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5th grade economics resources under $5
Economics Unit for 3rd & 4th Grade - Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, & Budgets
Do you want your students to master all the economics terms and standards in 3rd and 4th grade? Well this hands-on PBL unit to teach economics covers many different concepts through a real life project. After learning vocabulary your students will go through a project that will teach them all about economics. This is not an explicit teaching product, but a project based learning product.This Unit Covers1. Scarcity2. Opportunity Costs3. Producers and Consumers4. Budgets5. Market PlacesWhy will th
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3rd - 5th
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Supply and Demand Informational Text Study
Supply and Demand Nonfiction Passages This non-fiction text packet contains everything your 5th-8th grade students need to understand supply and demand. Your students will learn this social studies concept while close reading non-fiction text. This resource includes 7 pages of non-fiction text, one comprehension test, two writing prompts and a glossary.Page 1: Cover PagePage 2: Table of ContentsPage 3: What are Consumers?Page 4: All About Goods Page 5: All About ServicesPage 6: What are Produ
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5th - 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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Financial Literacy Reading Comprehension Worksheet Bundle Center Activities
This Financial Literacy Bundle is great for many classes! It will give students all overall surface knowledge of many types of financial literacy. Many of my students have heard some of these terms, but have no idea what they actually are! INCLUDES:*Types of Expenses- 15 Comprehension Questions*What is Credit?- 10 Matching Questions*Applying for Credit- 12 Comprehension Questions*Checking Accounts- 7 Comprehension Questions*How to Write a Check- Practice Check Writing *Saving Money- 10 Matchi
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5th - 8th
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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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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
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!
This file includes:
-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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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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Food Truck Festival - Economics End-of-Unit Project
Looking for a fun end-of-unit project for your Economics unit? Look no further! My third graders loved designing their own food truck and menu, creating a business plan, and then shopping at each other's trucks during our Food Truck Festival. This project includes three components and lots of options!Business Plan: Students identify goods they will sell and resources they will useFood Truck: Students will design a food truck and menu.Food Truck Festival: Students will shop from their classmates'
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Third Grade Economics Bundle
Economic Theories Chart and Questions Covers Communism, Socialism, Capitalism
This chart explains the similarities and differences in Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism. Students answer ten questions to identify the type of economic theory described. They also answer five short answer questions. I've included a color and black and white version, as well as a key.INCLUDES:Chart15 Questions totalGreat overview!ZIP FILE INCLUDES:-Economic Theories (Color Version, BW Version, Key) -Key-Economic Theories Student Version in Color -Economic Theories Student Version in BW**
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5th - 8th
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This is Your Life - Budgeting Activity
A fun budgeting activity where students get to ‘choose their own life' based on their weekly income and expenses.Teach your students the importance of budgeting and saving while planning for everyday expenses and occasional luxuries. This activity is designed to teach budgeting and money management with students in middle primary. It can be used as a maths lesson or during humanities when covering economics. It is also a handy tool to begin discussions about poverty and inequalities in modern so
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3rd - 6th
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Decimals - A Real World Math Project about Paying the Bills!
This real world math project is the perfect way for students to practice adding and subtracting decimals in your classroom! It is a cross-curricular project as it incorporates both economics and math. This project includes both a printable and a digital version for use with Google Classroom.Description: Each student is in charge of their family's personal budget for two weeks. They must fill out a bank register by adding and subtracting decimals. They also write checks to pay bills in order to s
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5th - 6th
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Also included in: 5th Grade Math Bundle for the ENTIRE YEAR!
