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Economics Common Core CCRA.W.3 resources
Project Based Learning Math and Research - Run a Pizza Restaurant PBL Unit
Everyone loves pizza! In this real world Project Based Learning Math unit, students can open and run their own pizza restaurant. This student-centered PBL unit provides differentiation by giving student choice. This OPEN A PIZZA RESTAURANT real-life challenge requires students to use inquiry, critical thinking, and their creative minds during the high-interest cross-curricular [math, social studies, ELA] activities. Students integrate digital learning into the project as they investigate culture
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3rd - 5th
Also included in:Â Project Based Learning - Economics Bundle - Entrepreneurship and Economics
The Founder Movie Guide | Questions | Worksheet | Google Form (PG13 - 2016)
The Founder Movie Guide | Questions | Worksheet (PG13 - 2016) challenges to analyze and learn life & business lessons from Ray Kroc's story of persistence. Explore the relationship between supply and demand, analyze the business decisions both Ray and the McDonald brothers made, and prioritize the key attributes Ray credits to his success: talent, genius, education and persistenceCheck the preview file for high resolution sample questions to see if this movie guide is suitable for your stud
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â School Site License (1 SSL) 12 Movie Guide Bundle | Triumph & Inspiration
The True Cost Documentary Movie Guide | Questions | Google Formats (PG13 - 2015)
The True Cost Documentary Movie Guide | Questions | Google Formats (PG13 - 2015) challenges your students to put themselves in the shoes of garment workers in India and Bangladesh and connect their experiences to the fast fashion industry. Explore the idea of advertisement and consumptionism. Analyze the argument that sweatshops might help poorer countries. Finally, explore what we can do as individuals to help reform the clothing industry.Check the preview file for high resolution sample questi
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7th - 12th
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High School Life Skills Project Bundle
What are some high school life skills that your students should be building? How about budgeting, meal planning, and personal finance for an incredible start?I have put together several high school life skills resources that when combined help students build these essential life skills and 21st-century skills in a way that is fun, engaging, meaningful, and super real-world.What high school life skills are we talking about here? Let's take a look:Plan and Execute a Fundraiser: spreadsheet use, bu
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10th - 12th
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The Story of Stuff Video Guide | Worksheet | Questions (NR - 2009)
The Story of Stuff Video Guide | Worksheet | Questions (NR - 2009) challenges students to connect with and digest the plethora of information in this short, 20 minute, video. Examine each stage of the Materials Economy process including extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal. Ask student to share their experience with the concepts of planned obsolescence & perceived obsolescence and imagine ways in which costs are externalized for products they are familiar with. Expl
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7th - 12th
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Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
This bundle can be used for an economics class that is one semester long, as it has students analyze aspects of economic thinking, personal finance, businesses, and the stock market. Here is a rough pacing guide for the bundle:Weeks 1-2: Introducing students to thinking like an economist and understanding basic frameworks for the economy. (Resources 1-8)Weeks 3-4: Introducing students to the first unit about their personal finance in the future. Students brainstorm and research their ideal caree
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Social Studies Weekly | Narrative Writing | Economic Principles | Third Grade
Lessons created using the Science of Reading and The Writing RevolutionHere is an easy 4 day lesson plan to guide your students to successfully write a narrative paragraph! Students will spend 4 days diving into content rich material using resources from Social Studies Weekly! By day 4, students will have obtained enough background knowledge to create a narrative writing graphic organizer to plan their narrative piece.*I have obtained permission from Studies Weekly to post these lessons to Teach
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3rd
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Money & Budget Activities For Early Elementary | Savings Tracker, Budget Maker
Are you working on money and financial literacy with your early elementary students? Are you struggling with all the different skills and concepts that money brings? This money recognition, savings and budgeting unit has you covered! With activities from basic money recognition all the way up to budgeting and tracking savings, there's something for each of your students from prek-2nd grade in this pack! Complete with a budget planner, a funds tracker, a visual savings chart, printable play money
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in:Â Money Math and ELA: To Accompany Alexander, Who Used To Be Rich Last Sunday
Global Wealth Disparity │ Middle-School Reading Comprehension with Assignments
This middle school reading comprehension is a comprehensive educational tool designed to meet key language curriculum expectations for middle school students. It provides a unique approach to understanding global economic disparities, making it an ideal resource for teachers seeking to enhance their students' knowledge.This middle-school curriculum resource provides an engaging exploration of global economic disparities. Students gain a deeper understanding of international economics through a w
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7th - 9th
Persuasion in Advertising: An Economics & Psychology Simulation
Studying what and how people are persuaded in psychology and economics is interesting, but actually trying to this in a simulation / experiment is downright fun! This lab gives your psych / econ students some key background information into the world of advertising, and reiterates some important principles of psychology, and then it turns your students loose to explore these concepts further. The goal? Students are to write, act, edit, and then ultimately present, their own TV commercial. This a
