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Economics projects for Microsoft Word
ECONOMICS AND PERSONAL FINANCE (EPF) - WHOLE COURSE by Just Add Teacher
Based directly on the new North Carolina Economic and Personal Finance (EPF) curriculum, this Bundle has absolutely EVERYTHING you need to teach Economics and Personal Finance in a single semester with NO BOOK NEEDED, Just Add Teacher. NOTE: This is NOT a pay-as-you go or a “I’ll update later” curriculum. It is 100% complete and ready to be used and owned by you permanently. Described below is a detailed breakdown of everything you will receive in this bundle. Click HERE to follow Just Add Teach
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
"Shark Tank" Business Project and Presentation
Based off the hit TV Show “Shark Tank,” student’s innovation, teamwork, problem solving and critical thinking skills are put to the test by creating a new business in your local market and developing a business plan to sell to an adult panel (aka the shark tank or instructor). This project does it all! It serves as a great way to connect community and business partnerships into the classroom as they can serve as mentors or as a “shark.” The project starts with student choice and they work to
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Flour Sack Baby Project
This is a wonderful project that not only teaches students responsibility, but also the costs associated with a baby and the challenges it poses to anyone's lifestyle. This project has students research information as well as around a flour sack baby for a week and documenting their experience in their journal and family photo album.
Some of the things included in this project are:
1. a letter that can be sent home to parents a week prior to the start of the project givin
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9th - 12th
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Economics GDP and Standard of Living CIA World Factbook Stats Project
In this activity, students use the CIA World Factbook, to examine two different countries, the United States and a country of their choice. After teaching about GDP, I have students look at other economic indicators related to standard of living to show that GDP should not be the only measure of how well an economy is functioning. Students use the world factbook site to find the statistics including poverty rate, contraceptive rate, imports and exports, etc. Students also find where the U.S. ra
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10th - 12th
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Business Shark Tank Project and Supplemental Activities/Worksheets
This project includes step by step, day by day, teacher instructions, supplemental activity worksheets, including a Shark Tank episode guide, a Shark Tank product analysis activity, a brainstorm worksheet for product development, and a project information sheet including directions and check list requirements for the business plan, shark tank pitch, and advertisement. I use this project with my high school economics students during the business unit. It is my absolute favorite project because
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8th - 12th
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Buying A House: Mortgage and Interest Rates Assignment
Engage students in understanding home mortgages, interest rates and more by having the students research and select a future home. Students really enjoy searching the housing market and finding out the costs of houses. This project helps students understand the reality buying a house, the effects of length of borrowing, interest rates, down payments and credit scores.
Links are provided to help students find homes. The worksheet and summary questions are easy to follow. Take advantage of
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9th - 12th
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Economics Unit and Mini-Society Resources!
This Economics Unit and Mini-Society packet covers Georgia Performance Standards:
SS3E1 The student will describe the four types of productive resources: a. Natural (land), b. Human (labor), c. Capital (capital goods), d. Entrepreneurship (used to create goods and services)
SS3E2 The student will explain that governments provide certain types of goods and services in a market economy and pay for these through taxes and will describe services such as schools, libraries, roads, police/fire pro
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2nd - 5th
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SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE
Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit. Let’s begin our entrepreneurial careers today!
Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.
Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience:
• Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled.
• Construct a prototyp
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4th - 8th
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Budgeting Project - Personal Finance
CORONAVIRUS LESSON: This would be a good lesson for students who have to do their work at home. It's self directed and most have the software to complete it. Good luck teachers in this tough time!LET STUDENTS CREATE THEIR OWN BUDGETS! This is a budgeting simulation that is designed to be used with Powerpoint or Google Slides. Students create 22 slides about their own budget when they are 25 years old. Students do the research for the content on all slides. This is a great project as a pr
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9th - 12th
Budget Spreadsheet Project (personal finance & math skills)
A step-by-step project with detailed instructions on how to set up an Excel spreadsheet budget. Students will apply math skills in context of a real-life budgeting situation.
Students will create a budget:
-Based on their future career choice.
-Independently by following the instructions using an Excel Spreadsheet.
-Over the course of at least 2 class periods (typically students take at least 2.5 hours to complete this project).
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6th - 12th
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Economics: Small Business Project
This is a multiple-day small business project for students. It was created for an economics course, but could be used in a business course as well. It is a step by step project where the students will create their own business. They have daily worksheets that will help them walk through the steps of creating a business while learning the terminology. In the end, they will create a presentation for a possible investor and present it to the class, much like they do on the show, "Shark Tank."
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7th - 12th
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Carnival Game Economics PBL Project-Based Learning GATE
Smaller tasks add up to big, big learning with this gold medal standard project-based learning activity! What a sneaky cool way to learn math, economics, and functional design! (Insert evil teacher laugh.) It’s a hands-on approach to Common Core Standards.
