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Economics lessons under $5
Goods and Services Worksheets and Sorts with Producers and Consumers Activities
The goods and services plus producers and consumers materials in this resource were created to help students understand basic economics. These concepts can be difficult for young learners but these activities will help them grasp the ideas in a fun manner. Goods and Services Activities Included:- Anchor Charts for Goods, Services, Consumers, and Producers- Vocabulary cut and paste pages- Goods and Services cut and paste sort- Magazine cut and paste sort- Drawing Goods and Services - Listing Go
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Wants and Needs, Goods and Services Economics Bundle of Worksheets
CREDIT, CREDIT SCORES AND RATINGS , Economics, Life Skills, Personal Finance
CreditThe Importance of Your Credit ScoreAn easy to implement and an effective lesson. This complete learning package will teach students how lenders determine credit risk, how a person’s credit score/rating is determined, explain the role of credit bureaus, the importance and benefits of good credit, and how to read a credit report. Essential and practical topics for our students.Included:1. Detailed Lesson Plan2. PowerPoint Presentation3. Credit; The Importance of Your Credit Score: Reading w
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Understanding Your Pay Stub Lesson - Paychecks, Deductions, & Income Taxes
This easy prep lesson uses realistic pay stubs to teach students how to understand their paychecks. Topics include gross vs. net pay, deductions, income taxes, benefits, and more. Includes Google Slides, guided notes, and a practice worksheet with answer keys!Students will learn how to read and interpret the information provided on their pay stubs using realistic sample pay stubs. You will lead students through the guided notes using the included Google Slides. Students will learn about each
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Wages & Paychecks Financial Literacy Lessons and Activities 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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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
Scarcity Economics Unit
These scarcity and choice activities were designed as a cross curricular economics unit. They will help your students learn what scarcity is, how it is caused, and how they can help make better choices to limit its effects. Social Studies, reading, and writing lessons are all included in this unit.This product is part of my Economics Bundle. Click on the link below to check out the bundle and save money!Economics Bundled Unit!Please view the preview prior to purchasing to make sure these acti
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1st - 3rd
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2nd & 3rd Grade Economics - Jobs, Income & Earning Money Social Studies Lessons
Looking for a fun way to teach your 2nd and 3rd-grade students all about jobs and income? This economics resource is filled with easy-to-follow lessons to help teach your students all about earning money, jobs, and income. Make planning your 2nd and 3rd grade social studies activities simple with these done-for-you jobs and income lessons! Included you’ll find, lesson plans, introduction slides, activities, worksheets, vocabulary, materials for early finishers, and homework suggestions. Just pri
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2nd - 3rd
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All About My Family and Me (a mini-unit about families and needs and wants)
This All About My Family and Needs and Wants mini-unit will help build classroom community! You will discuss all about families, needs and wants, and the customs and family traditions celebrated within families in your classroom! Inside this unit you will find:My FamilyNeeds and Wants sortFamily NeedsFamily WantsHow Technology Helps Us Meet Our NeedsWe Need RulesFamily RulesTogether is BetterFamily Traditions and CustomsMy Birthday CelebrationFamily Comparisons: Meeting a New FamilyEach activity
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K - 1st
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Producers and Consumers Cut and Paste Sorting Worksheet - Economics
I created this worksheet for my students to have one more practice with understanding producers and consumers. They read the 12 situations and determine if it is an example of someone being a producer (making lemonade to sell) or a consumer (eating chicken nuggets from the restaurant). They cut,sort and paste the cards into the Producer or Consumer category. This activity can also be used for a graded assignment. I have several other Economics activities for sale in my TPT store! -- goods a
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Economics Bundle - 1st - 3rd Grades - Worksheets and Center Activities
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
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3rd - 6th
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2nd Grade Economics Lessons - Producers & Consumers Activities & Worksheets
Looking for fun 2nd-grade economics lessons? Look no further!! Teaching students about producers and consumers couldn't be easier with this jam-packed economics resource! This 2nd-grade economics resource contains easy-to-follow lesson plans, introduction slides, activities, worksheets, vocabulary, materials for early finishers, and homework suggestions. Just print and go so that you do not have to spend time planning activities for your producers and consumers activities! ⭐ SAVE 25% WHEN YOU BU
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2nd - 3rd
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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)
FDR's New Deal: Can YOU Solve the Great Depression?
