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Economics activities for homeschool
Who Am I? - Community Helpers Powerpoint Game #1
Community helpers games are great for teaching students about different community jobs. In this "Who am I" game, students must guess the community worker. There are 10 questions and you just click on each question to go to it. Each question has 3 clues and student have to guess which community helper it describes. Clues include tools they may use, what they do, and where they may work. Great for a whole class review or rainy day activity. Great for individual practice on the iPad! Extra licens
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Kindergarten Games Bundle
Financial Literacy Goods & Services Needs & Wants Earning Money Spending Saving
This financial literacy bundle for 1st to 3rd grade includes three social studies economics units: Goods and ServicesNeeds and WantsEarning, Spending, and Saving MoneyThese resources contain a variety of reading, writing, vocabulary, and sorting activities that teach young learners about money and how to manage it responsibly.Goods & Services includes:Goods and Services Vocabulary PostersConsumers and Producers Vocabulary PostersSupply and Demand Vocabulary PostersPicture Sort ActivityWritin
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1st - 3rd
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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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Community Helpers Workers Activities 1st Grade Kindergarten Social Studies
This set of activities will help students understand workers in their community and the jobs they do. Includes workers, jobs and occupations, vehicles, and city services.Includes:Helpers and Jobs Sorting CardsMatch the picture of the worker with the correct name and job description. These work well as a whole group pocket-chart activity. Includes 26 cards.Workers, Vehicles, and City Buildings CardsThese make a fun matching activity for young learners or vocabulary development for your ESL/ELL st
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PreK - 1st
Also included in: Kindergarten Math & Reading YEAR LONG BUNDLE 1300+ Pages
Economics: Goods & Services, Wants & Needs, Making Choices, Saving & Spending
This 4 week unit utilizes literature, whole group activities, independent practice, interactive notebooks, and PowerPoint slide shows to teach the economic concepts of wants and needs, goods and services, saving and spending, and making choices.
This unit includes:
17 colorful instructional posters
17 pages of worksheets
6 whole group or center work activities
5 pages of interactive notebook/bulletin board activities
4 book activities
PowerPoint slide shows of each poster broken down so that yo
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1st - 2nd
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Consumer Math & Financial Literacy - Credit Card Project (with Google Slides™)
You can purchase this product with other consumer math and personal finance activities and projects in a BUNDLE:Consumer Math and Financial Literacy Activities & Projects BUNDLEUpdated to also include a Google Classroom™ version in addition to the original print-friendly version! **************************************************************************************DOWNLOADED OVER 1,000 TIMES**************************************************************************************This is a credit
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5th - 12th
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Goods & Services Sort Worksheets Financial Literacy Economics 1st 2nd Grade
This financial literacy resource has everything you need to teach your students about goods and services and other concepts of money! WHAT'S INCLUDED:There are both printable and digital components giving students multiple ways to access the material.Vocabulary Posters - Includes word with definition - goods, service, consumer, producer, supply, demand, and barterGoods & Services Picture Sort - 15 picture cards that students sort according to whether they show a good or a service. Includes h
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1st - 2nd
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Social Studies Interactive Notebook
Interactive Notebooks are all the rage in Language Arts and Math classrooms. (And rightfully so, they're awesome!). It's time we bring them to Social Studies! This kit will help you jazz up some of your geography/history/government/economics lessons and make them engaging and FUN! The 100+ activities and printables in this kit are perfect for the "Reflection" side of the INB. They are super easy to incorporate into any lesson plan. They can easily be used in most grade levels and topics of study
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5th - 9th
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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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NEEDS & WANTS Sort Worksheets Economics 1st 2nd Grade Social Studies Activities
This is a set of financial literacy activities to support your primary economics unit on needs and wants. Includes both printable and digital items.Includes:Vocabulary Posters with definitions of needs and wantsPicture Sort - Students sort picture cards according to whether the item is a need or a wantWriting Activity - Student write about what a need and want is and then describe something they want and something they need.Cut-and-Glue Word Sort - Students classify each item as a need or a want
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1st - 2nd
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Wants and Needs Wants & Needs Kindergarten and First Grade Social Studies
Wants and Needs Wants & Needs Kindergarten and First Grade Social Studies⭐Do you WANT it? Do you NEED it? Covering the topic of WANTS AND NEEDS with your Kinders or First Graders has never been easier. This engaging and ready-to-use WANTS AND NEEDS file is going to be a HUGE time saver for you. Snag this 30-page pack to get charts, pocket chart activities, writing prompts, and printables all about wants & needs.⭐This unit is a week's worth of wants and needs learning activities that cove
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Social Studies Bundle for Kindergarten and First Grade Printables
Crash Course Economics Worksheets Complete Series Set Full Bundle Collection
This ZIP file contains Microsoft Word document worksheets (along with PDF versions) for each of the thirty-five episodes of Crash Course Economics hosted by Adrienne Hill and Jacob Clifford.Worksheets contain a combination of fill-in-the-blank and short answer questions. Each worksheet is accompanied with an answer key and relevant images.By purchasing this file, you agree not to make it publicly available (on external websites, etc.) or to share with any other teachers. It is intended for class
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Economic Systems -- Traditional, Market, & Command
Whoo hoo! Finally, a fun (and easy) way to teach some difficult economic concepts! This 53-page file on Economic Systems (Traditional, Market, and Command) is full of engaging, hands-on activities that will make your students understand those tough concepts. Enjoy!
