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Economics laboratories
Tragedy of the Commons Lab, Colored Goldfish, AP Environmental Science
So much fun for students! This is a lab they remember all year, and you know it's a win when they put photos of your class on their snapchat story :) Simple setup, and includes detailed, step-by-step teacher instructions for directing lab during class. Materials needed: colored goldfish, straws, butcher paper, markers. This lab is readily available for free, but my version greatly simplifies it for teachers, and enhances it for students by using different colors of goldfish to represent differen
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9th - 12th
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Unit 1-Food Safety; Food and Nutrition (HFN/HFA) Ready with Mini-Inquiry (ON/BC)
This is originally created for Food and Nutrition 11/12 in BC; after teaching in an Ontario curriculum for some time now, I have adjusted this to fit the expectations of the course: HFN1O/2O in the Ontario curriculum. This has been designed with accommodations available for ELL students and students with special needs in some cases. For the most part, there is an excess of acitvities for the teachers to choose from. The work periods as scattered in weeks 3 and 4 where students will be preparing
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7th - 12th
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MS-ESS3-3
Project Based Learning Curriculum | 2nd Grade PBL Activities
In this Project Based Learning Science and Social Studies Bundle you will have everything you need to teach PBL this year! Creating these units are time consuming for any teacher and this bundle will save you hours and hours of work, planning and your time. We take the boring and make PBL fun and easy to teach. It includes a Plant Unit, Economics and Financial Literacy Unit, Habitats and Ecosystem Unit, an Iceberg Unit and more. These are all the top selling 2nd grade PBL units that we have.Some
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2nd
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Dollar Bill Analysis Exploratory Lab Activity (Counterfeit Unit)
This introductory lab kicks off our Counterfeit Unit by putting enlarged replicas of real dollar bills in students hands and letting them analyze and explore all the facets that go into money that the average person overlooks. Students will explore the $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 enlarged replica bills and document various things about each.For lab, I print enlarged bills double sided and laminate for longevity. Students analyze bills in lab groups to collaborate and share materials. There i
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4th - 12th
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Which Would You Buy? An Economic Lesson
Teaching economics isn't always easy for elementary students. This lesson might make it easier for them to understand WHY we buy the things we buy. We all have opinions that influence our choices. Using a name brand chocolate chip cookie and a store brand, students learn to compare the reasons why they buy the ones they do. In this lesson they also test their willpower by analyzing the cookie for a while before they even get to taste it. There is a chart for them to mark the differences in a coo
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2nd - 5th
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Assembly Line and Cottage Industry Activity
This tasty lesson plan helps students experience the advantages and disadvantages of the assembly line and compare the assembly line to the cottage industry method of producing goods. Using edible ingredients students create cookies with smiley faces using both methods, compare their results, and use their experience to understand the advantages and disadvantages of the assembly line. It is an excellent addition to any science or history class!Use this handy tool to asses your student's partic
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4th - 8th
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Wage Per Hour & Lifestyle Choices - High School Economics
In a fun investigative activity, students calculate their yearly expenses for their chosen life. Students will decide where to live, what type of car to drive, fuel, utility cost, cable/internet, entertainment, etc.. By the end they will discover how much per hour a person will need to earn in order to support that life. They will make connections between the lifestyle a person can live, level of education needed to live that lifestyle.
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Budget Simulation
Give students a chance to experience what it means to have income and expenses. This budget simulation will help students find out the costs of living. This particular one does NOT simulate post-secondary educational costs. It will be assumed that the student has no costs in this regard (simulation WITH these costs will be offered soon!). This budget activity is meant to be used by high school, junior high, and middle school. It can be adapted to fit budget lessons for economics, business, BMA,
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Chemical Reactions: Hollow Penny
Lab activity where students create a chemical reaction to produce a hollow penny! The results are pretty impressive and the students are interested and surprised to see a hollow penny. Great activity to provide a real-life demonstration of the 4 main reaction types discussed in Chemistry and also nice cross-curricular activity that involves some social studies and economics.
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7th - 11th
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LIFE: An Economics Simulation
Teaching business skills, life skills, and the basic economic principle of earning more than you spend is both easy and fun with LIFE: An Economics Simulation. This comprehensive economics activity has it all. Students must...1.) get a career and start a budget. 2.) find an affordable house and then buy it.3.) furnish the home and determine what the utilities bill will be on a monthly basis.4.) buy food, clothing, other life necessities.5.) start a family.6.) fill out tax forms that look very si
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Persuasion in Advertising: An Economics & Psychology Simulation
Studying what and how people are persuaded in psychology and economics is interesting, but actually trying to this in a simulation / experiment is downright fun! This lab gives your psych / econ students some key background information into the world of advertising, and reiterates some important principles of psychology, and then it turns your students loose to explore these concepts further. The goal? Students are to write, act, edit, and then ultimately present, their own TV commercial. This a
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Economics Simulation: Lemonade Stand
The all-time classic! Teach your students basic economics principles with this wildly popular simulation. Students will want to try to increase profits over and over until they succeed. It's that fun! You will love the energy that this simulation brings to your economics lessons, and students will learn valuable skills concerning supply, demand, and price. Highly recommended for elementary, middle, high school, and college students.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Economics: Get A Job!
This is a simple but fun research project that your Economics students can do on the Web or over the phone. They are two research 3 entry level jobs, collect the data, and compare it.This is the perfect activity to do in class or outside of class. After the assignment has been completed, you should have rich material for several class discussions as you debrief and dissect all of the interesting and intricate details of what your students had learned.
