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Free economics simulations
Bank Account: The Checkbook Project class economy financial literacy
The Checkbook Project pumps life into a classroom the way the Paycheck Protection Program pumped cash into Corporate America. It improves test scores, inspires the entrepreneurial spirit, and even turns your most-challenging students into pussycats. We know, almost no one writes checks anymore, but The Checkbook Project isn’t about checks or paper money. It’s about creating an economic infrastructure in your classroom. It teaches financial literacy and real-world math skills while serving as an
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4th - 8th
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Life on Minimum Wage - Personal Finance Game for Students
The purpose of Life on Minimum Wage is for students to recognize how difficult it is to save money when your only job(s) pay minimum wage without benefits. To win at Life on Minimum Wage the students have to reach five financial goals that they select. To earn money the students have to complete the tasks of their assigned jobs. The students then have to pay required bills before using money for their selected financial goals. As the game progresses students will be issued "surprise" cards which
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5th - 10th
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Financial Literacy: Understanding the Stock Market - 3 Activities! - Grades 3-5
3 activities that help students understand the stock market! No prior knowledge needed!
The stock market is very complex, but is an essential life skill. This file contains 1 introductory page that briefly defines a stock market and 3 introductory activities. The activities are watered-down simulations of buying and selling stock. The activities introduce students to stock price changes, profit, stock brokers, and commission. The activities are very student-friendly and engaging and are me
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3rd - 6th
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Financial Literacy Video Game - HTML5 Distance Learning (Educator Free Trial)
Video Game about Personal Finance, Investing, Money Management, & Budgeting. An evidence-based, hand drawn visual-novel personal finance simulation game for High School and Young Adults that teaches financial literacy skills. Free Educator Trial Version! Obtain access to a free version of the game just because you're awesome! Test out 21st century game based learning for yourself before purchasing for use in your classroom. This is a trial copy available only to educators for classroom testi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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INTERACTIVE: Navigate Your Online Bank Account
In this activity, students will use an online simulation to practice monitoring balances, reading statements, doing online transfers and paying bills using online banking. They might even feel the sting of overdraft fees too!
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7th - 12th
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Financial Literacy: Understanding the Stock Market - 3 Activities! - Grades 6-Up
3 activities that help students understand the stock market! No prior knowledge needed!
The stock market is very complex, but is an essential life skill. This file contains 1 introductory page that briefly defines a stock market and 3 introductory activities. The activities are watered-down simulations of buying and selling stock. The activities introduce students to stock price changes, profit, stock brokers, and commission. The activities are very student-friendly and engaging and are meant t
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6th - 9th
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Checkbook Register Project
Teach kids the importance of keeping a balanced bank account by making their grade depend on it! For the duration of my personal financial literacy unit, everything (going to the restroom, borrowing supplies, etc.) costs kids money, and they can earn money, too! If their account is in the negative at the end of the unit, they receive a failing test grade.
Students learn the value of keeping up with their money, budgeting, and not being frivolous. You'll also likely notice your classes' behavio
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9th - 12th
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Fun Free-Market (Capitalism) Simulation - (Distance Learning)
In this fun free-market simulation, students learn the basics of the free-market by participating in an imaginary market where they negotiate sales. They learn that everything in a free-market-- prices, what is made, how it is made, and who buys it-- is determined by the interactions between free consumers and free suppliers. Kids also learn the relationship between price and the number of consumers or suppliers; and they learn how monopolies and oligopolies can rig the market. Perfect to introd
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Classroom Management - Money, Economy, Cash, Currency - Classroom Currency ONES
*Note: You will be taken to our site, ClassCrown.com, for full download of this product.*If you're looking for a fun and effective way to manage your students while teaching them about economies and markets then look no further. This fun, space themed classroom currency is a perfect starting point to establish your classroom economy. Includes:• One marked classroom currency sheet (single currency denomination)Features:• High Quality PDF format• Currency page in black and white so you can print o
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1st - 10th
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Banking and the Great Depression: a Collaborative U.S. History Simulation
This simulation is a ready-to-go simulation in which students run a bank to understand how leveraging works and how disastrous a run on the banks can be. It is geared for a unit on the Great Depression, but could be modified for any economics course. It does a fantastic job of helping students understand a complex economic process.
This simulation is incredibly interactive and asks students to take responsibility for their own banks. This sort of collaboration and critical thinking is what t
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11th - 12th
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Scarcity and Supply & Demand Lessons
Project our software onto your wall and conduct the liveliest, most intriguing lessons ever! Our online lessons stream directly into your classroom. Scarcity and Supply & Demand made EASY and FUN in a format kids will love. Clear, simple, and complete lesson plans make you expert in economics with no prior knowledge or experience. Enjoy!
