

45 mins

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Grades 9-12

Covid-19 Fiscal Responses Around the World

Student rank, research and compare different fiscal policy responses used by various governments during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Fiscal Policy

60 mins

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Grades 9-12

Automatic Stabilizers, What Are They and Are They Effective

Students explore fiscal policy remedies used by the federal government to reduce volatile fluctuations in the business cycle.

Key Concepts: Business Cycles, Fiscal Policy

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Grades 9-12

National Personal Finance Challenge Case Study Presentation Critique

Watch a winning team’s presentation and hear from an expert on what your team can do to help them succeed!

30 mins

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Grades 9-12

Building Wealth: Save and Invest, Put It In the Bank

In this lesson, students will compare two savings plans: stuffing a mattress with money and using a bank.

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Credit, Financial Investments…

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Grades 9-12

Building Wealth: Saving for a Lifetime

Building Wealth is a personal finance education resource that presents an overview of wealth-building strategies.

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Decision Making, Financial Investments…

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Grades 9-12

Bankruptcy Basics Lesson for Grades 9-12

Students learn that about bankruptcy, how it is handled, and who it helps.

Key Concepts: Consumers, Credit

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Grades 9-12

College: Learning the Skills to Pay the Bills

This issue of Page One Economics examines two economic models used to study how education, productivity, and income are related.

Key Concepts: Human Capital, Income, Productivity

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Making a Budget - It Is All Spending!

Students discover that all elements of a budget are essentially spending on goods and services.

Key Concepts: Decision Making, Goods and Services, Income…

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Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

National Standards for Financial Literacy

This personal finance manual provides a framework for teaching personal finance in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Key Concepts: Personal Finance

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Grades 9-12

National Personal Finance Challenge Practice Test

In this personal finance activity, students will use ReadyAssessments to take a practice test for NPFC.

Key Concepts: Personal Finance

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Grades 9-12

To Intervene or Not To Intervene: That is the Question All Governments Must Ask

In this economics activity, students will compare immediate benefits to long-term costs of fiscal stimulus during recessions.

Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Business Cycles, Fiscal Policy

90 mins

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Grades 9-12

Multipliers and Fiscal Policy

In this economics lesson, students will analyze responses to the COVID-19 crisis to learn about fiscal policy and its limits.

Key Concepts: Aggregate Demand, Economic Growth, Fiscal Policy

60 mins

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