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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBill, Are You Bogus?
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Economics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceIn this EconEdLink lesson, students learn about the benefits of money over a barter system and about the problem of counterfeiti...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkI Have No Money, Would You Take Wampum?
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Economics, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from EconEdLink, students use folk tales, history, and their own experiences to recognize the inter-relatedness ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Big Mac Index
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Economics, Visual Arts, Mathematics, Number Sense, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from EconEdLink, students explore how the Big Mac allows economists to make (admittedly unscientific) comparison...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExchange Rates and Exchange: How Money Affects Trade
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Economics, History-Social ScienceIn this EconEdLink lesson, students calculate prices of goods produced in other countries, given exchange rates. They predict th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAgent Pincher: The Case of the UFO
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Economics, History-Social ScienceIn this EconEdLink lesson, students are introduced to the concepts of trade, foreign currency, exchange rates, and imports and e...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAgent Notebook
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Economics, History-Social ScienceThis student reproducible, from an EconEdLink lesson, provides an "agent notebook" on which students record information about a ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe World Factbook: Exports
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Economics, Geography, History-Social Science, ElectivesThis page, from the CIA World Factbook Web site, provides every country s exports from the Economy field listing. The countries,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe World Factbook: Imports
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Economics, Geography, History-Social Science, ElectivesThis page, from the CIA World Factbook Web site, provides every country s imports from the Economy field listing. The countries,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Is the International Monetary Fund?
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Economics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis resource, part of the International Monetary Fund Web site, provides a table of contents of basic information about the IMF...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBloomberg Currency Calculator
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Economics, History-Social ScienceThis resource, part of Bloomberg.com, is a currency calculator that will compute the value of changing from one country s curren...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMoney Makes the World Go 'Round: Examining Currency and Its Impact on the Global Economy
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Economics, World History, American Democracy, History-Social Science and 2 additional..In this two-day lesson plan, from the New York Times Learning Network, students examine what a basic unit of currency means and ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhen Currencies Began to Float
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Economics, Geography, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from the EconEdLink-reviewed Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy Web site, presents an essay on ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0