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6th - 9th
M&M Inflation Demonstration Game
Purpose: To demonstrate the impact of inflation on prices, and Gresham's law.
Length: 30-40 minutes (or longer, if vigorous conversation)
Materials needed:
2-5 lb. Bag of M&M candies (or Skittles, etc.)
Box of small ziplock baggies, putting five M&Ms in each bag, with five baggies for each student
Printouts of “M&M Bucks,” five coupons for each student (attached below is a sheet with 6 on each page) plus the same number (as the whole class) more for “government.”
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Cookie Assembly Line Simulation
Dear Teacher, This is an enjoyable simulation you can do if you are learning about the Industrial Revolution or American technology. It is designed to simulate what an assembly line would look like, and compare the product to a small “artisan goods” business. Give your students different jobs for frosting, decorating, and packaging cookies. This is an interactive way to get kids thinking about the reasons behind what made the assembly line so popular, but also some of the drawbacks as well. IMPO
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Introduction to Economics Simulation
Introduce your students to economics and the concept of rational decision-making with this free simulation and game. Students will learn about marginal decision-making by weighing opportunity costs and benefits.
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9th - 12th
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Supply and demand
A classroom activity where student build their own demand and supply curves based on what they are willing to pay (or be paid) for a clean room. Students must reason quantitatively and use units common in economics to solve problems in market equilibrium. Algebra- linear equations, systems of equations, and functions.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Feudalism/Traditional Economy Simulation Activity
Feudalism/Traditional Economy Simulation for middle school through high school. Students are assigned different roles and are given supplies they need based on their role (King/Queen get everything they need plus more. Peasants/Serfs get very little). Students must trade and barter with others in order to get the materials they need to "survive".You can edit the materials that are used to fit the items that you have in your classroom.
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5th - 12th
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Mouse Money: Play Money for the Classroom
Use this cute Mouse Money for economic activities, incentives, and games. This play money design uses a realistic currency background with a central portrait of a cute mouse. Use different colored paper or shrink print size to fit your specific needs.
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Economics Vocabulary & Activity Pac
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K - 12th
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Month Budget Spreadsheet for Personal Financial Literacy
This document is part of a project that requires students to budget a month of their lives using different expenses and a job of their choosing. The "Budgeting Project" requires two links, which are included on the slides, which can be found on my TPT store.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Money Management & Budgeting Bundle
Stocks Simulation Game Directions & Questions for Personal Financial Literacy
This document is part of a game that requires four students to simulate the growth of a stock of their choosing, compete against their peers and reflect on the risk and their opinions of the stock market. The "Stocks Simulation Game" can be found on my TPT store. This game requires two links, which are provided on this document.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Investing & Stocks Bundle
Joint Stock Company Mock Trading Game -Invest in Ships over 5 years small groups
In this simulation, small groups of students decide on how they will spread $3,000 across 5 different European ships that are sailing around the world to pick up goods for joint-stock companies in the 1600s. Each year, over five years, 3 ships make it back to Europe and 2 don't. As the students' money (hopefully) grows they can invest their total proceeds into new choices the following year. The teacher serves as moderator for the investors who meet as groups in a local coffee house each spring
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9th - 12th
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Try and Survive (Great Depression Simulation)
Thank you for checking out my Great Depression Simulation. This lesson takes little to no prep and is a great way for students to simulate the tough conditions of the Great Depression.Please Rate if your students enjoyed this activitySimulation includesFull 13 slide Google slide on the Great Depression Document that Students fill out as they play through the simulation Link to a fun interactive online simulation. Things you will need for this simulation. Students will need some form of electroni
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9th - 12th
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Beige Book Monetary Policy Activity
A great way for students to put themselves in the place of the Federal Reserve Bank Presidents as they read through the Beige Book and decide what is best for their district. Students will look at economic data and then create a press release based on their information and knowledge of monetary policy.
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9th - 12th
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Circular Flow of the Economy
This is a classroom tested activity that I have used for ten years to allow students to engage in the practical application of the economic, or circular flow. Not only do students get excited because they get to get up and moving around, but they will also be interested in creating their own real-life examples. Enjoy!
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3rd - 8th
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The economics of going to a Bills Game Preview:
This lesson is for an economics class that has finished learning about cost-benefit analysis as well as total cost. As I live in Buffalo, NY it was designed to have students compare the cost vs benefits of taking a family of four to a game in Buffalo vs. taking a family of four to a game in Atlanta, GA vs staying home to watch the game. If you would like to change the sport or city it is very easy to replace the links as I have done the same with events for the NHL, MLB, and NBA and this assignm
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11th - 12th
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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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