This is a highlight every year. Students really get into this. I made this assignment because my students could never really grasp the enormity and complexity of the challenges FDR faced during the Great Depression. It seemed anti-climatic to just tell them about the bunch of New Deal programs, so I created an assignment that not only forces the students to brainstorm ways to alleviate suffering and prevent future crisis, but to acknowledge the criticism they will face no matter what actions the
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8th - 12th
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Career Exploration, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, ENTREPRENEURS, Careers, Employment
Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurs The worksheets for this lesson are in Google and PDF format, making it a great resource for distance learning or in-class instruction.Entrepreneurship is a practical and viable career choice, which is often underappreciated or over looked. This complete learning package exposes students to key aspects entrepreneurship. Objectives: Students will be able to • Define entrepreneur.• Describe the current trend with entrepreneurshi
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Supply and Demand Lesson Powerpoint
This powerpoint presentation is a guide to teach a lesson on Supply and Demand. Not only will your students learn these basic economic principles, but they will have fun doing it! This lesson is designed to engage your students in a way that they will never forget the laws of supply and demand!
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3rd - 5th
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
Needs and Wants Activity Worksheet Sort Needs vs Wants
A social studies activity that's just right to learn about needs and wants. This is sometimes a tricky topic, so providing multiple opportunities to reinforce this concept is the way to go!What You'll GetA kid-friendly 8 page booklet that defines needs and wants. There are blank spaces for students to fill in as well as spaces to glue the black and white images that correspond to each page (or have your students illustrate their own pages if they want). Sorting activity with images and words of
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K - 2nd
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Economics, SAVING MONEY, SAVING, Personal Finance, Economics
Saving Money WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO SAVE.THE SECRETS OF SAVINGSCHOOSING THE BEST PLACE FOR YOUR MONEYThe worksheets for this lesson are in Google Doc format and PDF format, making this an excellent resource for distance learning or in-class instruction.This is a complete learning package with three lessons that cover the essentials about saving and savings account. Each lesson has reading comprehension worksheets, a PowerPoint presentation, a detailed lesson plan, and other worksheets to reinfo
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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GDP (Gross Domestic Product) - Lesson Plan and Activities
This is a complete lesson plan that explores the many facets of Gross Domestic Product. It examines the three different ways to calculate GDP, the difference between nominal GDP and real GDP, and GDP per capita. (This lesson is part of a larger unit on Economic Indicators.)
THIS DOWNLOAD INCLUDES:
1) Warm Up Activity -- students determine which items are included/excluded in GDP.
2) PowerPoint Presentation –contains the lecture and is a guide for all activities.
3) Note Sheet -- students fill
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Economic Indicators Unit Bundle - Includes Five Complete Lessons
Opportunity Cost of College Mini-Project
In this activity, students apply the concept of opportunity cost to the economic decision of going to college. They examine both the opportunity cost of going to a college of their choice, and not going to college. This worksheet takes students through a step by step process to calculate this cost. At the end, students are required to answer a short answer question detailing what choice is best for them by explaining the opportunity cost associated with each decision. My economics students find
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8th - 12th
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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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Intro to the Cold War: The Differences Between Capitalism & Communism
What are the major differences between capitalism and communism? In order to understand the dynamics of the Cold War, students must fully comprehend the two dominant economic structures that divided the world for over half a century. In this lesson, your students will not only be able to demonstrate their knowledge of the fundamental differences of capitalism and communism, but they will be able to apply it to their understanding of economic practices throughout the world.Throughout the lesson,
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9th - 12th
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Economics Reading & Worksheets - Wants vs. Needs - Good & Services
Build your students' vocabulary and reading skills while teaching social studies at the same time! Wants vs Needs, Producers and Consumers, Goods and Services are all vocabulary and concepts taught through two reading materials. One reading material is a newspaper format informational text. The second is a fictional story. It can be used as an interactive read aloud that includes a teacher script, or there is another version that can be printed off for students to read. Pages:1 - IRA overview &a
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Informational Text - Social Studies & Science Topics
Psychology: Classical Conditioning in Advertising Gallery Walk Lesson/Activity
Have you or your students ever fallen victim to classical conditioning embedded in advertising? This engaging lesson and activity will reveal how it happens all the time. This lesson focuses on engaging students by first teaching the concept through relatable examples. After completing a mini-lesson using a short Nike YouTube commercial video lesson that teaches the concept, students practice the concept by finding and sharing examples of their own. The final activity has students complete gall
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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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