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Economics Common Core 4.NBT.B.4 resources
Santas Workshop Christmas Math Project and Activities | Project Based Learning
Looking for the BEST Christmas math activities for your class? The Santa's workshop Christmas math project is the answer! Students will love this 10 day group Christmas math project based learning activity.What IS Santa's Workshop Christmas Math Project Based Learning Activity?Students will learn about economics and math at the same time! This ten day Christmas math project unit starts with a letter from Santa asking students to help him make a workshop for the North Pole. Students will build Sa
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2nd - 4th
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Create a Monthly Budget
This can be used for teaching finances in Math and/or Social Studies. My students always enjoy this activity! I usually allow them to talk to one another while they are working. It is great to hear their reasoning and to watch them working through it. You can change the level of difficulty by having them draw unexpected expenses from a bowl/bucket and discuss how that will effect their budget. Throughout the process the students learn new vocabulary words, how to make a budget, how decision
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3rd - 6th
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5th Grade Personal Budget Project
5th Grade Personal Budget ProjectIf you love Project Based Learning, this project is for you! Students will answer questions that require them to think about financial decision making. Using the choices they make, the students will then create a budget. Students will explore what it means to over budget or under budget. This project is the perfect way to integrate math and social studies! Two versions of this project are included to make differentiation easy! You will receive a decimal version a
Personal Budgeting Simulation Project - Integrated Social Studies/Economy & Math
This Personal Budgeting Simulation Project is a great way to introduce, learn, or review economy vocabulary for personal budgeting, as well as practice math skills! This multi-day project is fully digital and ready to assign to your students through Google Classroom or other LMS that supports Google Slides. Students will love finding a job and deciding how to budget their money spending! Every step is clearly explained on the slides, including math calculations, so that students can work indepen
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4th - 6th
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Disney Meal Planning (Computation and Economics)
During your Magic Kingdom day, you need to help plan two meals for your family: lunch and dinner. Students will plan the meals based on a set budget based upon the number of people in their family. They will choose menu items for each family member, total the cost of each meal, and ensure that the costs stay within the family's set budget.Complete menus with pricing are included for all of the Disney restaurant options.Teacher notes are included with tips and differentiation ideas, as well as st
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2nd - 5th
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Dream Bedroom Makeover- Math, Area, & Budgeting Project
***2024 Update: Items have increased in price since I made this. You might want to consider giving a higher budget***Great low-prep resource for a budgeting project. Students receive $1,000 to redo their bedroom. They get to go to IKEA and purchase furniture, but MUST stay in the budget. Students will have to use addition and subtraction skills, reasoning, and must know area and perimeter. This is a great project for Math or Social Studies during an economics unit. Features:34 slides in 6 partsI
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4th - 7th
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Math Project Based Learning: Donut Shop
This is a perfect activity for the students to demonstrate their knowledge through a project! Students will also look at what goes into creating budget, costs, profit, earnings, etc. What's included:Student directions and checklistswhole number and decimal versionsdifferentiated budget page to accommodate different skill levelsrubrics for decimal and whole number versionsadd on pages to address comparing decimals or whole numbers and rounding decimalsThis activity would make a great mini room tr
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3rd - 5th
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The Investment Machine Game - Money, Math, Economics Primary Fun Activity
Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to teach and practice money skills? This game has everything you need to teach economics concepts such as counting money, investing, earning and spending. Students in grades 3 through 6 will delight as they race each other to be the first to reach $5. The game cards provide twists and turns to keep the students about what will happen next. Students will have to add and subtract whole dollars and quarters to keep track of their income, earnings and expen
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3rd - 6th
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Economics | Financial Literacy Simulation | Project-Based Learning
Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to teaching financial literacy concepts to your students? This high-engagement, low-prep Economics Financial Literacy Project-Based Learning includes a brief introduction into basic financial literacy terms and engages students in a Financial Literacy simulation where they must make choices and learn how real-life situations affect a budget. Students will play through a year in Futuretopia to see how their choices fare!Daily activities and student obje
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3rd - 6th
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Class Business Project
The Class Business Project integrates ELA, Math, and Social Studies-Economics so that students can create and run their own business. Through this experience, students will learn how to complete a job application, write a resume, obtain references, and interview for a position in the class business. Once hired in their role, they will complete the necessary tasks to write a business loan request, name their business, design a logo, develop a product, advertise their product, determine how to pri
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3rd - 5th
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Plan a Birthday Party Project Based Learning
Children love thinking about their birthdays. This highly motivating project challenges students to persevere and make financial decisions. For classroom use, students complete a hands-on shopping spree. For distance learning, students do an interactive click and drag shopping spree. This can easily be differentiated to meet a variety of abilities.Included in this purchase:Teacher tips (classroom printable)Teacher tips (distance learning digital activity)Reader's theater skit to introduce the pr
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2nd - 4th
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Wants and Needs Budget Project
A fun way to help students learn about budgeting their wants and needs. This should be used after wants and needs have been introduced to the class. Students will be given a prompt where they go away to an island for a month. On their month-long trip, they will have a set amount of money (you can always change it). The budget I used for my class was $1,450. Students will get to pick from three different types of shelters, two different clothing stores, multiple types of groceries (you can always
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2nd - 4th
Million Dollar Project
In this project, everything is included for students to complete an economics and math-related project in which they are required to "spend" $1,000,000. Students will examine current prices of homes, cars, vacations, and everyday objects in order to grasp an understanding of the value of money.