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Landlords, tenants, homeowners, government (COVID-19 and Distance Learning)
This independent work project has students learn about the crisis in housing costs during the COVID-19 pandemic from many perspectives (landlords, tenants, homeowners with mortgages) and the reasons why many people have lost income as well. Students are asked analysis questions and then tasked with both brainstorming ways government could solve these problems AND evaluating why their solutions might work and might not work. It is formatted for google classroom.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
Cost-benefit Analysis and Incentives (Distance Learning and COVID-19)
This handout has students understand and use a cost-benefit analysis chart for decisions they will make with their lives after high school. It then has students analyze incentives with examples they get from someone they know, their observations of people during the COVID-19 pandemic, and an example of teen marijuana use in Colorado. It is formatted for google classroom.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
America and Meritocracy (Distance Learning and COVID-19)
This handout has students understand and analyze the idea of a meritocracy, including evidence that supports the idea that America is a meritocracy, evidence against it, asking someone they know who is 20 years older than them about this, and then analyzing economic data for different demographics as evidence for or against the idea that America is a meritocracy. Students then analyze how different types of economies create conditions that enhance or work against a meritocracy. And finally, stud
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
Communist Revolution Speech
This role play puts students in the position of a communist worker in Germany in 1848. They want to inspire their fellow workers to rebel, and they must use a word bank of vocabulary and limited quotes from the Communist Manifesto in their speech (excerpts from Communist Manifesto included). It is formatted for google classroom.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â World History Curriculum Materials and Resources
Making a Budget (Distance Learning)
This handout asks students to create a budget for when they start working. The first part requires them to put down the salary for the job they researched in this activity:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ideal-Career-Research-Distance-Learning-6314338And then, based on their monthly income, they build a budget for themselves as an adult. They must interview 3 adults who pay their own bills to get estimates of what things cost as an adult, and then average the costs together, add them
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Post-High School Career Research Unit
Interactive Read Aloud--The OxCart Man by Donald Hall
This lesson plan and powerpoint will allow you to read Donald Hall's OxCart Man (AR Level 4.5) with greater depth and understanding. This 4-day lesson takes the students into the world of the OxCart Man as Donald Hall demonstrates the trading economy used in 19-century rural New England and includes comprehension and vocabulary discussion, along with combine, expand, unscramble and super sentence balanced literacy activities to increase grammar and writing skills for the older elementary studen
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3rd - 4th
Career Interest Survey (Distance Learning)
This handout asks students to brainstorm the answers to 16 questions that are broadly about the type of work, work environment, salary, skills, hobbies, and talents that they could translate into a job. It can lead students to then choose a career based on how well that career matches up with their answers to these questions. It is formatted for google classroom.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Post-High School Career Research Unit
Guided Writing: Truck Driver / Transportation - Non-Fiction Research Templates
These community worker and career writing templates is part of the When I Grow Up themed set. Each set has the same pages (cover, contents page, choices of elementary and intermediate lined writing pages, career plan timeline, etc.) so that each student can be inspired by their own dream job. Choose from dotted, wide, or narrow lined pages for your writers. This Truck Driver or Transportation Worker set uses a truck outline and can be used for any transportation career or to write about producti
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K - 4th
Also included in:Â Guided Writing: Community Workers - Non-Fiction Research Templates
Interactive Read Aloud Slideshow--The OxCart Man
Use this slideshow to help teach the vocabulary, writing extension ( combine, expand, unscramble and super sentence), and writer's response presented when reading The Oxcart Man by Donald Hall. Pairs well withThe Interactive Read Aloud Lesson Plan--The OxCart Man by Donald Hall (AR Level 4.5)
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3rd - 4th
Also included in:Â Interactive Read Aloud--The OxCart Man by Donald Hall
Economics Introduction (Distance Learning and COVID-19)
This packet takes students through many basic ideas in economics: Goods and services, consumers and their needs (including Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs), the myth of the meritocracy and race/gender differences in personal wealth and the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, the 4 major types of economies, cost-benefit analysis, opportunity cost, incentives, and how the government and businesses can use incentives to get people to change their behavior to prevent spreading COVID-19. Very comprehensive. I
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
Economics Case Study: The Downfall of Imperial China
Highly suitable to both Economics and World History classes, this case study carefully examines the reasons behind the collapse of Imperial China. Using charts / graphs to bolster its arguments, this case study contains many shockingly similar parallels to modern Western societies today. Richly illustrated and full of pertinent information, this case study will inform, entertain, and perhaps even anger some students. As such, it will provide the basis for lively class discussions. The case stud
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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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