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9th - 12th
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Physics: Amusement Park Riders per Hour
This lab requires model amusement park rides (K'Nex work well.) The lab is designed to help students determine the number of customers per hour that can be achieved with each ride.
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7th - 11th
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Economics Flipped Lesson One "Economic Decision Making"
High School Economics - Economic PrinciplesEconomic Decision Making Unit includes high-interest power point files, video links, a vocabulary term list, vocabulary quiz, a student workbook and teachers guide to flipped classrooms delivered in a format that's easy to present. On their own, students will answer questions, using video links, graphs, political cartoons and other visuals to help them understand all of the important features of Economic Decision Making from the basics of scarcity to th
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10th - 12th
Model Savings Plan - High School Economics
Stock, bonds, savings - oh my! In this activity students learn about the social and personal benefits of saving. As well as how a savings account earns compound interest. Students work through a savings plan by selecting a saving purpose, goal, and target time frame.
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9th - 12th
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SEPTEMBER / LABOR DAY ACTIVITY / ENRICHMENT / CROSS CURRICULAR
Teach students the reason Labor Day is a national holiday. Use this activity to conduct a classroom simulation of an assembly line. Students work on a line completing a color graphic under strict parameters to mimic the tough working conditions of the Industrial Revolution. You get 2 pages with:Background information about the history of Labor DayA description of the materials, procedure, and parameters that student "workers" must follow10 higher-order thinking questions for discussion/response
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9th - 12th
BUILD A BETTER BUBBLE REAL-WORLD STEM CHALLENGE
This is a real-world STEM Challenge that combines the scientific method, problem solving, economics, cooperative learning, teamwork, and self-evaluation. Students are given the scenario of working on a science & engineering team for the Wham-O Toy Company and are challenged to build the longest-lasting bubble using the given materials without going over their budget of $100. Lab Job descriptions are included--the Materials Manager must show their Lab Safety License as their ID when they co
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4th - 12th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Training Students for Job Interviews with Common Question and Answer Strategy
Job interview training worksheet with embedded video to help students train for the important life skill, verbal presentation, and research to help them land a job. Practice interviewing them in person, on Zoom, or by them submitting videos to the most commonly asked interview questions! I pair this with my future self Economics project. An unforgettable lesson that can greatly help them in their lives.
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9th - 12th
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Branded: To be or not to be ~ A Name Brand vs. Generic Foods Lab
The "Branded: To be or not to be" foods lab allows students to analyze whether a food sample is a name brand or generic food. Everything you need to run the lab, including instructions, is available through this download. The only thing left to do is shop for your food samples!
My students LOVE this lab and it really hits home the fact that product quality is not often compromised between name brand and generic foods. Prior to the lab, students receive instruction on the difference between nam
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6th - 12th
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Taste test lab- normal and substitute goods
This is a lab activity that is great for courses in economics (or home economics!). This lab is a food based "taste test" where you incorporate science with social studies- by having a blind taste test of three different foods (the given categories are cereal, chips and soda- but you can change this). Students will : have blind taste test, compare physical and flavor attributes, predict name brand (normal good) v. store brand (substitute good). Ties in writing and budgeting at the end of the as
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Design your own house: Adding,subtracting items in real life scenarios
Having trouble motivating your students with adding and subtracting double (or triple digit) addends. Use this great file. I created this excel spreadsheet to allow student to click and drag house layouts, furniture, and even plants to an area of land. Once they choose an item, they type it in the spread sheet and tally it up. There is a self check feature on each page to see if they added or subtracted correctly.
If you have extra time or you want to turn it into a game, print out the car
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1st - 4th
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Economics: Advertising Techniques
This activity has two parts. Part one is background information. Where did modern concepts of advertising come from? What is the psychology used in trying to sell someone on an idea and/or product? These questions are addressed in this first part of the activity. The second part involves application. What does persuasion in advertising look like? How can you classify the different forms of persuasion? These questions are addressed in the second half of this activity. This activity is highly sui
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Science lab sign "I compare" poster wall
With this catchy colorful lab wall poster, science teachers add another visual, educational tool for teaching their kids a key step in the scientific method: Comparing!
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1st - 12th
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Economics activities to try
Here are a few examples of the different types of activities and lessons you can find on TPT to help teach students about economics:
Simulation Activities
You can introduce students to the world of investing, budgeting, and other economics-related activities through simulations. For example, have students research companies they want to "invest" in to show them how the stock market works. If you want to extend the lesson, you can have them periodically check in on their portfolios throughout the year to see how their investments are performing. Or, you could use a simulation to teach them about causes that led up to certain major historical events, like the stock market crash of 1929.
Budgeting Exercises
Help students understand the importance of managing their own financial resources by challenging them to create a budget. Give them a few hypothetical scenarios involving income, expenses, and financial goals. For example, you could ask them to plan a fictional character's monthly expenses, or have them create a budget to save for buying a house.
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
Give students a real-world decision to make (e.g., building a new road, investing in a new technology, or buying property) and have them perform a cost-benefit analysis. To deepen the learning, you can ask them to justify their decisions with evidence.
Frequently asked questions for teaching economics
What is economics?
The study of economics is a social science that focuses on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. When teaching economics, the goal is to help students understand how individuals, businesses, governments, and societies make choices about resource allocation. Economics explores various topics related to this, including supply and demand, cost and benefits, and scarcity, to name just a few.
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