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~Vocabulary Cards for each of the vocabulary terms that can be posted on your Word Wall (I've also included a blank template for you to write your own words, if needed) -- slides 2-5
~PowerPoint-style notes on
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6th - 7th
Also included in: Economics BUNDLE
Goods and Services Book and Sorting Activity Economics for Kids
Learning about goods and services? This is the activity for you!What You'll Get12 page booklet that helps the students define goods and services. The booklet contains fill-in-the-blanks and an area to glue the black and white images that correspond to each page (or you can have your students illustrate their own pages). Sorting activity (in color and black and white)In addition to the book format, the information is presented in a single page as well, which can be used in addition to or instead
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1st - 3rd
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Personal Financial Literacy: A Unit for Needs and Wants & Spending and Saving
This Personal Financial Literacy unit is filled with hands-on, interactive activities. Teaching posters, graphic organizers, interactive notebook templates, a personal money portfolio, and so much more! It was created with the K-1 learner in mind and aligns directly with TEKS. Students are sure to enjoy their learning as you tackle this topic!Included in this unit:-Standards Taught -Teaching Sequence -Word Wall Cards -Teaching Posters -Ways to Earn Income Web -Job Skills Web -Income or Gift Poc
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K - 1st
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Printable US Coin Sorting Mats for Coin Identification Practice
Printable US Coin Sorting Mats for practice identifying and differentiating U.S. pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters! Use these coin sorting mats for morning work, math centers, assessments, and small group activities!Ideas for Use1. For a small group activity, place a bowl of coins in the middle of each table. Using a small plastic cup, students take a scoop of coins out of the bowl and place them next to their mat to sort. Once they finish sorting the coins they can dump them back into the b
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Identifying And Counting US Coins Activities 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
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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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
Mercantilism Simulation | The Thirteen Colonies 13 Colonies
This lesson provides a fun educational simulation for students to experience trade during the age of mercantilism. The classroom interactive experience is set up so that they will see the impact of the rules created by England to limit trade, and increase profit. This has really helped my students to visualize a difficult economic concept. Students get to move around the room, trade goods, maximize their profits, and potentially smuggle! This lesson plan also includes two exit tickets to check f
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Colonial America | 13 Colonies | 17 Days of Lesson Plans and Assessment
Simply Social Studies First Grade - Unit 4 - Basic Economics
****SIMPLY SOCIAL STUDIES - FIRST GRADE ****Unit 4 - Basic Economics What is Simply Social Studies all about?Simply Social Studies is a Social Studies curriculum that covers grade appropriate concepts and objectives for First Grade. (Kindergarten is also available and can be found HERE).What's included in this unit of Simply Social Studies?This unit of Simply Social Studies includes detailed lesson plans with ELA and Math extensions & suggestions, book suggestions, craftivities, anchor char
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1st
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
Teaching Supply and Demand - Candy and Coke Activity!
This is a great lesson to introduce Supply and Demand!I use this with my middle school students year after year. It is an engaging lesson using two things they love - candy and soda. By the end of this lesson they really have an understanding of the Laws of Supply and Demand and how they work. They experience it for themselves in this lesson. If you purchase this lesson, will you let me know how it goes for you. You are welcome to contact me at bmarkwald@usmk12.org.Have fun!
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Engaging Lessons For Teaching Economics!
Entrepreneurship Full Semester Course
Entrepreneurship Full Semester Course CHAPTER TITLES:Chapter 1 Introduction to EntrepreneurshipChapter 2 What it Takes to be an EntrepreneurChapter 3 Economics 101Chapter 4 Opportunity or IdeaChapter 5 Business OpportunitiesChapter 6 Business PlanningChapter 7 Market ResearchChapter 8 Industry ResearchChapter 9 Types of Business Ownership and LawChapter 10 Choosing a LocationChapter 11 Marketing PlanChapter 12 Pricing StrategiesChapter 13 Promotional StrategiesChapter 14 Product DevelopmentChapt
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9th - 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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