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Texas High School Personal Finance Teaching Resources
Lesson plans, videos, interactive practice, and other curriculum aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards.
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Resources by TEKS Standards: Personal Financial Literacy and Economics
Fundamental Concepts of Economics
Unit Plans
Interactive Practice
- Sunk Cost or Not?
- Unintended Consequences
- Graph a Demand Curve
- Graph a Supply Curve
- Shift in Supply or Demand
- Holiday Edition: Shifts in Supply or Demand
- Shifts in Both Supply and Demand Curves
- Change in Supply vs. Change in Quantity Supplied
- Change in Demand vs. Quantity Demanded
- Change in Demand vs. Quantity Demanded (Valentine’s Day edition)
- Consumer and Producer Surplus
- Price Ceilings
- Price Floors
Video
- I, Rose
- Price is a Signal Wrapped up in an Incentive
- Markets Link the World
- Opportunity Cost and Tradeoffs
- Marginal Thinking and the Sunk Cost Fallacy
- Incentives
- What is Opportunity Cost?
- The Demand Curve
- The Supply Curve
- The Equilibrium Price and Quantity
- Graphing a Demand Curve from a Demand Schedule, and How to Read a Demand Graph
- What Shifts the Demand Curve?
- Change in Demand vs. Change in Quantity Demanded
- Consumer Surplus
- Understanding the Supply Curve: Shifts & Producer Surplus
- What Shifts the Supply Curve?
- Equilibrium in Economics: How a Supply and Demand Graph Dot Explains Producer and Consumer Surplus
- Supply and Demand Terminology
- Does the Equilibrium Model Work?
- Price Ceilings
- Price Floors: The Minimum Wage
- Why do Governments Enact Price Controls?
- Price Controls and Communism
- Elasticity of Supply: Why Housing is Unaffordable
Assessment Questions
Impact of Macroeconomic Issues and Policies on Personal Finance
Unit Plans
Interactive Practice
- What’s Included in GDP?
- Holiday Edition: What’s Included in GDP?
- Functions of Money
- Calculating Inflation
- Winners and Losers of Inflation
- Calculating Labor Force and Unemployment
- Types of Unemployment
- Fiscal Policy Slot Machine
- Guess the Government Expenditures
- Guess the Tax Revenue
- Guess the Tax Revenue by Income Quintile
- Dual Mandate
- Market for Reserves
Video
- What is Money?
- Introduction to Fiscal Policy
- Fiscal Policy: The Best Case Scenario
- The Limits of Fiscal Policy
- The Dangers of Fiscal Policy
- Fiscal Policy and Crowding Out
- Monetary Policy and the Fed
- The U.S. Money Supplies
- The Money Multiplier
- How the Fed Worked: Before the Great Recession
- Open Market Operations
- Federal Funds Rate
- How the Fed Works: After the Great Recession
- The Federal Reserve as Lender of Last Resort
- Monetary Policy: The Best Case Scenario
- Monetary Policy: The Negative Real Shock
- When the Fed Does Too Much
- Econ Duel: Fiat Money vs. the Gold Standard
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