This Budget Project walks students through the following areas of creating (and discovering) a budget and how much life beyond college will cost. The idea of this lesson is to let students budget $32,000 to simulate their first year out of college. I choose $32,000 because it is difficult to budget for. I usually explain to them that they could only find a part-time job. I also tell them that they may not a) live at their parents or have roommates b) use their current car and c) must buy everything they need, they will not be able to bring anything with them into this future life scenario. Students walk through the following: 1. Researching careers they are interested in to see the entry salary of that job. 2. Pay Federal Taxes 3. Pay off College Debt 4. Research and Rent an Apartment 5. Buy a Car 6. Buy Gas for the Car 7. Pay Insurance on the Car 8. Buy a Cell Phone Plan 9. Buy Groceries 10. Make Other Choices such as TV, Internet, Fun Money, Clothing/Shoes, etc. The Project also comes with a budgeting sheet and reflection questions.

This bundle includes a comprehensive review guide and 5 quizzes. The unit is a typical market unit for a high school economics course. The quizzes are on demand, supply, market equilibrium, price controls, and elasticity. Each quiz has 2 versions so that teachers may use an A/B quiz (to limit cheating), give a practice quiz and a real quiz, or a day 1 and day 2 quiz for mastery learning opportunities. This unit now includes some practice quizzes, a commonly missed questions review guide, a leveled game that can be used as a fun review, and some more worksheets on topics in the unit. The leveled game is a fun experience where students get ‘achievements’ for completing 4 levels of the game. I have included the achievements page as well. Just print out, cut out, and give to students as they complete each level of the game!

This unit is a microeconomic unit on theory of the firm taught to an academic level class. The bundle includes 2 worksheets on Market Structures and Types of Businesses. This bundle also includes 4 quizzes covering Business Types, Market Structures, Production Function (Production Theory), and Costs of Production/Profit. Each quiz has 2 versions so that teachers may use an A/B quiz (to limit cheating), give a practice quiz and a real quiz, or a day 1 and day 2 quiz for mastery learning opportunities. This unit now includes several of my worksheets on costs of production, types of businesses, a marketing project for students to complete as a fun activity, and a webquest on opening a restaurant.

Included in this package is 3 quizzes, a review guide, and 3 practice unemployment worksheets. the worksheets on Unemployment cover examples of who counts and does not count in unemployment as well as the math of calculating the unemployment rate, labor force, and labor force participation rate. Each quiz has 2 versions so that teachers may use an A/B quiz (to limit cheating), give a practice quiz and a real quiz, or a day 1 and day 2 quiz for mastery learning opportunities.

This unit includes a review guide for a unit on the AS/AD Model and Fiscal Policy. Quizzes included are a Short-run Equilibrium quiz, LRAS and the business cycle quiz, and a Fiscal Policy quiz. Each quiz has 2 versions so teachers can give 2 versions either as practice and real quiz, or as a way to promote mastery learning by giving students multiple chances to demonstrate knowledge. This unit now includes several of my worksheets, new quizzes, and a case study packet to work on identifying economic problems in the economy and prescribing proper fiscal policy reactions.

This unit includes a worksheet on money creation and the money multiplier, 4 quizzes on banking, the Fed, Monetary Policy, and Money and a comprehensive review guide for a unit on monetary policy. Each quiz has 2 versions so teachers can give 2 versions either as practice and real quiz, or as a way to promote mastery learning by giving students multiple chances to demonstrate knowledge. This unit now includes several worksheets, new quizzes, and a couple of projects/activities. One project is a research project on famous economists and their important additions to the economic field. The other is a money project where students think about the functions and themes of currency to create their own currency. There is also a review game for sorting cards by type of monetary policy action.