Grades 5–12
Economics — Homeschool Nations
Budgets, taxes, and trade become concrete when it's their treasury.
Students set tax rates, balance budgets, and watch inflation, unemployment, and citizen happiness respond in real time.
Learning outcomes
- ✓Build a balanced budget from tax revenue and expenses
- ✓Explain supply, demand, and price in their own words
- ✓Compare tax models and predict citizen response
- ✓Trace how trade agreements move wealth between nations
Bundle chapters
- • Ch. 4 — Your First Budget
- • Ch. 5 — Taxes, Trade, and Supply & Demand
- • Ch. 10 — Technology and Progress
All chapters ship in the full Homeschool Nations bundle.
Lesson ideas you can start today
- 1.Run the nation for one week with taxes at 15%, then at 40%, and journal the difference
- 2.Design a 5-resource trade agreement with a classmate or sibling
- 3.Debate: is a surplus always good?
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