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Economics scripts
3 Social Studies Reader's Theaters - Economics
This is a super exciting resource that will help your students:Learn how to earn and manage moneyUnderstand the Social Studies and Reading connectionBuild reading fluency by performing a reader's theaterGain confidence as readers and in front of an audienceLearn to work togetherReflect on their new thinkingINTEGRATE SOCIAL STUDIES TOPICS INTO READING FOR THE WIN!Included in This Resource:3 RT scripts at different ability levels (basic, average, advanced).6-8 Character roles for each script at va
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: Reader's Theater MEGA Bundle for Grades 2-4
Play 1899 Newsies Strike, Summaries of 8 famous strikes, Questions, Labor Unions
Play on 1899 Newsies Strike
Current Child Labor Laws
Summaries of 8 famous strikes by Labor Unions (Haymarket, Coal, Pullman, RR, NFL, etc)
Questions
Labor Unions
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8th - 12th
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Career Day: All About Goods and Services Readers Theatre
This four-part readers theatre is a great way to incoporate your social studies unit of goods and services into your reading instruction. Designed for four readers, this readers theatre allows students to work on their reading fluency in a small group setting.
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1st - 5th
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Kids Did it in Business! Now Create Your Business!
This activity was created to have kids design and explain their own businesses. I paired it with the story Kids Did it in Business. This story is part of 3rd grade Open Court. It would also be great to go with a classroom economy lesson.
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Teacher Notes with Website Links to support the lesson
Two business planning pages
A page to write a presentation for the business
A page to create an advertisement for the business
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2nd - 5th
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AP Human Geography Maquiladora NAFTA Outsourcing Mystery w/Worksheet
DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN CLASS TODAY! How about teaching content AND solve a murder? A crime has been committed. As students sift through the clues they are going to role play within the content you are teaching. This murder mystery covers NAFTA and other industrialization content from AP Human Geography. It is the same as my other maquiladora murder mystery, the worksheets are different. This one is specific to AP Human Geography. YOUR KIDS WILL THANK YOU FOR DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT!
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9th - 12th
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Economics Reader's Theater Georgia Third Grade Social Studies
A five speaker, three page reader's theater for students to perform. It includes the concepts of supply and demand, boycotts, embargos, scarcity, needs and wants, goods and services, and interdependence. It meets the third grade Georgia social studies standards for economics, but could easily be applied to other grades that study on economics.
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3rd
Invention: Key to the Industrial Revolution - Meet the Big 12
The Industrial Revolution - you want to keep it simple because your students only need basic information. Here’s the unit for you - “Invention: Key to the Industrial Revolution - Meet the Big 12.” After a brief introduction of what the Industrial Revolution was, how it came into being, and how it affected society, my slide show illustrates the 12 key inventions with simple “how-they-worked” explanations, along with more than 50 pictures of the inventions and their inventors. The slide show ru
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4th - 8th
Old Mother Hubbard - A Lesson in Scarcity
Readers' Theater script and follow-up activities for use in the elementary classroom. Students learn social studies content, focusing on economics and scarcity, while developing their reading fluency skills. Vocabulary words and follow-up activities included. Listed concepts consistent with Backwards Design principles. By Marti Kramer Suddarth.
Old Mother Hubbard - A Lesson in Scarcity by Marti Kramer Suddarth is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unp
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1st - 2nd
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Reader's Theater: Economics in Action!
Use the power of Reader’s Theaters to help students learn key ECONOMIC concepts in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade! 4 individual scripts are provided that contain 3-5 parts each, guaranteeing that everyone is participating and engaged! Students will learn all about natural resources, capital resources, entrepreneurship, human resources, goods, services, market, budget, wants and needs and so much more with classic stories including The Little Red Hen, Stone Soup, The Ant and the Grasshopper, and The Emp
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Social Studies Reader's Theater Yearlong Bundle for 4th and 5th Grade
Political and Economic Systems and Founding Principles 2 Reader's Theater Plays
This resource includes two plays.Play #1 Product Description: Introduce your students to governmental and economic systems through a delightful blend of humor and education. Set in a reality cooking show, characters representing democracy, monarchy, communism, and more vie for culinary supremacy, students are taken on a flavorful journey that explores the core tenets and contrasts of each ideology. What’s included:10 Page Script (17 speaking parts)10 Page Script (Color-coded version)Reflection W
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Civics Store Growing Bundle
Entrepreneurship Readers Theater: "Turkey Dreams"—True Story–Fun to Perform
Entrepreneurship Readers Theater Script, "Turkey Dreams"—with Flexi-Curric™*A Readers Theatre Script By Carol Montgomery(updated February, 2018)"Once upon a camel there rode a turkey…". So starts "Turkey Dreams," a fun Readers Theater script that encourages entrepreneurship and positive qualities of courage, faithfulness, respect, and kindness. "Turkey Dreams" is great for ALL AGES. Perfect for elementary, middle school, ESL, family fun, maybe high school and adults, "Turkey Dreams" enhances
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3rd - 7th
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Economics Readers Theater - Resources Everywhere! - Literacy & Social Studies
My entire class was cracking up laughing with this reader's theater script! This is the one reader's theater performance that students asked if they could do again (an encore performance!) and all-around was acclaimed as the favorite.Using an integrated curriculum approach, this reader's theater will have students both practicing and improving their English literacy skills and practicing and deepening their understanding of social studies concepts in economics.The fun names for the characters ga
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2nd - 5th
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Icebergs In July - Economics for children
This lesson plan was designed for students in grade 2 in order to assist in their understanding of economics concepts. Students experience the roles of producers and consumers. Concepts of supply and demand; natural, human, and capital resources; goods and services; use of barter, money, and scarcity are explored. Students can experience this unit as either a performance or Readers Theatre.
