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Economics resources for Microsoft Excel and for homeschool
Distance Learning: The Economics of the Stock Market Activity - MS Excel/Google
This stock market game for students uses the NASDAQ American Stock Exchange web site and has never failed me in getting even the most reluctant students to participate! If you are looking for a great activity to keep your students active and engaged this one hasn't failed me yet. Each student is given "$50,000" and has to invest in 10 different corporations. This activity is done in "real-time" and truly helps them make connections to the economy they are a part of. You can decide how long y
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Middle School Economics Financial Literacy Activities Bundle
WISE EXAM and PERSONAL FINANCE GLOSSARY -- PDF, Word, and Excel Formats!!
This is a printable and customizable (provided in PDF, Excel, and Word format) WISE Exam / economics and personal finance glossary with accurate but student-friendly definitions. It has all essential W!SE / WISE exam content...but also vocabulary that is often in personal finance classes but not tested by the W!SE exam.This resource is available as a "print and go" glossary in PDF format. But, the MS Word file is also provided as is an easy to sort / organize Excel file with suggested themati
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: WISE / W!SE Exam REVIEW SHEETS and PERSONAL FINANCE GLOSSARY Bundle
Teach Budgets and Basic Finance using Spreadsheets
This activity walks students through the basics of how to use spreadsheets and teaches them a few budgeting and finance skills:calculate wages with and without overtimecompare income to expensesconsider how interest rates impact investment amount at different timesuse an if statements to determine if expenses exceed incomeIncludes 5 practice questions with solutions.try it out here: spreadsheet sampleThis activity has a focus on budgeting. If you’re interested in teaching science related spread
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Financial Literacy | Budget Planning | Money Management | Digital/Print Activity
Help your students learn to balance a budget using relatable scenarios and easy-to-use handouts or spreadsheets. SWBAT analyze a budget scenario, apply concepts on budgeting and create a budget plan for three fictional persons. Budgets begin with scenarios explaining income, expenses, and future plans that require money to be set aside each month for high school and college-age people. There is an easy-to-complete chart or spreadsheet (upload both to your Google Classroom if you wish). Stude
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Economics - Check Writing & Stock Market Investing Bundle
For a great deal on 5 Economics products check out this bundle!The Economics of Checks, Budgets, Stocks, College, and Savings - 5 Activities!This bundle combines two economic activities that middle school and high school students should become familiar with; writing checks and investing for their futures. These two activities will open their eyes to how they can manage their money and their financial futures. The Economics of Checks – Packet of Check Writing for Introductory EconomicsThis chec
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7th - 12th
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The Best Budget Worksheet
What makes this budget worksheet the best? It will help your students learn and understand the difference between wants and needs. It will show them the difference between gross and net income. This budget worksheet will itemize things they probably have not considered before. They will be able to follow along and stay engaged with the lesson. All of my previous clients (students) stated this is what they want to learn and something they will always remember.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Life Plan Project | PBL Assignment | Word
This PBL assignment has students research and plan for their adult lives. It is intended to be used in high school courses. Students will research and respond to 50+ questions. They will organize their research into a PowerPoint presentation. This project is pursuant with Project-Based Learning strategies. It can complement personal finance, business, or life skills courses. Furthermore, this project can be adjusted to be completed along side traditional lesson planning or be a concluding, final
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Basic Business Worksheet Packet
This is a 10 page packet that guides students through the basics of starting a business. This packet is for students selling a good. (Packet for selling a service will be available soon too.) The students will be asked to think about their business model and business name. Other Pages Included:- Budgeting / Predicting Expenses- Tracking Actual Expense (Expense Record)- How to Determine a Good Price for Items Sold - Direct Cost / Reasonable Sale Prices and Increased Prices- Income Record - Financ
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3rd - 9th
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Financial Literacy | Investing | Capital Gain Loss | Stock Portfolio Activity
Prepare students for using spreadsheets to analyze stocks. With a focus on capital gains or capital losses over a span of 5 years students will see the power in investing. A teacher-led 8-slide presentation and demo shows students exactly what to do in this assignment. Students are given a list of companies from which they select ten (10). The students will complete an Excel spreadsheet or a Google Sheets Doc (which is set up with all formulas) so that they may analyze a portfolio performanc
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9th - 12th
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Mock Paystubs with automatic calculations for taxes
These mock paystubs are great for Economics or Life Skills classes. Have students search for their career salary and the sheet with automatically calculate the weekly pay and taxes based on estimated tax rates for a single exemption. The Sheet already has four career salary tabs (Nurse, Dental Hygienist, Vet Tech & CDL driver). If at any time you need help I am available. Students or teachers can edit the hours worked and the paystub will adjust.
