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If you want to test your Internet skills try your hand at the following Economics Scavenger Hunts. These scavenger hunts come from Doug Haskell at The Greater Cincinnati Center for Economic Educatioin.
Use web-based search engines, economic education web pages, your own ingenuity and (if necessary) the hints below to answer the following questions.
1. How many content statements make up the Voluntary National Content Standards in economics?
2. Suppose you are preparing a lesson for fourth-grade students on productivity and
you would like to use crayon production as an example. You need to know the
primary ingredients for making Crayola crayons. What are they?
3. Suppose you are teaching a unit on the economics of running a zoo. A student is
interested in adding a rare bird, Attwater's Prairie Chicken, to the class' zoo
collection. How may of the species are left in the wild?
4. Who are the presidents of the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Cleveland?
5. When was Greece admitted to the United Nations?
6. What is the per capita income for the following countries?
a. Canada
b. Costa Rica
c. Mexico
d. United States
7. What building is located on the back side of the $100 bill?
8. Who is the chairman of the board of governors of the Fed?
9. Suppose you wanted to find a money equivalents activity for K-3, where would you find one?
10. Where did Professor Sylvester (Roger) get the riddles?
1 http://www.economicsamerica.org
2 http://www.crayola.com
3 http://zooweb.net/apc
4 http://www.bog.frb.fed.us
5 http://www.un.org
6 http://www.1stkids.com/countries/namerica.html
7 http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/econed/curric/pictures.html
8 http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/bios/
9 http://www.plan.ml.com/family/teachers/money.html
10 http://www.1stkids.com/answers.html
Hunt #2 The Great Economics Internet Scavenger Hunt Copyright ©1997. National Council on Economic Education, 1140 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036.
Use web-based search engines, economic education web pages, your own ingenuity, and (if necessary) the hints below to answer the following questions.
1. If in 1965 you could buy a candy bar for ten cents, how much would it cost you in 1997?
2. What is an Albanian Lek worth in terms of U.S. dollars?
3. Suppose you are preparing a lesson for fourth-grade students on productivity and you would like to use crayon production as an example. You need to know the two primary ingredients for making Crayola crayons. What are they?
4. What is the change in the Consumer Price Index over the past twelve months?
5. What is the value of the outstanding public debt?
6. Suppose you are teaching a unit on the economics of running a zoo. A student is interested in adding a rare bird, Attwater’s Prairie Chicken, to the class’ zoo collection. How many of the species are left in the wild?
7. Your class is playing The Stock Market Game™. A student wants to know the stock symbol for Nike. What is it?
8. What is the current value of Nike stock?
9. You are teaching advanced placement economics and you’d like your students to review an analysis of the Dole and Clinton deficit reduction plans. In what year does the Fairmodel indicate the Dole plan would have achieved a balanced budget?
10. How many marxists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
- http://www.woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/econed/
- http://www.oanda.com
- http://www.crayola.com
- http://stats.bls.gov
- http://www.brillig.com:8080/debt_clock
- http://www.zooweb.net/apc/
- http://www.wsrn.com
- same as above
- http://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu
- http://www.etla.fi/pkm/JokEc