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4th grade economics activities
The Great Depression: A Saving and Spending Game
Students work together in small groups to make decisions about how to save or spend their money during the Great Depression. They will see what it is like to have a well-paying job and then lose most of their money in the stock market crash of 1929. They will have to find a new job, a place to live (hobo camp or boxcar), and figure out how to provide for their family with very little.Students will have to subtract their bills from their total amount of money using a spending ledger (provided).
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4th - 8th
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Game of Life- budget simulation
In just one class period, your students will not only understand the importance of creating and sticking to a budget, but also practice creating one!- Students are randomly given a "career card" with correlating annual salary and average student loan debt, if applicable. - They will then use a chart to determine how much of their salary will be taken out in the form of federal tax withholding, state tax withholding, social security, and medicare. - They'll then be given a set of choice cards (
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4th - 10th
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Market Day: Economics Project for Big Kids, Budget, Unit
This complete activity comes with all the resources needed to host a fantastic Market Day experience for your students. They will dive deep into learning about how a business works and many different aspects that go into a business. This product is great for upper elementary classroom and combines math, social studies, and creativity for the ultimate learning experience! Includes: *family letter*printables for solo vs. partner business, location advantages, * budget pages*product development p
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3rd - 6th
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Economics Unit - Activities, Graphic Organizers, & Projects | Print and Digital
This is an engaging economics unit that students will love! There 20 fun activities and skill building worksheets to make economics meaningful to students. Economic concepts taught:goods and servicestypes of resources (natural, human, capital)entrepreneurproducerconsumertaxessupply and demandtrade and barteringimports and exportscompetitionThese lessons have been written so that each lesson builds upon the previous lesson, so it is beneficial to teach the lessons in the order listed in the tabl
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3rd - 4th
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3rd Grade Social Studies Curriculum Michigan YEAR LONG Units
A full year of Michigan themed social studies that is aligned for third graders using Michigan standards. These units align with the MC3 curriculum as well. GOOGLE DRIVE ACCESS LINKS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE PDF DOWNLOAD ON THE GOOGLE DRIVE ACCESS PAGEALL UNITS INCLUDE ACCESS TO DIGITAL VERSIONS OF ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES VIA GOOGLE DRIVE LINKSCheck out a Michigan Social Studies lesson FREEBIE before you buy!All Units Include:Lesson PlansComprehension PagesVocabulary CardsAssessmentsSuggested Rea
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2nd - 4th
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Economics Comprehension Passages
Learn all about economics with this resource that includes close reading, an interactive notebook and comprehension passages. This economics resource includes a total of 9 passages for students to gain a deeper understanding of economics and common economics terms.Includes both a printable version and a digital version in Google Slides!The first 3 informational passages review and define economic terms and ideas. Each of the 3 passages has an accompanying interactive notebook template for note
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4th - 6th
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Bartering Activity with an Interactive Economics Game: Barter, Trade, Create!
Are your students learning about bartering? This game will have students practice their bartering skills!The object of the game is to get a home, clothing, and food (meat/fish/eggs, bread, AND vegetables). You may barter goods or combine cards to make what you need. A video is now included with instructions for both basic and advanced game play. It is always a bit challenging to learn how to play a new game by reading instructions, so I have created a video overview so that you can familiarize y
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Economics for Kids BUNDLE
Personal Finance for Kids| Financial Literacy
⭐️Teaching financial literacy and personal finance to primary students can be a bit tricky. This resource is a great way to introduce students to real world concepts! Personal Finance Packet made fun for students with real world examples. ✅Help Monica with her chore list to save money for a new bike! -I've included 2 versions if you want to have a bigger calendar for students. ✅Students create their own prices for a chore chart and fill in the calendar. This can be done independent or with a par
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Financial Literacy| Personal Finance Bundle
Holiday Economics Christmas Project Based Learning PBL Wants Needs Goods Service
Looking for a fun way to teach your economics unit to your students? This Christmas project based learning unit is a fun way to embrace the holiday craziness & turn your classroom into a North Pole workshop! In this PBL unit, your students will learn about wants and needs, goods and services, producers and consumers, and so much more! ⭐The overall objective of this unit is to turn your students into entrepreneurs and your classroom into a North Pole workshop!⭐You will teach various social st
