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8th grade economics games for Microsoft Word
Trade and Barter: A Trading Simulation
Welcome to the world of economic exchange! Throughout history, people have traded, bartered, negotiated, and haggled in order to receive the greatest amount of goods for the lowest cost. From the direct trade of goods to the use of currency, people have found ways to satisfy their wants and needs. This trade simulation provides students with an opportunity to barter with imaginary resources and goods in order to obtain points. The premise for the simulation is the combination of resources. In th
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6th - 12th
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Supply and Demand T-Shirt Activity
As a group, decide on a design for your t-shirt. Make a design that you think would be popular amongst your classmates.Each group will then decide on a sale price for your t-shirt. Each group will be given $50 to go shopping.Each group will then get a chance to go “shopping” (not for their own shirt) and purchase the shirt(s) of their choice (if you can afford it). A “seller” for your team will keep track of how many shirts were sold. We will then have a second round of shopping where you may
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6th - 12th
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Monopoly and Big Business Role-Playing Game
In this game, students will take the role of either an oil company or a consumer, with companies producing oil and consumers buying it for the lowest possible price on the market. Companies will vary in size, with the largest company having several advantages. Students will compete against each other in the market, trying to find ways to decrease production costs and will even having the ability to initiate buyouts. The game works great for U.S. History or economics.The document will include
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8th - 11th
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Early American Trading Systems: A Native American Trading Game
Engage students in a U.S. history and economics lesson through regional trading practices amongst Native American tribes of North America. The simulation is meant to accompany Ch. 1, Sec. 1 of the McDougal Littell text, "The Americas: Reconstruction to the 21st Century." However, it is adaptable for any Native American groups, and therefore adaptable to all grade levels. It is fun and the students really love it!
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6th - 11th
Economics Coffee Shop Game
Students will Play the Cool Math Coffee Shop Game (free website) to portray the 3 types of economic systems- Command Economy, Market Economy, and Mixed Economy. The command economy limits students from changing the recipe and price. The Market has absolute freedom, and the Mixed has a price ceiling and max amount of Milk that can be used, but otherwise the decision is theirs. Included in this are directions and 3 pages of spreadsheets/worksheets for students to fill in. This game takes about 2 p
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7th - 12th
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Profit and Loss Activity / Game (Business Studies)
This game is so easy to set up, low tech (paper based), engaging and perfect for relief days or to reinforce previous content.
No more boring rote learning of formulas, this hands-on task teaches students the components of profit/loss and introduces basic accounting and marketing concepts.
Students randomly select colour-coded cards corresponding with fixed and variable costs, quantity sold and price.
Students share their results to determine who is biggest winner / loser in business!
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7th - 10th
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Robber Baron Monopoly Activity Printables
For lessons on monopolies and American Robber Barons, you can use these to hand out to groups of 6 as they play monopoly. Print these on different colored paper, so each member has a different role. Then at the end, have students reflect on how the game went, depending on their role. You don't have to play to completion to know how it went. (Usually my students only get 20-30m to play.
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7th - 12th
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TAXES Bingo – Bundle
30 different bingo cards with TAX terms.Bundle includes:· TAXES Bingo Playing Cards - Word· TAXES Bingo Playing Cards – PDF· TAXES Bingo - cards you “pull out of the hat” – Word· TAXES Bingo - cards you “pull out of the hat” – PDF· Free resource – chips to cover bingo card
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7th - 12th
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Stock Market Game
Looking for a self-running, minimal teacher set-up, ready-to-roll digital Stock Market Game with assignments to engage your students? Look no further. I've put in the legwork over a decade of teaching economics at the high school level to create a ready-to-use Stock Market Game Pack based off the Market Watch website's Virtual Stock Market Game. This game is based off of real-time prices of stocks, and the students have shown great levels of interest in it throughout an entire semester. I do
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Economic Systems and Economic Development Jigsaw Puzzle! Challenging and Fun!
Do something different in class today! This is a Jigsaw Puzzle that uses economic vocabulary and content to connect the pieces. It teaches content AND problem solving (what a unique concept!) It can be used to teach content or review content. It covers: Capitalism, Command/Communism, Socialism, Traditional Economy, Commercial Economy, Subsistence, Cottage Industry, Developed, Developing, Undeveloped, Agricultural/Primary, Industry/Secondary and Service/Tertiary/Quaternary. Check out the preview
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8th - 12th
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Checks and Balances
A teacher generated board game to help teach students about spending and saving money. This game was made to realistically mirror a child’s/ young adult’s spending. Students will keep a check book registry as they play. Student with the most amount of money at the end will win! I have played this game with my students and they LOVE it! They don’t even realize they are doing math because they are so engaged!
