Original Lesson Materials
The following links are to Google Docs of original materials I created for my high school business classes. Fellow teachers, feel free to use them for your own classes as well!
If the link is to a Google Doc, go to File > Make a Copy so that you can edit it and use it in your own classroom. If it is a Google Form, you will need to copy/paste the content (there is unfortunately not a better way). If it is on EdCite or Flipgrid, set up an account on their site and search for my content so that you can copy it to your own assignments.
Intro to Entrepreneurship
Ownership and Opportunity
- Constructed Response: Why Entrepreneurship?
- Close Reading: Invictus (EdCite)
- Worksheet: Opportunity Examples
- Worksheet: Shark Tank SWOT Analysis
Externalities and Giving Back to the Community
- Worksheet: Internalizing Externalities
- Worksheet: Company Charitable Causes
- Constructed Response: Xerox and the Triple Bottom Line
Market Research and Marketing
- Hyperdoc: What Makes Things Cool
Regulations & Intellectual Property
- Constructed Response: AT&T/Time Warner Antitrust
- Constructed Response: Monsanto Intellectual Property
Management
- Group Activity: Building Bridges
Personal Financial Responsibility
Banking and Interest
- Constructed Response: Payday Loans
College and Careers
- Worksheet: Career Research
- Constructed Response: Job Application Writing Prompt
Economics
- Constructed Response: Goods or Services?
Stock Market Investing
- Math Skills: Capital Gains and Dividends
- Math Skills: EPS and P/E Ratio
- Math Skills: Growth Rate
- Worksheet: Stock Earnings Report (8-K) Analysis
- Worksheet: Stock Purchase
- Worksheet: Stock Price Change Analysis
- Worksheet: Stock or Fund Analysis (using quant/qual and growth/value grid)
Taxes and Benefits
- Constructed Response: Traditional or Roth IRA
- Worksheet: 401(k) Allocations
Home Budgeting
- Worksheet: House Shopping
- Worksheet: True Expense of a Car
- Worksheet: Budget Project Questions
External Links to Lesson Materials
The following are quality lesson plan sources I have found to be highly reliable to use in my classroom.
Business
Business Educators group on Facebook
Economics
Foundation for Teaching Economics
The Foundation for Teaching Economics provides lessons and other resources for economics teachers based on their 5 Economic Reasoning Propositions. Three of their curricula are listed below. The rest can be found here.
Right Start in Teaching Economics
- Lesson Outlines
- The Economic Way of Thinking
- Trade Offs and Opportunity Cost
- Demand, Supply and the Market
- Teaching Students How Markets Work — Market Changes, Price Determination and Elasticity
- Understanding the Role and Importance of the Public and Private Sectors
- Economic Goals and Measuring Economic Activity — Goals Simulation
- Economic Goals and Measuring Economic Activity — Measurement Tools
- Inflation and Unemployment
- Fiscal Policy
- Money and the Banking System — The Mechanics
- Money and the Banking System — The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy
- Market Structures and Competition
- International Trade — Part I — Why People Trade
- International Trade — Part II — Exchange Rate Determination and Implications
- Activities
Economics for Leaders
- Lessons
- Lesson 1: Economic Growth and Scarcity
- Lesson 2: Opportunity Cost and Incentives
- Lesson 3: Open Markets
- Lesson 4: Markets in Action
- Lesson 5: Labor Markets
- Lesson 6: Incentives, Innovations, and Roles of Institutions
- Lesson 7: Property Rights: Is the Environment Different?
- Lesson 8: Setting the Rules: Costs and Benefits of Government Action
- Lesson 9: Money and Inflation
- Lesson 10: International Markets
- Classroom Activities
- The Magic of Markets: Trade Creates Wealth*
- In the Chips — A Market in Computer Chips*
- Cartels and Competition* – includes link to The Market for Thingamajigs, a variation exploring the issue of price gouging (from The Economics of Disasters)
- The Job Jungle: A Labor Market Game* – includes link to The Giant Sucking Sound – Trade Woes or Job Flows, a variation exploring outsourcing (from Issues in International Trade)
- The Fish Game
- Farmers and Fishers*
- A Pollution Solution*
- Foreign Currencies and Foreign Exchange
- Practice with Opportunity Cost – download link (.doc) for Lesson 1 supplement used in summer EFL teacher sessions
- EFL Performance Assessment – Public Policies on Trial – download link (.doc) for student assessment used in summer EFL programs
- *EFL Activity Slides – download link (.ppt): slides (generic) for conducting activities marked with * above
Economic History for Leaders
- Lesson Outlines
- The Market for Moving People
- Births, Deaths, and Economic Growth
- The Constitution as an Economic Document
- Innovation, Education, and Information
- Land Ordinances and Western Movement
- The Transportation Revolution and Formation of the National Economy
- Banking and Bank Regulation
- The Political Economy of Emancipation
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- The Great Depression
- The New Deal
- Wars and the Economy
- Immigrants and the American Workforce
- The Rise of Big Government
- Protectionism vs. Globalization
- Glossary
- Downloads
- Classroom Activities
- Property Rights and U.S. History: Jamestown Simulation
- Indentured Servitude: A Colonial Market for Labor
- Transaction Costs and Currency: 1808 Road Trip
- Oklahoma Land Rush: Property Rights on the American Frontier
- A Question of Trust
- Show Me the Money! A Franctional Reserve Banking Simulation
- The Great Depression: A Family’s Choices
- Women and Work in American History: The Opportunity Cost of Staying Home
- Downloads
Jason Welker Lessons
AP and IB economics teacher and textbook author Jason Welker has some fantastic lesson ideas and other content on his web site Welker’s Wikinomics, including the following:
- Economics of Zoo Keeping – Introduction to Basic Economic Concepts
- Paper Chain Factory – Testing the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns
- Circular Flow Simulation
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