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K - 5th
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Classroom Economy EDITABLE Bundle: An Educational Classroom Management Tool
Over 250 pages! This Classroom Economy Super Bundle is your one-stop-shop for getting started with a classroom economy to promote personal accountability and financial responsibility! Implementing a classroom economy is a fun and educational way to promote making good choices while teaching students about money management. Students earn money through a classroom job and bonuses by making good choices on a daily basis. Then students have opportunities throughout the year to buy things at a cl
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2nd - 8th
Goods and Services Activities & Worksheets - 2nd & 3rd Grade Economics Lessons
Looking for fun and engaging economics lessons to teach your 2nd and 3rd-grade students all about goods and services? This economics activity pack is just the thing! This resource contains easy-to-follow economics lessons to help you teach your class about goods and services. This product includes lesson plans, introduction slides, activities, worksheets, vocabulary, materials for early finishers, and homework suggestions. Just print and go so that you do not have to spend time planning your eco
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1st - 4th
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Classroom Economy & Banking Unit Yearlong BUNDLE for Grades 4-6
Immerse your 4th and 5th graders in a real life yearlong classroom economy where they build financial literacy by living it each day. Students will use decimal addition and subtraction skills as they earn classroom cash, spend, earn, and save money. They will learn how to write checks and fill out a check ledger, pay bills and fines, manage their checking and savings accounts, earn paychecks and really understand their choices of spending and saving. Student banker-leaders will operate your cla
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4th - 6th
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Economics BUNDLE | Presentations and Google Slides Activities
Students will learn about important economic concepts in an engaging way with these presentations and google slides activities! The activities involve matching, sorting, labeling, and occasionally typing in google slides. Each product comes with a Google Forms quiz. Please look at the previews for each product before you purchase! This resource is not editable. Concepts Covered:- wants and needs- goods and services- producers and consumers- scarcity- opportunity cost- supply and demand- competit
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2nd - 5th
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Touch Money Packet
Touch Money is a great way to teach your students how to count groups of coins! I use this with my special learners who benefit from the visuals of touch points. This packet includes:-Front & back touch money posters-Draw the touch points on the coins (4 pages)-Draw the line to front/back of the matching coin (6 pages)-Write the coin name/amount (4 pages)-Cut/paste counting groups of coins WITH touch points (15 pages)-Counting groups of coins WITH touch points (15 pages)-Cut/paste counting g
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K - 12th
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Also included in: Touch Money Bundle for Special Education
Great Depression ESCAPE ROOM: Dust Bowl, Roaring Twenties, Stock Market
The Great Depression Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about the Great Depression, stock market, Dust Bowl, the Roaring Twenties and FDR. This Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes. The codes include ciphers, Morse code, cryptograms and a final 4 digit code based on the decoders/clues.What’s Included?✏️ 4 Reading Passages✏️ 4 Puzzle Phrases to Decode✏️ 4 Decoders✏️ 4 Diffe
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: 20 US History ESCAPE ROOMS BUNDLE - Reading Comprehension
2nd Grade Social Studies & Economics - Barter & Trade Lessons & Activities
Teaching your 2nd grade students about barter and trade couldn't be easier with this jammed-pack economics resource! This 2nd-grade social studies resource contains easy-to-follow lessons to help you teach your class about different families around the world. They will learn that families barter and trade goods and services to get the things they need. Your students will also learn what scarcity is and how people around the world can help those in need. This product includes barter and trade les
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2nd - 4th
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Shark Tank Project - Creating a Digital Business Entrepreneurship Project
Do you have what it takes to impress the Sharks? In this digitally focused project, students will be immersed in a variety of free, online tools including: Google Workspace, DOCS, SITES, SLIDES, Canva, & More!Based on the hit show, "Shark Tank", students will experience what it's like as an entrepreneur as they research product or service ideas, identify a specific market, and use individual creativity to create a simple business plan, design a logo for their business, as well as a digital t
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4th - 9th
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3rd Grade Social Studies Interactive Notebook BUNDLE
This is the bundled version of my Social Studies Interactive Notebooks. The bundled version comes at a discounted price.
The sets included in this bundle are:
Geography & Regions Interactive NotebookCulture & Human Systems Interactive NotebookEconomics Interactive NotebookGovernment & Civics Interactive Notebook
If you have purchased all of the sets individually, please do not purchase again.