Spending and Saving Money assessment and task cards
~Spending and Saving Money~ -Aligned with the new TEKS!- This packet includes a worksheet where students have to come up with a budget for Lisa's Lemonade stand.-Free draw worksheet for an item that the student wants and how to save up money to purchase that item.-Spending and saving money story with critical thinking questions that follow. Help Kyle at the farmer's market!-Spending and Saving money scenario questions where students have to decide if the person needs to save or spend their money
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Financial Literacy| Personal Finance Bundle
Economic Systems Scenario Worksheet w/ Teacher Guide
Great way to check for comprehension when teaching economic systems. This worksheet can be given as a homework assignment, comprehension check, differentiated assignment, or taught as a whole class.Students first have to define the four economic systems (traditional, market, command, and mixed economy). I like to have students do this on their own and then as a class check to make sure that everyone has the correct definition on their paper before they work on the scenarios. Teachers can also ch
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: BUNDLE: Middle School Economics
Current Events Activity and Worksheet | PEGS Factors in the News | Google
Challenge students to follow current events and discover PEGS (Political, Economic, Geographic, Social) factors in the news. They watch or read the news, identify examples of stories that represent each PEGS factor, summarize the main ideas, then justify their decisions. Includes links to websites and a PEGS reference chart for interactive notebooks. This activity can be assigned regularly throughout the year, so students stay informed & connect the real world to your classroom. Social Studi
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5th - 12th
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Needs and Wants Economics Unit for Special Education #catch24
Learning how to manage finances is an important life skill, and learning the difference between needs and wants is a crucial first step! With my Needs and Wants 10 Day Economics Unit, students learn to differentiate between needs and wants with a reading comprehension passage, anchor charts, and repeated practice differentiating between the two. You’ll Love: Tackling a critical life skill in an easy-to-implement unit Repetitive practice for students Age-appropriate visuals to further generaliza
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K - 5th
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Also included in: Life Skills Bundle | Life Skills Curriculum for Special Education
Start Your Own Business Mini-Project (Digital + Printable)
Guide your class through their very own startup! Each year, my class comes up with their own "business" to raise money for a charity. This mini-project template guides them through the process! This goes very well with a unit on goods and services or buyers and sellers. Assign to groups, individually, or even complete whole-class. Compliments Benchmark Advance Unit 9 theme.What’s Included:A PowerPoint version for Microsoft Teams usersA Google Slides version for Google users (the link is provided
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: All PBL, Research, and Writing Units! (Benchmark Advance)
Time to Trade- a game to teach systems of exchange, bartering, money & trading.
This is a trading game that can be played with most primary aged children. It has been designed to teach children about the history of trade, giving children a greater understanding of why money is now the system of exchange used in most societies today. This game also helps children in understanding the concepts of trade, bartering, exchange, needs, goods and services.
This product includes 14 pages of resources which contain the following:
- 24 x game cards
- 12 x sets of 10 (120 in total) g
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1st - 7th
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Country Travel Brochure Project
This is a fun project activity where students create a travel brochure for a chosen (or teacher-assigned) country. This project works well because the students know exactly what information that they need and where to put it on the brochure. It makes researching so much easier for everyone! There are directions, a brainstorm sheet, and a rough draft graphic organizer. I like the students to complete the final draft on large white construction paper, but the rough draft graphic organizer could be
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4th - 12th
Plan a Bake Sale - Project Based Learning Unit Math and Economics Unit
Everyone loves cupcakes and sweets from a bakery. In this PROJECT BASED LEARNING - PLAN A BAKE SALE unit, your students learn about economics and entrepreneurship as they open their very own bakery (option: have a bake sale). This student-centered project incorporates collaboration and differentiation by providing student choice. This real-world challenge requires students to use inquiry, critical thinking, and their creative minds during the high-interest cross-curricular [math, ELA] activities
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: Project Based Learning Math Bundle With Writing and Research - Economics
US Economy: Free Enterprise System Mini Booklet
This mini-unit is complete with everything you need to cover the unit in only a few hours! It’s also a great resource to supplement your current lesson plan.
Pick and choose the activities to make your perfect booklet! Include up to 9 pages!
This product contains:
• A reading passage that covers 18 vocabulary words!
• Four questions about the reading passage
• A cut-and-paste activity to match famous scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs
• A cut-and-paste foldable to explain goods, service
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3rd - 5th
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ECONOMICS Word Search Puzzle Worksheet Activity - 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th Grade
Economics for kids. Use this vocabulary worksheet to introduce a unit or as a follow up at the end of a lesson. This is a big puzzle with 47 vocabulary words for puzzlers to hunt down. Puzzles make fun no prep activities for early finishers, bell ringers, morning work, handouts, homework, lesson plan supplements, sponge activities, introductions to new topics, classroom themes, and sub files.The economics words covered in this puzzle are: Bank, Barter, Benefit, Bond, Budget, Business, Capital,
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4th - 7th
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Types of Economic Systems: Paper Airplane Challenge
Teach students the different types of economic systems through the Paper Airplane Challenge; a fun and interactive way for students to learn about the four types of economies. Students begin by either being a producer or consumer of paper airplanes. Through this interactive challenge, students are introduced to the basic principles of each economy type (traditional, command and market). After small group and class discussions, students will view a Google Slides presentation providing more spe
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5th - 11th
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Also included in: Economics Lesson Bundle: Paper Airplane Challenge
Supply and Demand Task Cards
Supply and Demand Task Cards
Do your students understand supply and demand? Find out with my Supply and Demand Task Cards for grades 5-8. Students will answer either a multiple choice or true and false question on each of the 32 task cards.
Students will answer questions that focus on supply and demand vocabulary and will also solve real-world problems where they will apply what they have learned about supply and demand.
Great for stations, SCOOT or partner work!
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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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