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Economics games for Microsoft Word
Trade and Barter: A Trading Simulation
Welcome to the world of economic exchange! Throughout history, people have traded, bartered, negotiated, and haggled in order to receive the greatest amount of goods for the lowest cost. From the direct trade of goods to the use of currency, people have found ways to satisfy their wants and needs. This trade simulation provides students with an opportunity to barter with imaginary resources and goods in order to obtain points. The premise for the simulation is the combination of resources. In th
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6th - 12th
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Supply and Demand T-Shirt Activity
As a group, decide on a design for your t-shirt. Make a design that you think would be popular amongst your classmates.Each group will then decide on a sale price for your t-shirt. Each group will be given $50 to go shopping.Each group will then get a chance to go “shopping” (not for their own shirt) and purchase the shirt(s) of their choice (if you can afford it). A “seller” for your team will keep track of how many shirts were sold. We will then have a second round of shopping where you may
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6th - 12th
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Financial Literacy Game of Life
Students put their financial literacy skills to use in this game of life. Each group is assigned a job with a salary, fixed and variable expenses, opportunities for investment, gains, and losses. Students track their bank balance throughout and on a daily log. It gives students a realistic insight into managing family resources and they enjoy the game and competition aspect of the activity.
(Note: I suggest you start them with a Day One starting balance of $200).
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3rd - 6th
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Monopoly and Big Business Role-Playing Game
In this game, students will take the role of either an oil company or a consumer, with companies producing oil and consumers buying it for the lowest possible price on the market. Companies will vary in size, with the largest company having several advantages. Students will compete against each other in the market, trying to find ways to decrease production costs and will even having the ability to initiate buyouts. The game works great for U.S. History or economics.The document will include
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8th - 11th
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AP Macroeconomics Unit 1.1 Scarcity: A Survival Game
Includes:WordX file for easy manipulationFully formatted lesson plan and procedure with detailed directions.Student Instructional HandoutStudent Exit Ticketother necessary materialsExperience the excitement of the Island Survival Activity, an engaging, interactive, and discovery-based lesson plan that brings the concept of scarcity to life for your AP Macroeconomics students. This hands-on activity places students in collaborative groups, immersing them in a thrilling survival scenario on a remo
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12th
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Early American Trading Systems: A Native American Trading Game
Engage students in a U.S. history and economics lesson through regional trading practices amongst Native American tribes of North America. The simulation is meant to accompany Ch. 1, Sec. 1 of the McDougal Littell text, "The Americas: Reconstruction to the 21st Century." However, it is adaptable for any Native American groups, and therefore adaptable to all grade levels. It is fun and the students really love it!
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6th - 11th
Economics and Personal Financial Literacy Game
My students LOVED this game! In fact, many asked for copies to take home. This is a real world way to teach students about financial responsibility. In this game, students will learn to manage financial resources effectively for lifetime financial security. They will discover:The difference between fixed and variable expenses.How to budget based on salary. How to calculate monthly expenses.How to prepare for financial emergencies by purchasing insurance and saving money. How to allocate a mo
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3rd - 6th
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Create your own BESTSELLING BOARD GAME!
Elevate Classroom Learning by having students design their own board game! Transform your classroom into a dynamic hub of creativity and critical thinking with this innovative project designed to empower high school students in math, economics, and life skills classes. This comprehensive resource sparks imagination, encourages teamwork, and hones essential skills while crafting custom board games.Key Features:Engaging Curriculum Integration: seamlessly blends with math, economics, and life skill
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Economics Coffee Shop Game
Students will Play the Cool Math Coffee Shop Game (free website) to portray the 3 types of economic systems- Command Economy, Market Economy, and Mixed Economy. The command economy limits students from changing the recipe and price. The Market has absolute freedom, and the Mixed has a price ceiling and max amount of Milk that can be used, but otherwise the decision is theirs. Included in this are directions and 3 pages of spreadsheets/worksheets for students to fill in. This game takes about 2 p
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7th - 12th
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Community Helpers Picture Match
Use these cards as an introduction to community helpers, as a center activity, or for an activity the students can do when they finish their work early. If students cannot yet read, leave out the descriptions or have a more advanced student help their classmates. Here are two ways you can use these cards.
1. Use these cards to match pictures of community helpers to their description and to the tools they use.
2. Play a memory game with the cards. Try to match community helpers to their descrip
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PreK - 2nd
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Profit and Loss Activity / Game (Business Studies)
This game is so easy to set up, low tech (paper based), engaging and perfect for relief days or to reinforce previous content.
No more boring rote learning of formulas, this hands-on task teaches students the components of profit/loss and introduces basic accounting and marketing concepts.
Students randomly select colour-coded cards corresponding with fixed and variable costs, quantity sold and price.
Students share their results to determine who is biggest winner / loser in business!
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7th - 10th
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Robber Baron Monopoly Activity Printables
For lessons on monopolies and American Robber Barons, you can use these to hand out to groups of 6 as they play monopoly. Print these on different colored paper, so each member has a different role. Then at the end, have students reflect on how the game went, depending on their role. You don't have to play to completion to know how it went. (Usually my students only get 20-30m to play.