Project guidelines, expense recording sheets, work space, checks, and a reflection are all included.
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4th - 6th
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Class Business: Project Brainstorming
The Class Business Project integrates ELA, Math, and Social Studies-Economics so that students can create and run their own business. Through this experience, students will learn how to complete a job application, write a resume, obtain references, and interview for a position in the class business. Once hired in their role, they will complete the necessary tasks to write a business loan request, name their business, design a logo, develop a product, advertise their product, determine how to pri
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Class Business Project
Class Business: Interview Prep
The Class Business Project integrates ELA, Math, and Social Studies-Economics so that students can create and run their own business. Through this experience, students will learn how to complete a job application, write a resume, obtain references, and interview for a position in the class business. Once hired in their role, they will complete the necessary tasks to write a business loan request, name their business, design a logo, develop a product, advertise their product, determine how to pri
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Class Business Project
Class Business: Employment Opportunities
The Class Business Project integrates ELA, Math, and Social Studies-Economics so that students can create and run their own business. Through this experience, students will learn how to complete a job application, write a resume, obtain references, and interview for a position in the class business. Once hired in their role, they will complete the necessary tasks to write a business loan request, name their business, design a logo, develop a product, advertise their product, determine how to pri
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Class Business Project
MATH - MONEY - BEE BANK (TASK CARDS OR BULLETIN BOARD ACTIVITY)
This listing includes 30 bee banks filled with coins. Students calculate the amount in each bee bank. You can either use the 30 bee banks as task cards with answer sheet (pages 3-11) or use as a math bulletin board activity where each student gets a full sheet bee bank (pages 13-42), calculates the total, colors the bee bank, then hang on a bulletin board (I did this for our 2nd-grade open house that was bee themed). There is an answer key (page 12). ENJOY!
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2nd - 4th
Class Business: Timeline
The Class Business Project integrates ELA, Math, and Social Studies-Economics so that students can create and run their own business. Through this experience, students will learn how to complete a job application, write a resume, obtain references, and interview for a position in the class business. Once hired in their role, they will complete the necessary tasks to write a business loan request, name their business, design a logo, develop a product, advertise their product, determine how to pri
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Class Business Project
Check Writing Activity-Number Forms
Do you need a more engaging way to practice number forms? Look no further! This activity requires students to practice writing large numbers in standard and word form while also practicing the real life skill of check writing.
Students will choose from different colleges, cars, accessories, vacations, and homes. Print out the activity for each student/small group or project it on the Smart Board!
To stretch this activity, you could do one a day over the course of a week as a place value starte
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3rd - 5th
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The Lotto Motto
A five-day completely student-led Google Classroom assignment on place value and money. Students win a lottery, but have to spend their earnings a certain way because they are underage. Motes are in place to guide students with reading the directions and instructions. This adventure hits both math and social studies standards! The kids LOVE it! Designed for Digital Backpack in Louisville, KY (JCPS), but those slides can be taken out! :)
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3rd - 6th
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Budgets Financial Literacy Activity
Send students through a monthly budget simulation. They will learn how to manage a monthly budget to be able to save up for a luxury item.Students start with a monthly budget and have to choose between cheap, average and expensive options in five different categories. After making their choices, they need to balance and calculate their budget to find a savings balance. Included is a set of activity directions, budget cards, table with all choices, detailed pages for each categories' choices, tab
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4th - 7th
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Travel Extravaganza
This 25 page travel project was developed for students to map out dream vacation spots on a budget while utilizing research, math, geography and writing skills.
This product comes with:
-teacher direction page
-student direction page
-black and white cover options
-black and white post card options
-map
-work page
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4th - 12th
Economic Decision Making
This is a great activity to go along with an economics unit! Students will be able to make decisions about spending and be in control of their own monthly budget. It's a real-world experience catered directly to students! They get to decide what kind of house the live in, food they purchase, transportation they use, and more while trying to stay within their budget. The activity is a great tie-in to "wants" versus "needs" because they have so many options to choose from. It is also a great way t
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3rd - 8th
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2022 NCAA MARCH MADNESS MATH CHALLENGES - For 3rd - 6th Graders
NCAA MARCH MATHNESS IS HERE! This packet is packed with 7 pages for students to complete during the 2022 NCAA Basketball Tournament. (Incorporates addition, subtraction, multiplication, line plots, angle measurement, rounding, time conversion, elapsed time, and more)Activities include: Team Scouting - students use Wikipedia to research info (attendance, Financial Endowment, Location, mascot) for 4 schools (chosen by student) playing in the 2022 tournament.Rounding Attendance - students round d
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3rd - 6th
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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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