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Earning Income

In this FREE lesson, students play a guessing game to identify various occupations. Then they consider some of the education, skills and talents required for those occupations. They analyze the connection between human capital and wages. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

• Define human resources, income, wage, human capital.
• Explain that people earn income by providing resources in the market.
• Explain the connection between human capital and income.
• Identify ways in which people invest in their human capital.

What is a Financial Life?

"What is a Financial Life?" is one of fifteen lessons on the Financing Your Future DVD. The lesson?s objective is to demonstrate that having the right financial skills is important to high school students now and in the future. Students participate in activities such as:

• Setting financial goals
• Finding solutions to financial scenarios
• Creating their own income and expenditure log

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Why Do People Trade?

By trading everyday items like school supplies and snacks, students learn about trade, voluntary exchange costs and benefits.

Click here to view a printable FREE copy of this lesson plan. Excerpted from Focus: International Economics, an NCEE publication, and demonstrated in SCETV’s The Economics Classroom video.

The Grasshopper and the Ant: A Fable About Saving

Aesop's fable can help students understand the trade-offs and opportunity costs of satisfying wants today versus planning for the future. Click here to view a printable FREE copy of this lesson plan.

Why Save? and The Rule of 72

Students learn the meaning of savings—paying yourself first—and why people save. Excerpted from Learning, Earning and Investing published by NCEE. Click here to view a printable FREE copy of this lesson plan.

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