This publication provides secondary business teachers with strategies and lists resources for involving students in activities that will develop a better understanding of the American free enterprise system. The activities are organized under 14 basic economic concepts selected because they will enable students to learn the relationship between economic affairs and their personal lives and why and how businesses are organized and operated to produce the goods and services that our society needs and wants. The concepts are resource scarcity, human resources, opportunity cost/trade-offs, problem solving and decision making, natural resources, effective use of credit, competition, the role of profit, the role of finance, business cycles, technological growth and development, social responsibility, the role of government, and international trade. Students are involved in many activities. They view and discuss films, play games, and do library research on current statistical information on the total working force in the United States. Other examples of activities are having students write a paper on how they feel about the work ethic, listen to guest speakers from an employment agency and debate the statement "technology is the answer to economic problems." Also included in the publication is a glossary and an annotated listing of print and nonprint materials. (Author/RM)