Why Retail Businesses Open Next to Their Competitors

Have you ever wondered why coffee shops, car dealers, and fast food restaurants tend to be clustered together? Sometimes it is due to local ...

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...

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...

Poverty in America - The Living Wage Calculator

The Living Wage Calculator is a website developed and maintained by Dr. Amy K. Glasmeier at MIT. The purpose of the Living Wage Calculator ...

The Global Closet Calculator - A Lesson in Interdependence

Geography Awareness Week starts on Sunday. One of the National Geographic resources for this year's Geography Awareness Week that I thi...

Two Hands-on Economics Lessons for Students

Yesterday I had a conversation with a teacher who had developed his own stock market game for his middle school social studies course. As we...

Money Metropolis, Financial Football, and More Money Skills Games

Money Metropolis is an educational game hosted on Practical Money Skills .   In the game students choose savings goals then navigate their ...

Video - The Complexities of Gold

CNN's Explain It To Me video series attempts to take complex topics and break them down into clear explanations. One of the videos that ...

Create Smart Investors on the Virtual Stock Exchnage

This week I am away on an offline vacation. Rather than let the blog be dormant or rerunning old posts I decided to give some other people a...

The Marketplace Whiteboard Explains Economic Issues

On Wednesday evening as I was driving home from a workshop I facilitated I heard a report about Spain's economy on American Public Medi...

Financial Literacy, Taxes, and Economics Lessons

This evening I opened an email from Edutopia that contained a nice, simple infographic about the importance of financial literacy . The info...

Guides to the Global Economy for Students

The Global Economy.com is a nice resource developed for high school and undergraduate students by Georgia State University Economics Profes...

Stocks, Dividends, and Inflation Explained in Under Two Minutes

Through Explania I have just discovered a great collection of short video explanations of important topics in economics. Investopedia has ...

Econ Ed Link - Economics Lessons and Games

Produced by the Council for Economic Education, Econ Ed Link hosts hundreds of lesson plans and interactive games for teaching students abo...

Three Resources for Teaching About Surviving on Minimum Wage

Teaching economics is one of my favorite things to do each year. A big part of the reason that I enjoy teaching economics is that learning a...

Visualizing Unemployment v. Recovery Spending

Image credit Last week President Obama's speech and proposals for job creation provided plenty of fodder for political talking heads. De...

Spent - A Game for Learning About Life on Minimum Wage

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

11 Videos for Economics Lessons

Economics can be a tricky topic teach. I've often found that students are interested in learning about how the economy works, but strugg...

Economics Education Resources

The International Monetary Fund has some good resources that can help you help your students gain an understanding of global economics....