Advertising and Math

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Lesson Description

This lesson uses the newspaper to explain that advertising is a cost of doing business. It requires
business owners and managers to make choices about how they spend their financial resources.

Advertising Techniques

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Lesson Description

Economic Impact of Decision Making
in the News

Key Economic Concepts:

Lesson Description

Using newspaper articles from the Local and State sections of the newspaper, students will interpret the impact a given event will have on communities and their economies. They will also deduct how the decisions made influenced the outcome of the event. An economic impact could be small or only applicable to one family, or the impact could be a large disaster costing taxpayers millions of dollars.

Global Current Events

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Lesson Description

Students will be assigned to one of four groups. In these groups students will use newspapers to locate articles that go with their assigned topic. Topics can vary
based on the course being taught. Lesson is designed for topics related to global
or international issues.

Good News, Bad News, Who Cares?

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Lesson Description

Using contemporary news, students will evaluate economic consequences of political, social, or environmental events by debating the impact of events on them, both as individuals and as a society. Development of reading comprehension skills will be a major focus of the lesson, as students will be required to identify the basic components of all news articles.

Health Care in the News

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Lesson Description

Students will locate and cut out a newspaper article related to health care, categorized it into one of three categories: Health Care Cost, Research and Development Cost, or Illness and Disease Cost. The purpose is to discuss the role of technological changes and innovations in the health care industry.

Let’s Get Graphic:

Economic Forecasting

Key Economic Concepts:

• Economic Indicators

Lesson Description

Students will find graphs in newspaper that deal with growth, productivity, inflation, spending, unemployment, and other economic indicators. This lesson follows an in-depth study of line/bar/and circle graphs.

Madness of States and Regions

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Lesson Description

Identify the Regions of the U.S. and the states that make up those regions using the colleges and universities involved in March Madness NCAA Basketball Tournament.

Needs Vs. Wants

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Lesson Description:

Cutting out pictures of needs and wants and sorting the pictures onto a T-chart.

Personal Finance

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Lesson Objectives:

Understanding Trade, Entrepreneurship, and Making Money

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Lesson Description:

At the end of the unit the student will be able to define stocks, describe how corporations operate in the global economy, and identify foreign and domestic corporations.

Understanding Your Pay Stub

Key Economic Concepts

Lesson Description

This lesson will help students understand all the items on the paycheck and where the money goes before they receive their check. This lesson can be easily extended to examine where the money goes once they receive their checks.

Wants & Needs:

Colonial America vs. Today

Key Economic Concepts

Lesson Description

This unit is designed for upper level elementary students to compare and contrast various needs and wants of colonial Americans and people today. The goal is to have students understand the concept of needs and wants and how they have changed or remained the same over time.

What’s Your Stock Up To?

Key Economic Concepts

Lesson Description

Students will identify current events that are determining/impacting selected stocks purchased on the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ. This lesson is designed to be used in conjunction with Stock Market Game™ or a similar stock market simulation, but could be used as a one time lesson if students selected a stock from the listing on the NYSE or NASDAQ.