Two Activities to Help Students Learn About the Cost of Living

Spent is an online game designed to teach players about the challenges of living on minimum wage (or slightly higher) employment. Players b...

60 Second Lessons on Economics, Philosophy, and Religion

60 second videos are clearly not a replacement for actual lessons, but they could be great introductions to larger lessons. They also provid...

OpenStax Releases Principles of Economics - A Free eText

OpenStax College is an initiative whose purpose is to create and distribute free and low-cost college textbooks. The initiative is led by R...

Gen i Revolution - A Personal Finance Game for Middle School and High School Students

Gen i Revolution is an online game designed to help middle school and high school students develop and test their knowledge of concepts in ...

Videos - What Is Money? What Is Inflation?

As I've mentioned many times over the years, economics is one of my favorite subjects to teach. Some of my first lessons when introducin...

A Cartoon Explanation and Game About International Trade

The multimedia library on The Economist contains a set of cartoon videos explaining some big concepts in economics. Of the six cartoon the ...

Secret Millionaires Club - Business Lessons for Kids

Secret Millionaires Club is a series of animated videos and games designed to help kids learn the basics of business creation, management, ...

Economics Lessons for Students of All Ages

A couple of weeks ago David Andrade posted a short list of financial literacy resources for students. Money As You Grow is one of the item...

By Request - Life on Minimum Wage - An Economics Lesson

Over the last few weeks I have received a lot requests to share the Google Document for my economics lesson  Life on Minimum Wage . The purp...

Money 101 - A Crash Course in Personal Finance

Money 101 is a free resource from Practical Money Skills for Life . Money 101 is available as a PPT file with an accompanying workbook (PDF ...

What Is Money? - A Short Economics Lesson

The Atlantic's new series Economics In Plain English is a good resource for social studies teachers to bookmark and share with their st...

Economics In Plain English - Atlantic Video Series

Thanks to Lee Lefever this week I learned about the Atlantic's new video series Economics in Plain English . The series currently conta...

Quest for Credit - A Personal Finance Lesson

Mint.com offers fifty-eight videos about various aspects of personal finance. While many of them are about using Mint's services to mana...

Use Clips of Seinfeld to Teach Economics

Over the last couple of days I've shared some resources for teaching and learning about economics. Here's one more that I've use...

Life on Minimum Wage - A Hands-on Economics Lesson

Over the last few weeks I have received a lot requests to share the Google Document for my economics lesson Life on Minimum Wage . I thought...

The Great Economists - A Marginal Revolution University MOOC

The Marginal Revolution University is a project started by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok at George Mason University. MRUniversity offers MO...

A Simple Video Explanation of Compound Interest

Compound interest can be a wonderful thing if you're saving money. Or it can be a curse if you're trying to pay-off a debt. Either w...

5 Resources to Help Students Learn About Income Taxes

Today is the busiest day of the year for the U.S. Post Office. Why? Because tax returns have to be post marked by today. If you're looki...

StatWorld - Interactive Maps of Development Data

StatSilk's StatWorld contains more than 400 world maps of data on topics in economics, education, health, environment, the digital divi...

How Many Minimum Wage Hours Does It Take to Survive?

One of my favorite high school social studies topics to teach has always been personal economics. Part of helping students understand person...