Indiana Economics Standards Alignment
The state of Indiana’s Board of Education publishes a set of educational standards for Economics, and mandates that each high school student must take a dedicated economics course as a graduation requirement. This list is not comprehensive – it lists the materials that specifically align to the 12th grade standards. We have additional activities available based on the 8th grade standards, and all points in between.
Many districts in Indiana will include the Financial Literacy standards in their Economics courses, so our materials are flexible. Teachers can mix and match activities in our Economics curriculum with other activities from our Financial Literacy, Business, and Mathematics tracks to build customized classes that perfectly supplement existing lesson plans.
Activity Type Key:
Articles
Videos
Interactive Calculators
Comprehensive Tools
Includes Built-In Assessment
| Standard | Activity | Activity Type |
| Scarcity and Economic Reasoning | What is Economic Growth? | |
| What is Entrepreneurship? | ||
| What are Incentives? | ||
| What is Economics? | ||
| Why is there Scarcity? | ||
| Comparative Economic Systems – Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism | ||
| Property Rights | ||
| Supply and Demand | What is Demand? | |
| Comparative Economic Systems – Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism | ||
| Supply and Demand Examples in the Stock Market | ||
| What is Supply? | ||
| What are Price Controls? | ||
| Government impact on the economy | ||
| Comparative Advantage | ||
| Market Structures | Corporate Debt | |
| Marginal Benefit and Cost | ||
| Benefits of Competition | ||
| The Role of Government | Government impact on the economy | |
| Externalities | ||
| Fiscal Policy | ||
| National Economic Performance | Major Economic Indicators (GDP, CPI, Jobs) | |
| Gross Domestic Product | ||
| Inflation | ||
| What is Supply? | ||
| The Business Cycle | ||
| Unemployment | ||
| What is Economic Growth? | ||
| What is Demand? | ||
| Money and the Role of Financial Institutions | What is Money? | |
| Monetary Policy | ||
| Banks, Credit Unions, and Savings and Loans | ||
| How is Money Created? | ||
| What is the Federal Reserve? | ||
| Importance of Interest Rates | ||
| Stock Game | ||
| What is an ETF? | ||
| What are Bonds | ||
| What are Futures? | ||
| What is a Stock? | ||
| What is a Mutual Fund? | ||
| What are Spots? | ||
| What are Options? | ||
| Supply and Demand Examples in the Stock Market | ||
| Economic Stabilization | Fiscal Policy | |
| Monetary Policy | ||
| Government impact on the economy | ||
| What is the Federal Reserve? | ||
| Trade | Comparative Advantage | |
| International trade |