In Carnival Game Economics, students design a carnival skill game and gather data as junior market researchers during the test phase. They’ll use this data to help make decisions. After making calculations for probability, students will
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4th - 7th
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Buying a Car - A Personal Finance Powerpoint Project Simulation
CORONAVIRUS LESSON: This would be a good lesson for students who have to do their work at home. It's self directed and most have the software to complete it. Good luck teachers in this tough time!LET STUDENTS learn about buying their first Car! "4 Wheels at 18" This is a simulation that is designed to be used with Powerpoint or Google Slides. Students create 15 slides associate with purchasing, financing, and the maintenance of their first car. Students do the research for the content on
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9th - 12th
T-Shirt Entrepreneurs PROJECT BASED LEARNING Math Economics GATE 4-8th
Your students will be excited for this “gold medal standard” project-based math, design, and economics activity. It’s appropriate and adaptable for 4th – 8th grade. It has been a staple for my 4th grade gifted and talented math group since 2013.You won’t be the sage on the stage. Students will problem-solve their way through the project working in collaborative teams, and the teacher will guide, be a resource, spur discussion, play devil’s advocate, and provide mini lessons when necessary.In
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class BUNDLE - Math Focus Hours of Hands-on Projects GATE Gifted
The Cost of Growing Up: A career focused personal finance project
Recently reformatted as an editable Word document. This project allows students to individually research a future profession and walks them through the math to figure out a monthly paycheck. Once there, the students are able to research a home, car, and other necessities all while determining whether or not they will be able to afford them. This is a great project for those in the state of Georgia attempting to fulfill the fifth grade career requirement or anyone wanting to help give their stu
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4th - 8th
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Business Plan and Entrepreneurship Project for Elementary School
Overview: Students will develop and operate a business. Students will conduct market research, analyze the results, develop a business plan, and implement the business. After each day of operation, students will determine profits and losses based on their expenditures and sales. Students will graph and analyze the results to make decisions for their business.
The business described below was a “movie theater” my students ran during the last weeks of school. Students who earned the privi
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3rd - 5th
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Baseball Budgeting Assignment AKA The Money Ball Project
This project I based on the film Moneyball which my students and I watched in class. After watching Moneyball and answering some questions on the film, I put my students in the shoes of Billy Beane (Or Brad Pitt in the event of the movie) Students will have to be a GM for their very own major league baseball team. Now, sadly as much as I am a Yankees fan, the students will not have the Yankees billion dollar budget. Or the Red Sox. Or the Dodgers. No, students will be operating on the lowest bud
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Company Research Project
This project is completely editable. It includes a project guideline and a grading rubric. Students will research a company and then present it to the class. This project focuses on presentation skills!
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7th - 12th
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AP Human Geography: Industry Mapping Activity
This AP Human Geography (APHG) project is a great way to have a hands on activity. Students learn about a country's GDP and major exports with this activity. Aligns with AP objectives about development, industry, services, and globalization. It also builds student skills with mapping and map analysis. This activity will also work for any global studies or economics course.The table is full of data. Data just not visible on preview.Images and information borrowed from other sources include citati
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: AP Human Geography Full Year Bundle - Lectures, Assessments, Strategies
North America Geography Football Franchise Creation Project
The "Made Up North American Football League" gives students the opportunity to choose a city in the United States or Canada and create a football franchise based there. The project works best in association with a unit on North America, or two units on U.S. geography and Canada geography so they have general background knowledge on regions and cities to draw from. (I have also made a version for a Canada/U.S./Mexico version)*The project file linked is a docx, so you can change examples of my own
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7th - 10th
Industrial Era and Gilded Age Project (Robber Barons or Captains of Industry)
A social studies project where students will research and investigate various entrepreneurs from the Industrial Era or Gilded Age to determine whether they were Robber Barons or Captains of Industry. Through this student centered project, students will practice research skills and then using that information to make their own determination of an essential question, "Were the biggest entrepreneurs of the late 19th and early 20th century robber barons or captains of industry?" Students will work
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6th - 12th
Editable Careers Project Assignment & Rubric
This multi-disciplinary project allows students to explore a career. I created it to help students discover the educational requirements, the employment history, the application process, and the typical lifestyle led by someone with that career. The project takes between 6-8 weeks to complete but is well worth it. I believe it helped students realize the value of an education and inspired many to take school a lot more seriously. Rubric included. Related materials (lesson plans, samples of
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Budget Project: My Life for 1 Year After High School
This project is designed for high school SDC students and is scaffolded appropriately.
This budget project is a great assignment for high school seniors learning how to create a monthly budget. This project begins one month after graduation and asks students to create a budget including projected income, expenses and savings goals. The project is a real eye opener for students and helps them to understand what they can realistically afford working part time.
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9th - 12th
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Fair-Trade Chocolate Mini-Research Projects
This lesson includes a culminating project for a mini-unit I like to teach in the weeks in advance of Halloween to raise awareness about the problem of widespread child slavery and trafficking in the global cocoa industry mostly centered in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana.I teach this unit during my semester-long Latin America & the Caribbean unit in which I focus on many world historical products that define social and economic relations internationally such as sugar, bananas, and coffee. The choco
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6th - 12th
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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.
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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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