All game templates are included! All you need is a dice and playing pieces. You c
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Capitalism vs Communism Rock-Paper-Scissors Handout
Have your students ever wondered about the differences between capitalism and communism? I have created a simple activity using "rock-paper-scissors" to illustrate the differences between these two economic systems.Two parts included in the activity (one for capitalism and one for communism)A series of questions for each part of the activityA discussion question included at the end of the activity that can be used as a RACES writing strategy question**Instructions are included on the handout its
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6th - 8th
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Playing the monopoly game to teach simple managing of Business Finance
A fun way to teach managing the money for any sized global business using the board game monopoly. Students record all the events involved in the game and then reconcile the cash they are holding with the written record. Simple to play and a great way to ensure students understand the importance of money handling and accurately recording all of the events.
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8th - 12th
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American Colonies COLONIAL BARTERING GAME
To imitate the bartering (trading) sessions in the American Colonies, I invented this hands-on interdisciplinary activity where the students bring in their own items to trade (barter) with each other with no money exchanges. It is a sociological blast! I also invented several alternative games to vary the activity. It can be done in one class session, preferably about an hour. Besides learning about bartering and the varied techniques of trading, they learn that good and bad deals can be made a
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4th - 12th
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Pit - Card Game: The updated commodities of 2020
FAST PACE GAME! LOTS OF FUN AND LAUGHTER! Check me out on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B79_GtWJkSt/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_linkSome decks consist of 74 cards with eight (normally nine) cards each of eight different commodities. The specific commodities have varied over the various editions of the game, but those used in most modern editions are Nike, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and TikTok. The classic version has seven commodities: flax, hay, oats, rye, corn, ba
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Weimar Republic Hyperinflation simulation game
This is a thoroughly hands on and experiential activity, game, or simulation in which students play the role of merchants in a German economy during the Weimar Republic and see their prices rise as you the teacher start "printing" a lot of money. Details of the game as well as real statistics on the value of the mark are provided here. It is a great way to teach students the effects of the Treaty of Versailles and how it is that Hitler rose to power.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commo
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6th - 12th
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TAXES Bingo - cards you “pull out of the hat” – Word
To use with TAXES Bingo. I like to laminate these on card stock. Because it is in Word, you can change any of them you want to. You can laminate them and cut them to use as the cards you “pull out of the hat.”
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: TAXES Bingo – Bundle
Product Market
Product Markets are a great way to get students involved in economics and commerce. This includes the information sheet with specific guidelines on how students should approach the project, outlines the expectations for a complete product, and explains how the market will work at the end of the week. Plus, I have included a student product planning sheet and an easy interview rubric to be used at the market by the assessing teacher-so that students are held accountable down to the very last mo
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4th - 9th
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The People's Republic Game
This game is intended to show how difficult life under communism was. The students are workers and try to earn candy (which represents housing, food, clothing, etc)
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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A- K, QR Political Cartoon Activity for Economics review
QR Code Scavenger hunt activity. This can be used as a overall Economics review or you could separate them to fit in each unit. They are political cartoons covering the following topics: Monopolies, Inflation, The FED, Resources, Fiscal Policy, Minimum Wage, Supply / Demand, Credit Cards, Monetary Policy and unemployment. Students will need a phone to do this activity in order to read the QR Codes.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Working/Benefits Bingo - cards you “pull out of the hat” – Word
To use with Working/Benefits Bingo. I like to laminate these on card stock. Because it is in Word, you can change any of them you want to. You can laminate them and cut them to use as the cards you “pull out of the hat.”
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Working/Benefits Bingo – Bundle
Econ Game Theory - 3 Games Included!
Game theory is a field of economics not often explored in introductory courses. However, it is fantastic starting point to introduce the basic concepts of trade-offs, scarcity, efficiency, and opportunity cost. Also, game theory demonstrates rational and irrational decision-making. Since economics has shifted towards the study to decision-making, the concept of rationality is the basis of almost all topics. Three short games are provided in this document that can lead to engaging discussions in
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Bartering Activity
These role sheets allow students to interact and exchange in a market system. The roles are set-up to convince students that a money system is more efficient than bartering.
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5th - 9th
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Budget project: the game of life (editable resource with links)
Directions for students:For this project, you will learn what it is like to live in the real world! You will create a monthly budget to show the income that you would earn from a realistic job and the monthly expenses that you will need (rent, utilities, transportation, food…) It may be difficult to understand working in order to pay for things, but hopefully this will give you a good idea of what you need to plan for in the future.
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6th - 12th
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Budgeting Exercises
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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
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