Facing the Future offers a number of helpful lesson plans on global issues, including environmental degradation, poverty, and consumption.

A number of lessons plans on globalization issues, including development, women, and environment, are available from the Center for Strategic and International Studies .

“A Case Study: United States International Trade in Goods and Services,” from Econedlink is a lesson plan in which students examine recent data on U.S. imports and exports.

Is free trade really as beneficial as many textbooks suggest? For a readable analysis of the case of Mexico, see “NAFTA’s Untold Stories: Mexico’s Grassroots Responses to North American Integration,” by Timothy A. Wise. (pdf file)

Marketplace: Let’s Go Euro! from EconEdLink available at provides a classroom activity on the history of the euro and issues arising from its use.