These sets are aligned to Florida's social studies standards. They would also be appr
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2nd - 4th
4th Grade Social Studies Economics Curriculum Unit Google Slides
4th grade Social Studies Curriculum themed in Economics and includes lesson plans, reading passages, assessments, activities, and more. Each activity is also linked and downloadable to Google Drive for use in Google Classroom or other platforms. Unit correlates to concepts in the MC3 curriculum and meets Michigan Social Studies standards. Lessons are typically taught over a two day span.UPDATE: All files have been edited and updated where necessary!GOOGLE DRIVE ACCESS LINKS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE
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3rd - 5th
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Touch Money Bundle for Special Education
This is a BUNDLE pack of all of my Touch Money resources! Grab them all at a discounted price by purchasing the bundle!Using touch money resources is a great way to teach students with special needs how to identify and count mixed groups of coins! These resources are differentiated and adapted to best fit your learners needs.If you purchase this product, PLEASE remember to leave feedback for TPT credits towards future purchases! For more ideas to work with your special learners, visit my blog @
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K - 5th
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Wants & Needs, Goods & Services, Producers & Consumers | Google Slides
Teach important economic concepts with this 12 slide presentation. It includes real images and discussion questions to spark great conversations in your classroom! Students can then show what they know by completing the 5 interactive google slides activities which you can assign to Google Classroom! *This product is part of a BUNDLE*This resource is not editable. Included:Google Slides presentation covering wants, needs, goods, services, producers, and consumers5 interactive google slides activi
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Economics BUNDLE | Presentations and Google Slides Activities
Deserted Island- A Needs and Wants Activity
Deserted Island- A Needs and Wants Activity:Students are deserted on an island and must determine if objects are needs and wants in order to survive. Working in groups, different scenarios will change what objects are selected. Students will also be able to add their own objects and complete a writing piece to explain their reasoning. This needs and wants activity is great to use in small groups, as an introduction to or assessment to teaching needs and wants.**Please use the new page 10 in t
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1st - 4th
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Paper Airplane Factory: An Assembly Line Game
This activity is to be used after teaching the students that natural resources can be used to make goods. These goods are often made in factories that utilize assembly lines. This game gives students the opportunity to participate in the assembly line process of creating paper air planes. This file contains directions for the game as well as job description cards for all of the assembly line workers. This activity would be a great hands on addition to your goods and services social studies u
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2nd - 5th
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Economy 101 Lapbook Unit
***UPDATED NOVEMBER 2012****
Are you looking for a way to make Social Studies Reading more fun and still teach Common Core Standards? Lapbooks and fold-its are a great way to do just that! With these fold-its, you can create a complete Economy lapbook or add the fold-its to your student's social studies notebooks!
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-8 reading selections (one for each fold-it). Each are full page or half page, so you can turn them into student books.
Lapbook Cover
I Am A Consumer” Accordion
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2nd - 5th
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Find Economics resources | TPT
If you’re an educator or parent looking for printable or digital resources to help your student learn about economics, TPT has got you covered. We’ve got a comprehensive collection of economics and financial literacy resources available, including activities and lessons on trade, goods and services, and the stock market to name just a few. With plenty of TPT high-quality resources at your fingertips, you’ll be able to teach economics to your students in no time at all.
Economics activities to try
Here are a few examples of the different types of activities and lessons you can find on TPT to help teach students about economics:
Simulation Activities
You can introduce students to the world of investing, budgeting, and other economics-related activities through simulations. For example, have students research companies they want to "invest" in to show them how the stock market works. If you want to extend the lesson, you can have them periodically check in on their portfolios throughout the year to see how their investments are performing. Or, you could use a simulation to teach them about causes that led up to certain major historical events, like the stock market crash of 1929.
Budgeting Exercises
Help students understand the importance of managing their own financial resources by challenging them to create a budget. Give them a few hypothetical scenarios involving income, expenses, and financial goals. For example, you could ask them to plan a fictional character's monthly expenses, or have them create a budget to save for buying a house.
Trade Games
Through trading games, students can learn about importing and exporting, along with the impact of external forces and trade agreements. Ask students to work in teams and have them trade goods, record their imports and exports, and respond to charges (like tariffs and embargoes).
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Give students a real-world decision to make (e.g., building a new road, investing in a new technology, or buying property) and have them perform a cost-benefit analysis. To deepen the learning, you can ask them to justify their decisions with evidence.
Frequently asked questions for teaching economics
What is economics?
The study of economics is a social science that focuses on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. When teaching economics, the goal is to help students understand how individuals, businesses, governments, and societies make choices about resource allocation. Economics explores various topics related to this, including supply and demand, cost and benefits, and scarcity, to name just a few.
What types of economics resources are available on TPT?
There are many different types of economics resources sold by Sellers on TPT — from budgeting activities to simulation games to units.
How do I find economics resources on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing economics lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for economics resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
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