Think Garden: The Product in Produce

This video illustrates how gardening is a way of life for many people. Follow students visiting Oxmoor Farm as they learn about the business of agriculture. Also see how school gardens can teach about economics. Finally, learn more about the growing business of organic gardening.

Think Garden: Edible Economics

This video explains the economics of gardening through a poem. Learn how personal choices – buying produce from a grocery store or farmers market, purchasing supplies like rakes and shovels for a garden, or selling produce from a school or home garden – affect supply and demand.

Think Garden: Buying Local

This video illustrates why it is important to buy local. Follow out of season produce on its journey to the supermarket, and learn about the hidden costs involved. Also visit a local farmers market to see how easy and fun it is to buy local!

The 2008 Wall Street Bailout

This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: "Money, Power and Wall Street" traces the unprecedented decisions made by the U.S. government to intervene in the financial crisis of 2008.

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Bank It or Bust

In this interactive game from What's Up in Finance?, players make financial decisions to help them meet their goal of buying a car.

Bayard Rustin: A Freedom Budget, Part 1

This audio excerpt captures the beginning of Bayard Rustin's 1967 "Freedom Budget" speech, describing the social and economic impact of racism over time.

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Bayard Rustin: A Freedom Budget, Part 2

This audio excerpt from Bayard Rustin's 1967 "Freedom Budget" speech outlines a nine-year plan to end poverty in America.

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Building the Erie Canal

In this video segment adapted from American Experience, learn about the construction of the Erie Canal, the biggest public works project of its time.

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The Business of Credit

Students apply the basics of credit to managing a small business.

The Business of Interest

In this lesson, students learn about loans, interest on and repayment of loans through a model small business interactive.

Campaigns for Economic Freedom

This lesson plan explores the economic impact of racial discrimination and campaigns for jobs and justice.

The Causes of the 2008 Financial Crisis

This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: "Money, Power and Wall Street" explores the changes in the U. S. financial market that ultimately led to the 2008 financial crisis.

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College, Inc.: The Sales and Marketing Story

From FRONTLINE College, Inc., explore the the aggressive marketing practices of for-profit colleges.

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The Dealmakers

In this video segment from What’s Up in Finance?, two teams of high school students learn how to value a company’s equity through a simulation of a mergers and acquisition transaction.

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Decision in the Streets

This video segment, adapted from Decision in the Streets by civil rights filmmaker Harvey Richards, portrays the interracial protests that took place in San Francisco in 1963-64.

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Digging Out of Debt

A college student learns a valuable lesson about excessive credit card debt, and how to deal with the problem, in this video segment from Your Life, Your Money.

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Do It Yourself

A young entrepreneur discusses the responsibilities of managing business income and expenses in this video segment from Your Life, Your Money.

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The Economics of Jim Crow

In this lesson, students learn how the laws and practices of Jim Crow crippled many African Americans and lead to economic destabilization.

Filling Empty Pockets

Students explore the basic concepts of borrowing and credit with an emphasis on credit cards.

Finance and Responsible Lending

In this lesson students learn the role of banks and the criteria they use to determine when to lend money.

Flying Cheap: The Crash of Continental Flight 3407

From FRONTLINE Flying Cheap, correspondent Miles O’Brien investigates safety concerns over major airlines outsourcing flights to regional carriers.

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Get Insured

In this video segment from Your Life, Your Money, an electrician and mother keeps her family and finances secure with a good job and good insurance benefits.

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Green Chic

In this video segment from What’s Up in Finance?, a fashion designer learns the importance of good credit when she borrows money for her budding small business.

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Haiti: Relief Efforts, The Staggering Obstacles

From FRONTLINE The Quake, correspondent Martin Smith travels to Haiti to bear witness to this humanitarian crisis and the ill-coordinated relief efforts on the ground.

Haiti: The Aid Dilemma

From FRONTLINE Haiti: The Aid Dilemma, students will examine post-quake disruptions to supply and demand in Haiti’s rice industry.

