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Grades 3-5, 6-8
Believe it or Not?
In this economic lesson, students will explain fact and opinion in advertisements.
Key Concepts: Advertising
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Grades 3-5
You Can BANK on This! (Part 1)
Banking should not be confusing. It should be INTERESTing! Most students in the elementary grades would love to know more...
Key Concepts: Money, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
Grades 3-5
You Can BANK on This! (Part 4)
This lesson deals with credit and wraps up this unit on finance.
Key Concepts: Credit, Interest, Profit
Grades 3-5
The Grasshopper and the Ant
Understanding the concept of opportunity cost is critical for good decision making. The ability to identify the opportunity cost—the highest...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Consumers, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…
Grades 3-5
What Face do you Use?
The students will recognize that in order to facilitate the exchange of goods and services, most nations create currency for...
Key Concepts: Money, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
Grades 3-5
To Be or Not To Be?
This lesson guides students through web sites that examine careers that are typically of interest to 3rd- through 5th-grade students....
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Division of Labor/Specialization, Goods and Services
Grades 3-5, 6-8
How E-Commerce Influences Consumer Choice
In this lesson students learn decision making skills that will help them become better consumers. As consumers they have a...
Key Concepts: Choice, Markets and Prices
Grades K-2, 3-5
Toys for Me: A Lesson on Choice
Updated! In this elementary economics lesson, students will categorize and prioritize their wants to learn about scarcity and choice. Scarcity...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Opportunity Cost, Scarcity…
Grades 3-5
Money Comes and Goes
Students read two online stories that introduce them to the elements of a budget and show that a successful budget...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budgeting
Grades K-2, 3-5
What is Competition?
Students will understand what businesses are, that a marketplace exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services, and that...
Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Consumers, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…
Grades 3-5
Hawaiian Economics: Barter for Fish & Poi
In this economics lesson, students will examine the relationship between specialization and trade.
Key Concepts: Benefits of Trade, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
Grades 3-5, 6-8
I Can Be an Entrepreneur
In this personal finance lesson, students explore entrepreneurship by earning money and advertising their business. Learners are given advice on...
Key Concepts: Entrepreneurs, Profit
Grades K-2, 3-5
Clipping Coupons
In this lesson, students will calculate savings for different products when using coupons. They will also decide what factors will...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentive, Markets and Prices…
Grades 3-5
Hawaiian Economics: From the Mountains to the Sea
In this economics lesson, students will compare the benefits and costs when allocating resources.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Productive Resources
Grades 3-5
Peanuts, Pecans, and Peas, Please
Updated! George Washington Carver, a great scientist, changed the economy of the South with his agricultural knowledge. This lesson will...
Key Concepts: Economic Systems, Entrepreneurs
Grades K-2, 3-5
The ABCs of Saving
In this personal finance lesson, students will learn about short and long term goals in order to be a successful...
Key Concepts: Opportunity Cost, Saving
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Taxation without Representation?
This lesson will take students through the series of tax acts that were enacted by the British government and disputed...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Economic Systems…
Grades 3-5
Money Doesn't Grow on Trees
In this personal finance lesson, students will examine earned and unearned income.
Key Concepts: Income
Grades 3-5
You Decide!
Think about a difficult decision you have had to make. After you decided did it work out? Why or why...
Key Concepts: Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Scarcity
Grades K-2, 3-5
A Pet For Beans from 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
After listening to a computer-read story, "Jack and the Beanstalk," the students will find out that beans were used as...
Key Concepts: Money, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
