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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...
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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....
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...
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 Payments, Budgeting/Money Managment
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: Marginal Analysis
Grades K-2
Community Helpers are at Your Service
Students learn that Community Helpers provide a service for their neighborhood.
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Goods and Services
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...
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: Entrepreneurs
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 Payments, Crowding Out, Debt…
Grades 3-5, 6-8
You Decide!
Think about a difficult decision you have had to make. After you decided did it work out? Why or why...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, 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...
Grades 3-5, 6-8
What's My Interest?
Students explore the concept of interest by means of two activities. The first, a simple activity with jellybeans, introduces the...
Grades 3-5
Hey Pop!
One of the best sounds and smells is fresh popcorn! At the movies, at the fair, or at home, everyone...
Key Concepts: Marginal Analysis
Grades 3-5
The Write Stuff
Right now you are probably using a pencil to do your school work. But do you know where the pencil...
Grades 3-5
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Frontier Town
Laura Ingalls Wilder made a sketch of De Smet, South Dakota in the 1880's. This lesson will discuss the markets...
Grades 3-5
How Much is that Doggy?
Students will investigate the concept of total cost of ownership. They will brainstorm the costs of owning a dog or...
Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Marginal Analysis
