Title: Tennessee Economics Sample Syllabus

Standard 1: 🧩Scarcity & Economic Reasoning
  Choices Are Everywhere: Why Can't We Just Have It All?
  Economic Lowdown Video Series—There is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
  Explore Economics Video Series—Scarcity
  Opportunity Cost
  Economic Lowdown Audio Series—Factors of Production
  Economic Lowdown Video Series—Circular Flow
  How Trade Helps Each Side
  Planet Money: Incentives Don't Always Solve Worker Shortages
  👉In Class Lesson: Incentives Are All Around Us (Teacher Only)
  Economic Lowdown Audio Series—Functions of Money
  Planet Money: What Is Money?
  Economic Lowdown Video Series—Production Possibilities Frontier, Segment 1
  Economic Lowdown Video Series—Production Possibilities Frontier, Segment 2
  Economic Lowdown Video Series—Production Possibilities Frontier, Segment 3
  Jack of All Trades: Production Possibilities Frontier
  What is Productivity?
Standard 2: 📈Supply & Demand
  Demand
  Economic Lowdown Video Series—Demand
  Supply
  Economic Lowdown Video Series—Supply
  The Science of Supply and Demand
  Market Equilibrium
  Economic Lowdown Video Series—Equilibrium
  Prices: The Marketplace's Communication System
Standard 3: 🛒Market Structures
  👉 In Class Lesson: Entrepreneurship—Working for Yourself (Teacher Only)
  Planet Money: Entrepreneurs Created the Big Box Store
  Planet Money: How a Teenager Became an Entreprenuer
  No-Frills Money Skills Video Series—Get into Stocks
  Stock Market Strategies: Are You an Active or Passive Investor?
  Tools for Enhancing The Stock Market Game™: Invest it Forward™ Understanding Capital Markets—Elementary
  👉In Class Lesson: Teaching Market Structures with a Competitive Gum Market (Teacher Only)
  The Economics of Flying: How Competitive Are the Friendly Skies?
  What Should College Athletes Be Paid? Market Structure and the NCAA
  Explore Economics Video Series—The Economics of Infrastructure
  Advertising: Dollars and Decisions
  Explore Economics Video Series—Productivity
  The Productivity Puzzle
  👉In Class Lesson: Investing in Yourself (Teacher Only)
  Economic Lowdown Audio Series—The Labor Market
  College: Learning the Skills To Pay the Bills?
  The Trade-Off Between Fun and Wages Is Real
Standard 4: 🏛️The Role of Government
  Fiscal Policy: The Basics of Taxation and Government Spending
  👉In Class Lesson: What Are Taxes For? (Teacher Only)
  Government Budgets
  👉In Class Lesson: Understanding Taxes (Teacher Only)
  Your Social Security Number: The 9-Digit Evolution
  Unemployment Insurance: A Tried and True Safety Net
  👉In Class Lesson: Government Spending and Taxes Lesson (Teacher Only)
  Making Sense of the National Debt
  👉In Class Lesson: The Fiscal Ship Online Game (Teacher Only)
  Fed Explained—The Central Bank
  Fed Functions: Conducting Monetary Policy
  Fed Functions: Consumer Protections and Community Development
  Fed Functions: Fostering Payment and Settlement System Safety and Efficiency
  Fed Functions: Promoting Financial System Stability
  Fed Functions: Supervising and Regulating Financial Institutions
  What is the Fed?
  Fiscal Policy: Tools for Influencing the Economy
  The Fed’s New Monetary Policy Tools
  How Does the Fed Use Its Monetary Policy Tools to Influence the Economy?
  Fed Explained—Monetary Policy
  Economic Lowdown Video Series—Monetary Policy, part 1: The Fed and the Dual Mandate
  👉In Class Lesson: The Economic Goal of Price Stability (Teacher Only)
  Economic Lowdown Video Series—Monetary Policy, part 2: Two Important Interest Rates in Monetary Policy Implementation
  Economic Lowdown Video Series—Monetary Policy, part 3: Reservation Rate and Arbitrage
  Economic Lowdown Video Series—Monetary Policy, part 4: The Fed in Action
Standard 5: 🌎National Economic Performance
  GDP: Measurement and Growth
  GDP: What is it?
  👉In Class Lesson: The GDP Expenditures Equation: What Is GDP and How Do We Measure It? (Teacher Only)
  The Story of Unemployment
  Measuring Unemployment
  Making Sense of Unemployment Data
  👉In Class Lesson: Unemployment Role Play Activity (Teacher Only)
  Inflation
  A Dollar’s Worth: Inflation Is Real
  👉In Class Lesson: Classroom Inflation Auction Activity (Teacher Only)
  Economic Lowdown Video Series—Externalities
  👉In Class Lesson: Herd Immunity and Positive Externalities (Teacher Only)
  Adjusting for Inflation
  Beyond Inflation Numbers: Shrinkflation and Skimpflation
  Great Inflation
  Banking Basics
  Payment Systems Evolution: How Does Money Move from a Buyer to Seller?
  Personal Finance 101 Conversations—Banks and Alternatives
  👉In Class Lesson: Hamilton's National Bank (Teacher Only)
  Types of Unemployment
  Credit Cards: The Trillion-Dollar Debt
  Making Sense of Private Debt
  What Is the Best Strategy for Paying Off Credit Card Debt?
Standard 6: 📦Trade
  Jack of All Trades: Benefits of Trade
  👉In Class Lesson: A Yen to Trade Unit-Lesson 2: Let's Make a Deal (Teacher Only)
  Jack of All Trades: Absolute Advantage
  Comparative Advantage
  👉In Class Lesson A Yen to Trade-Lesson 3: The Tortoise and the Hare (Teacher Only)
  👉In Class Lesson: A Yen to Trade-Lesson 7: Trading Hurdles (Teacher Only)
  Planet Money: Where Did Your Cotton Come From? Technologies, Subsidies and the Search for Cheap Cotton
  International Trade: Making Sense of the Trade Deficit
  Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor?
  👉In Class Lesson: A Yen to Trade-Lesson 1: Ringgits, Rupees, and Rials (Teacher Only)
  Is a Strong Dollar Better than a Weak Dollar?
Tennessee State Economics Standards (Teacher Only)
  Curriculum alignment (Teacher Only)