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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...

Key Concepts: Choice, Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…

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Grades 3-5

Appily Ever After Video

Ana has a big problem. She accidentally spent almost $100 on in-app purchases while playing on her favorite princess app....

Key Concepts: Consumers, Credit, Goods and Services

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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: Choice, Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…

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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: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Saving

60 mins

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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: Budgeting, Goods and Services

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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: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Entrepreneurship, Saving

45 - 60 mins

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Grades 3-5

Opportunity Cost - Playful Economics | Lesson Demo

Using play dough is a fun way to introduce new economic concepts and to keep your students engaged. In this...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis

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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: Goods and Services, Specialization, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence

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Grades K-2, 3-5

Scarcity - Playful Economics | Lesson and Demo

Shanan Riegle, an award-winning teacher from Yorktown Elementary School in Indiana, demonstrates how to use play dough to teach the...

Key Concepts: Scarcity

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Grades 3-5

The Classroom Mini-Economy | Lesson Demo

Shanan Riegle, an award-winning teacher from Yorktown Elementary School in Indiana, shares tips for creating a mini-economy in the elementary...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Economic Institutions, Entrepreneurs…

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Grades K-2, 3-5

Teach Money Skills and Graphing with "Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday"

In the story, Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, Alexander receives a dollar from his grandparents that he...

Key Concepts: Consumers, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Spend

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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: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Opportunity Cost, Productive Resources

60 mins

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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 Trade and Balance of Payments, Business, Credit…

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Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concepts of Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve. Monetary policy involves regulating the money supply, banks...

Key Concepts: Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, Economic Institutions…

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Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Technology Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Technology. The set of instructions or blueprints that inform producers about the various ways...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Productivity, Resources

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Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Trade, Exchange and Interdependence Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Trade, Exchange and Interdependence. People do not make everything that they and their family...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Benefits of Trade, Credit…

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