Invest in Yourself

Learn the basics of personal financial management including how to manage various income and savings scenarios.

It Costs What?!

In this interactive from What's Up in Finance? four friends experience different financial outcomes when they each buy a digital music player using cash, credit cards or pay overtime.

Putting a Price Tag on Life/How to Measure Pleasure

This second set of video lectures from Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? with Harvard University professor Michael Sandel investigates the philosophy of Utilitarianism through (1) contemporary examples of cost-benefit analysis to find "the greatest good for the greatest number" and (2) a discussion of whether pleasure is quantifiable.

Free to Choose/Who Owns Me?

This third set of video lectures from Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? with Harvard University professor Michael Sandel introduces the Libertarian philosophies that (1) the ideal state is a society with minimal governmental interference and (2) taxing the wealthy is a form of coercion.

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This Land is My Land/Consenting Adults

This fourth set of video lectures from Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? with Harvard University professor Michael Sandel explores the philosophies of John Locke regarding the ideas that (1) every human has rights to life, liberty, and property, and (2) the government can tax individuals without their consent.

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Hired Guns?/For Sale: Motherhood

This fifth set of video lectures from Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? with Harvard University professor Michael Sandel examines questions of free-market exchange in relation to the contemporary issues of (1) war and conscription and (2) reproductive rights.

Leadership on Climate Change: Can America Summon the Political Will?

From FRONTLINE Heat, this video examines whether or not government leaders can summon the political will to address climate change.

Make Your Money Work for You

In this video segment from Your Life, Your Money, an up-and-coming engineer with a new job learns how to manage his money responsibly while living on his own.

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Making It and Keeping It

Hip-Hop mogul Russell Simmons and members of the music community discuss the importance of understanding personal finance at the Get Your Money Right seminar, in this video segment from Your Life, Your Money.

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Moving Out

In this video segment from What’s Up in Finance? college student Eddie Romero consults a financial planner to find a way to pay his bills, pursue a music career, and save for the future.

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Obama's Deal: The Deal Making Begins

From FRONTLINE Obama's Deal, explore the role of negotiations and compromise in passing major reform legislation

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The Origin of Credit

The historical evolution of credit and the purpose of interest are examined in this video segment from The Ascent of Money.

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Poisoned Waters: The Startling New Contaminants

From FRONTLINE Poisoned Waters, this video explores startling new contaminants in our drinking water.

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Rags to Riches

In this interactive from What's Up in Finance? students have to make all the right financial moves to manage their new t-shirt business.

The Real Cost of College

This lesson teaches the basics of budgeting, including understanding how revenue and expenses interact.

Rev. Frank Dukes: Selective Buying Campaign

In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Frank Dukes describes his role in the 1962 boycott of discriminatory stores and businesses.

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Risky Business--or Not!

Find out what it means to buy stock in a company.

Saving for Retirement

A restaurateur working in a family business chooses a retirement savings plan to help prepare for her family’s financial future in this video segment from Your Life, Your Money.

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Sick Around the World

From FRONTLINE Sick Around the World, this video explores what the U.S. can learn from other countries' health systems.

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Southern Africa: Troubled Water

From FRONTLINE/World Southern Africa: Troubled Water, students will explore the problems during the PlayPump rollout and analyze the lessons learned from implementing this foreign aid project.

Taxes--Where Does Your Money Go?

Learn why the government taxes citizens, where the money goes, and how different income brackets pay different taxes.

The Vaccine War: The Growing Debate Over Vaccine Safety

FRONTLINE examines the growing debate over childhood vaccines in The Vaccine War.

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Ways to Save

In this video segment from Your Life, Your Money, a pop singer prepares for the ups and downs of the music industry by strategically saving her money and adjusting her lifestyle.

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What Can I Afford?

Students learn to budget and keep track of expenses to help decide which cell phone plan they can afford.

Young and Restless in China

From FRONTLINE Young and Restless in China, this video explores the costs of work for China's younger generation.

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