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Realistic Game of Life (NO MATH, JUST CLICKING)
Most game of life or financial literacy lessons fall short of realism in terms of how much things may cost. Buying a car in New York is not the same as buying a car in Delaware with no sales tax. This google sheet helps students see what thing may cost with a focus on being as realistic as possible, with simply clicks no typing needed. This is meant to be a tool teachers can use in a variety of ways, and to avoid having student lazily research what a teacher can make, when again a teacher in NY
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
DBQ Activity for Labor and Wages
This activity is used to examine four articles which discuss the labor market. Each of the articles has been rated for difficulty, and are accompanied by separate question sheets. Students are grouped according to your opinion of their reading comprehension levels. Once they complete their assignments in their "expert" groups, they are then mixed together so that at least one member from each "expert" group is present. They then receive a second response sheet with questions designed to requ
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11th - 12th, Adult Education
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Lesson 4 - "Economic Systems" PPT, Lesson Plan, Guided Notes, Assignment/ HW
For a few dollarsSave some time and relieve some stress.Plus, your students and administrators will love it.Are you a substitute?Do you need an already made lesson for today?Do you want to impress your principal?Do you need a lesson that is technology friendly (Easy to use for Zoom, Meets, Skype, etc.) ?Are you simply tired?My lessons are the lessons for you !Key Terms Covered in Lesson 4- Economic Systems-Traditional Economy-Free Market Economy-Command Economy-Mixed Economy
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9th - 12th
Lesson 3 - "Circular Flow" PPT, Lesson Plan, Guided Notes, Assignment/ Homework
For a few dollarsSave some time and relieve some stress.Plus, your students and administrators will love it.Are you a substitute?Do you need an already made lesson for today?Do you want to impress your principal?Do you need a lesson that is technology friendly (Easy to use for Zoom, Meets, Skype, etc.) ?Are you simply tired?My lessons are the lessons for you !Key Terms Covered in Lesson 3 - Circular Flow Diagram- Product Markets- Factor Markets- Businesses/ Firms- Individuals / Households
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9th - 12th
Federal Government Budget Simulation
Make changes to the tax code and government spending to reduce the deficit while keeping your approval rating above 50%. No paper needed. Student's only need access to google sheets!-The newly elected President of the United States has come to you, their trusted economic advisor, to fulfill the promise of fiscal responsibility. The President has promised the voters to not reduce Social Security or Medicare. The President's budget is projected to balance the nation's budget and promises to not al
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Budget Project
This project allows students to go through all the various things when creating a budget. Students will work through 2 tabs making 2 separate budgets. The first budget they complete is the typical American budget which can be based on either going to college or straight into the workforce. The other is based on what their dream job one day might be. The budget does all the math for them and has explicit directions throughout. Students will research different fixed costs they might have (i.e. mor
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11th - 12th
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The Real World- Family Budget Spreadsheet
To be used with the Real World Family Budget Activity- provides an easy way for students to input all their data. Auto calculates net income by multiplying gross by 70% to account for taxes and insurance. Auto calculates savings at 10% and figures total income, total expenses and surplus or deficit.
I upload this to googly drive and then share with each group as a "can view" file, they copy it and add their data and share it back. This prevents a group from corrupting the original.
The spre
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8th - 12th
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Teaching Students how to Create a Monthly Budget
This great spreadsheet teaches students how to create a monthly budget and understand the importance of budgeting. The spreadsheet contains embedded formulas that will auto calculate expenses for a fun friendly approach to learning budgeting.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Personal Monthly Budget Spreadsheet (Great for Econ & Finance Teachers)
-This user-friendly but aesthetically-pleasing spreadsheet will be the perfect planner to keep your organized and on budget! -Simple: All you have to do is enter in your monthly budgeted income and expenses, then what you actually spend and earn throughout that month.-User-Friendly: You simply plug in your income and spending, and the spreadsheet will populate your savings, and total expenditures for the month.-Customizable: Tailor the color scheme and titles of your budget to your liking (i.e.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Practice checking account
I created these to teach my Life Skills students how to manage a checkbook. When I was searching online the options I found were either too immature or not customizable.
This is an excel file where you can easily add your student's names and create your own bank name. Included in the file is instructions for how to print and use these as designed.
I hope your students enjoy learning with these realistic checks!
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6th - 9th
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Market Structures Comparison Chart
Includes a chart comparing monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, and perfect competition.
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7th - 12th
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9th-12th grade Florida Social Studies Standards with Access Points Checklist
Social Studies standards and Access Point standards for 9th-12th grade on an Excel spreadsheet with 5 columns for data input and separate tabs for the strands. These standards are organized in their separate strands to coordinate lessons. Please see my free file for an example.This file contains the Geography, Economics, Civics and Government, World History, Humanities, Sociology, Psychology, and Financial Literacy standards in separate tabs.
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9th - 12th
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What America Buys Computer Applications Project
Students will create a one page report on how Americans spend their money using Word and Excel. The solution files (in Excel and Word) are included as well as the one page handout for students.What America Buys Computer Applications Exercise by Kim Nichols is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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9th - 12th
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Powerful, Simple, Intuitive Monthly Budgeting Spreadsheet on Excel (.xlsx)
9 Important Features / Underlying Philosophies:ONLY NEED TO EDIT BLUE: I've colour-coded the cells so users only need to edit the numbers in the blue cells - all the other numbers are automatically calculated by my formulas. COLOUR-BLIND ACCESSIBLE: the blue cells are also the only cells with heavy black bordersA SPENDING AMOUNT CALCULATOR: Ever looked at your checking account balance and struggled to figure out how much money you should keep for bills and how much you can spend? Ever worried yo
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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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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