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Grades 3-5
Competition Pizza
In this economics lesson, students will identify and evaluate market competition using pizza shops.
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92 of Total Resources
Resources (by date)
92 of Total Resources
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92 of Total Resources
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Learning Economics with Minecraft: Choices, Costs and Benefits
In this economics lesson, students will use cost-benefit analysis to build their own Minecraft shelter.
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Cost and Benefits, Decision Making…
Grades 3-5
Learning Economics with Minecraft: Productive Resources
In this economics lesson, students will build homes in Minecraft to learn about resource choices.
Key Concepts: Factors of Production, Productive Resources, Productive Resources…
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Do I Look Like I'm Made of Money?
In this economics lesson, students will learn the importance of money as a medium of exchange.
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, Employment…
Grades 3-5
Spotlighting Entrepreneurs: The Sweet Success of Milton Hershey
In this economics lesson, students will examine the life of an entrepreneur to learn about entrepreneurship
Key Concepts: Entrepreneurs, Firms and Production, Risk Managment/Insurance
Grades 3-5
Cybersecurity and Personal Finance: Appily Ever After
When working online, children aren't usually aware that parents have to enter a credit card in order to pay for...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services
Grades 3-5
Cybersecurity and Economics: Protecting Your Identity Online
How do you help students practice safe behavior online? In this lesson, students learn the do's and don’ts through the...
Grades 3-5
Cybersecurity and Economics: Goldi and the Three Passwords
In this lesson, students learn about how to create good passwords and the risks of not doing so. Through an...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis, Risk Managment/Insurance
Grades 3-5
Teach About Saving Using "Beatrice's Goat"
This lesson from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' EconLowdown site teaches students what it means to save and...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
Grades K-2, 3-5
Teach Saving and Budgeting with "A Chair for My Mother"
In the story, A Chair for My Mother, a little girl and her family save money in a jar to...
Key Concepts: Buying Goods and Services
Grades K-2, 3-5
Teach Opportunity Cost with "Uncle Jed's Barbershop"
Students listen to the book Uncle Jed's Barbershop, about an African American barber who, despite significant setbacks, saves enough money...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, Personal Finance…
Grades K-2, 3-5
Specialists Light Up Our Lives!
Peppe and his family moved to America to pursue the American dream. His mother has passed away, his father is...
Key Concepts: Globalization, Goods and Services, International Trade
Grades K-2, 3-5
Scarcity - Playful Economics | Lesson and Demo
Watch this demonstration on how to use play dough to teach the concepts of scarcity and decision-making to elementary students...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, Incentives…
Grades K-2, 3-5
Teach Money Skills and Graphing with "Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday"
In this lesson, students count and graph pennies, discuss the choices that Alexander made, and give advice on how he...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Buying Goods and Services, Decision Making…
Grades 3-5
Booker T. Washington:"Fifty Cents and a Dream"
In this economics lesson, students will study Booker T. Washington's life to learn about resources.
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, Factors of Production…
Grades 3-5
Spotlighting Entrepreneurs: A Technology "iCon"
What better way to address Common Core standards in Reading Informational Text than by meeting a gentleman that changed the...
Key Concepts: Balance of Payments, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Entrepreneurs…
Grades 3-5
One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
The picture book One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, written by Kate Smith Milway, takes place...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Budgeting/Money Managment, Entrepreneurs…
Grades K-2, 3-5
Opportunity Cost - Consumers
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, Producers and Consumers…
Grades 3-5
Cowboy Bob Builds a Community
A cowboy rides into a ghost town and decides that it needs to be rebuilt. Students will select the necessary...
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Work, Earnings, and Economics: "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
This updated lesson is based on the novel, Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson. Set mainly in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s,...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Budgeting/Money Managment, Career Choices…
