The Miracle of Compound Returns
(View Complete Item Description)This 5 minute video will teach students the benefits of compound interest. This video will aid in the mastery of standard EPF.18 (a)
Material Type: Lecture
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Monetary Policy: The Best Case Scenario
(View Complete Item Description)In this 6 minute video, a scenario is presented to students who act as members of the FED and must make decisions related to monetary policy. A scenario is presented and then outcome impacts are discussed. This video will aid in the mastery of standard EPF. 4 and 7
Material Type: Lecture
Mutual Funds
(View Complete Item Description)This 1 minute video will define what a mutual fund is and will aid students in standard EPF. 18
Material Type: Lecture
Opportunity Costs: The Parable of the Broken Window
(View Complete Item Description)Paradoxically, while natural disasters clearly destroy wealth, they also seem to create wealth and employment when the damages are repaired. But 19th century French economist Frédéric Bastiat argued that this idea is a fallacy and fails to take opportunity costs into account. In this video, philosophy professor Dan Russell of the University of Arizona defines opportunity costs and explains the importance of Bastiat’s realization on contemporary economics.
Material Type: Lesson
Price Ceilings
(View Complete Item Description)This 3 minute video will explain price ceilings and their effect on an economy. This video will aid in the mastery of standard EPF. 3 (d)
Material Type: Lecture
Price Ceilings: Rent Controls
(View Complete Item Description)This video will explain the classic price ceiling example of rent controls and how shortages are created from a price ceiling. This video will aid in the understanding of how price ceilings create shortages and enforces standard EPF. 3 (d)
Material Type: Lecture
Price Controls and Communism
(View Complete Item Description)This video is 3 minutes long and will enforce the understanding of the role government plays in a command economy. This video will enforce the standards EPF. 1 (e)
Material Type: Lecture
Price Floors: Minimum Wage
(View Complete Item Description)This 9 minute video will aid students in understanding how minimum wage attempts to create economic equity but will create a surplus of labor. This video will aid in the mastery of standards EPF. 3 (d) and 10 (b)
Material Type: Lecture
Price Floors: The Minimum Wage
(View Complete Item Description)This 9 minute video will explain the example of how price floors create a surplus using minimum wage as the example. This video will aid in the mastery of EPF. 3 (d)
Material Type: Lecture
Profit, Loss, and Discovery: A Lecture
(View Complete Item Description)In this lecture, Professor Howie Baetjer of Towson University explains how the market process generates improvements in the human condition, highlighting how profit and loss serve to help people channel their activities in creative and socially useful directions.
Material Type: Lesson
Public Choice Theory: Why Government Often Fails
(View Complete Item Description)Governments don’t work the way most people think they do. In this lecture, Professor Antony Davies of Duquesne University explains public choice theory, a branch of economics that explores how voters, politicians, and bureaucrats actually make decisions.
Material Type: Lecture
Public Choice: Why Politicians Don't Cut Spending
(View Complete Item Description)Why do politicians never seem to cut government spending? Using public choice economics, Professor Ben Powell of Suffolk University explains why it's difficult to cut policies with concentrated benefits and dispersed costs.
Material Type: Lecture, Lesson
Right Start in Teaching Economics
(View Complete Item Description)The Right Start in Teaching Economics lessons were designed for those new to teaching economics Đ even if not new to teaching! An excellent review or refresher if college economics courses have become a distant memory, Right Start lessons help teachers enter the classroom with renewed confidence in their own understanding of economic reasoning.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
What Can We Cut to Balance the Budget?
(View Complete Item Description)In 2011, federal government spending significantly outweighed revenue. While the federal government spent $3.8 trillion, it collected only $2.2 trillion from various taxes, licenses, and fees. In this video, Professor Antony Davies of Duquesne University explores what the federal government is spending money on and what can be cut to balance the budget.
Material Type: Lecture, Lesson
What Do Prices "Know" That You Don't?
(View Complete Item Description)According to Professor Michael Munger of Duke University, prices are akin to magic. In this video, Professor Munger explains how prices convert countless pieces of dispersed, complex information into a single signal that conveys to sellers what they should do to best benefit society.
Material Type: Lecture, Lesson
What If the National Debt Were Your Debt?
(View Complete Item Description)The national debt is so big that it's often hard to comprehend. In this video, Professor Antony Davies of Duquesne University presents the government’s fiscal situation scaled down to the level of an average household to help students understand the national debt.
Material Type: Lesson
What do Banks do? (Video)
(View Complete Item Description)This video introduces students to what banks do and their purpose in our economy as a linker between borrows and lenders. This video will aid in the mastery of standard EPF. 12
Material Type: Lecture
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)? (video)
(View Complete Item Description)This video is approximately 4 minutes long and will explain the concept of GDP. It will aid in the mastery of standard EPF. 5 (a)
Material Type: Lecture
BLOOM'S TAXONOMY OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
(View Complete Item Description)THE BLOOM'S CLASSIFICATION OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES IS REALLY A PATH SHOWING TO THE TEACHERS OF ALL CATEGORIES i.e. PRE PRIMARY, PRIMARY, MIDDLE SCHOOL, SECONDARY, SENIOR SECONDARY AND EVEN TEACHERS AT HIGHER EDUCATION. IT GUIDES ABOUT THE GOALS TO BE ACHIEVED IN THE CLASSROOM BY THE TEACHERS.
Material Type: Lecture, Lesson, Module, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study
Questioning Techniques: Research-Based Strategies for Teachers
(View Complete Item Description)This article discusses research findings about classroom questioning and provides tips for teachers and online and print resources.
Material Type: Lesson Plan