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2nd
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Aunt Marti's Readers Theaters: Social Studies Volume 1
Ten Readers Theater scripts teach Social Studies content to first and second graders while providing reading fluency practice. Each script comes with a list of concepts that can be used as “Enduring Understandings” for Backwards Design, reading/vocabulary words to review during the introduction phase, and suggested follow-up activities. Three of the scripts are also available for purchase individually.
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1st - 2nd
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Class Economy - Getting Started & More!
What is Class Economy?Class economy is a behavior management system designed to create meaningful life experiences and connections with students. CE is a kid-friendly form of economics instruction to stimulate real-world economic activities while integrating positive behavior supports & building classroom community. Class economy incorporates hard-work to earn an income, how to work within a budget, concept of bills & taxes, & how to save money for future purchases. Never used an eco
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3rd - 6th
Economics Lesson in Incentives: "Classroom Helpers"
Using this easy-to-execute lesson plan, students will explore incentives and disincentives through a classroom experiment. Students will first volunteer for certain classroom helper positions. The teacher will then change the conditions (i.e. incentives) for the various positions. Students will predict how they expect the class as a whole to react to the changes in incentives, and then compare those predictions to actual results.This lesson plan includes a full script, step-by-step instructions,
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3rd - 6th
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame - A Baseball Musical in 9 Innings
I love baseball, and I love incorporating it into my classroom whenever I can. This product combines my love of baseball, history, and economics with musical drama! This product includes the script and all the tips and suggestions you will need to put on a great show! I even include information on how I included this as a part of a bigger baseball themed unit. Check out my store for more baseball themed items. This is also part of a bundle.
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Baseball Unit Bundle
Economics Project: Fiscal and Monetary Policy Presentation
In this activity, students work in groups of four to create a weather report of the economic conditions. They use creativity and humor to apply their understandings of recessions and inflationary gaps as extreme "conditions" in the "forecast" of a desired region.Within this report, students explain the expected impacts, interview a person "in the elements," and then pose an advice (policy) of how to respond to these extreme weather conditions. The document for this task includes an overview, rub
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: Economics Projects
Economics Readers Theater - Straw, Sticks, or Bricks
A readers theater story based on, "The Three Little Pigs."This story focuses on how the three little pigs' financial decisions impacts their futures. Two of the pigs manage their money poorly and can only afford to build their homes from straw and sticks. Meanwhile, the third pig who manages his money well can afford to build his house from sturdy, wolf-proof bricks.I wrote this readers theater story to introduce my 4th graders to the money management portion of our economics unit.The story incl
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3rd - 6th
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1920's Radio Show!
This is a great way to let the students do the work and create their own radio show. The lesson is designed for students to work in pairs or by themselves and create a fun and informative radio show. The students spend about 1 to 2 weeks writing up a script, bolding vocabulary and sharing with the teacher. From their they create and record their own unique radio show.
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7th - 12th
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Shopping Themed Musical Performance Script for Elementary Students
Shopping Mall ExtravaganzaThis shopping themed show would be an amazing culmination to a Financial Literacy or Economics unit!! It could also be great musical around the holidays. This performance package can be used by an elementary classroom teacher, a music teacher, a summer camp coordinator, or a drama program instructor. This show could be performed by anywhere from 20 to 100+ students depending on stage size. The length of the performance is approximately 40 minutes. This show was origina
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Not Grade Specific
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Reader's Theater - Pig Pig gets a job
This is a reader's theater script for 2nd-3rd graders. It is based on the story "Pig Pig gets a job" by David McPhail. Pig Pig wants to earn money, so his mother suggests he do some work. Students learn about being responsible and earning money, while practicing their fluency skills with this entertaining story!
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2nd - 3rd
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Communist Idea vs Communist Reality Google Slides
Presentation on the difference between the ideas of communism (equality and justice) and the reality of communism (tyrannical rule).
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Capitalism Communism Fascism economic system unit resources
Unit 1 Text
This is the text for Unit 1: About Decisions and includes text for each of the following sections1.1: Scarcity1.2: Opportunity Cost & Trade-off1.3: Decision Making1.4: Costs & Benefits1.5: Marginal Thinking1.6: Unintended Consequences1.7: Resources of Production1.8: Entrepreneurs1.9: Real Capital vs Human Capital
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Unit 1: About Decisions
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Find Economics resources | TPT
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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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