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Grade 8-9, 10-12
Subject Career Education, Cross-Curricular, Mathematics
Resource type Activity, Lesson plan/Unit plan

About This Resource

You Are the Economy is a set of six lessons and activities that explore economic and financial literacy and are designed to fit within social studies, history, geography, economics, business and career courses. The lessons are for students in Grades 7–12.

Each lesson features interactive teaching strategies and uses data from the Bank of Canada and other trusted sources to get your students thinking and talking about economics and personal finances.

Use all the resources or choose the lessons that best suit your classroom. Each lesson has resources to help you walk your students through key concepts, and includes a discussion guide and a comprehensive answer key.

You Are The Economy: See the economy from a whole new perspective—yours

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