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7th - 12th
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Economic Choices- Island Game
This game gets students to think and plan an economy. Island Game- Teacher Instructions1. Put students into groups and introduce the activity/game. 2. Have students pick their roles/jobs. 3. As students start working through their economic plan begin handing out the problem-solving cards to the teams. This will force them to consider and discuss various scenarios. You could just give one card to each group or multiple cards as the teams continue to discuss. 4. Afterwards, have the students comp
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9th - 12th
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Lesson Plan - Causes of the American Revolution Game
This lesson plan features full instructions and materials needed for an interactive game about the causes of the American Revolution. Before the Revolution started, many economic and social factors went in to the colonists' decision to rebel. Dividing the class into two teams (the Americans and the British), this game creates an interactive simulation of decisions made by both parties at that time based on accurate real-life events. Students will understand how economics and social status pla
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4th - 7th
Saving, Investing, Spending, Taxes - Econ./Finance Concept Games
In this simulation, students will play TWO different online games called "The Wheel of Bummer" and "The Uber Game". They will fill out a comprehension worksheet as they play the game to ensure full attention.In the first, students will be tasked with choosing different insurances and which one will benefit the most. They will then spin the wheel and random crises will happen. The goal is to make it to the end of the game with money. Students will be exposed to topics such as insurance, credit, s
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9th - 12th
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A Loan & Credit Simulation - Econ. & Fiance
In this simulation, students will play the online game called "Shady Sam". In the game, students will be tasked with giving out loans to people with different interest rates and such. The goal is to give out loans that make the most money. Students will be exposed to topics such as loans, credit, interest, saving, etc. This was such a fun activity and my kids LOVED competing with each other to get the highest score. Most of them played it multiple times to fix the mistakes they made the first ti
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9th - 12th
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TAXES Bingo – Bundle
30 different bingo cards with TAX terms.Bundle includes:· TAXES Bingo Playing Cards - Word· TAXES Bingo Playing Cards – PDF· TAXES Bingo - cards you “pull out of the hat” – Word· TAXES Bingo - cards you “pull out of the hat” – PDF· Free resource – chips to cover bingo card
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7th - 12th
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Latin American Maquiladora Mystery for Classroom with Worksheet
DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN CLASS TODAY! How about teaching content AND solve a murder? A crime has been committed. As students sift through the clues they are going to role play within the content you are teaching. This murder mystery covers maquiladora's and industrialization in Mexico. It deals with the effects of NAFTA and other content. It can be used for World Geography and other social studies. YOUR KIDS WILL THANK YOU FOR DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT! These products are not new. Many teach
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9th - 12th
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Stock Market Game
Looking for a self-running, minimal teacher set-up, ready-to-roll digital Stock Market Game with assignments to engage your students? Look no further. I've put in the legwork over a decade of teaching economics at the high school level to create a ready-to-use Stock Market Game Pack based off the Market Watch website's Virtual Stock Market Game. This game is based off of real-time prices of stocks, and the students have shown great levels of interest in it throughout an entire semester. I do
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Budget Game
Students will practice the basic concept of balancing a budget by rolling dice and either adding or subtracting a given amount of money from their balance.
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3rd - 5th
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Economics Mystery for Classroom with Worksheet for Supply and Demand
DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN CLASS TODAY! How about teaching content AND solve a murder? A crime has been committed. As students sift through the clues they are going to role play within the content you are teaching. This murder mystery is set in a factory that has been outsourced to Mexico because of NAFTA. Using that information, students are going solve the murder then draw (and label) Supply and Demand Graphs along with PPC graphs. They are then going to identify Surplus, Equilibrium and Shor
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9th - 12th
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Credit Report: True or False Activity/Game
In this activity, I preview a lecture on credit by having them answer true or false questions, measuring what they already know about credit, and credit reports. I usually turn it into a competition to see who can get the most right. When we go over them as a class, I have them hold up whiteboards with their answer. The answer key for this activity is included, and the document is editable so you can add or take out whatever you would like!
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10th - 12th
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Economic Systems and Economic Development Jigsaw Puzzle! Challenging and Fun!
Do something different in class today! This is a Jigsaw Puzzle that uses economic vocabulary and content to connect the pieces. It teaches content AND problem solving (what a unique concept!) It can be used to teach content or review content. It covers: Capitalism, Command/Communism, Socialism, Traditional Economy, Commercial Economy, Subsistence, Cottage Industry, Developed, Developing, Undeveloped, Agricultural/Primary, Industry/Secondary and Service/Tertiary/Quaternary. Check out the preview
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8th - 12th
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Credit Agency Game
** Pay What You Want **Greetings fellow educator! Thanks for checking out this resource. I set the price for this product at a level that reflects the work I had to put into creating it. BUT! I know that not everyone has the disposable income sitting around to purchase resources. If this resource would enrich your class, just send me an email and I will send you a copy. Please consider leaving a review on the resource to help me promote my work!-- Resource Description --I developed this game as
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9th - 12th
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Economics activities to try
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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.
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