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Middle school economics lessons under $5
CREDIT, CREDIT SCORES AND RATINGS , Economics, Life Skills, Personal Finance
CreditThe Importance of Your Credit ScoreAn easy to implement and an effective lesson. This complete learning package will teach students how lenders determine credit risk, how a person’s credit score/rating is determined, explain the role of credit bureaus, the importance and benefits of good credit, and how to read a credit report. Essential and practical topics for our students.Included:1. Detailed Lesson Plan2. PowerPoint Presentation3. Credit; The Importance of Your Credit Score: Reading w
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Understanding Your Pay Stub Lesson - Paychecks, Deductions, & Income Taxes
This easy prep lesson uses realistic pay stubs to teach students how to understand their paychecks. Topics include gross vs. net pay, deductions, income taxes, benefits, and more. Includes Google Slides, guided notes, and a practice worksheet with answer keys!Students will learn how to read and interpret the information provided on their pay stubs using realistic sample pay stubs. You will lead students through the guided notes using the included Google Slides. Students will learn about each
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Wages & Paychecks Financial Literacy Lessons and Activities Bundle
Mercantilism Simulation | The Thirteen Colonies 13 Colonies
This lesson provides a fun educational simulation for students to experience trade during the age of mercantilism. The classroom interactive experience is set up so that they will see the impact of the rules created by England to limit trade, and increase profit. This has really helped my students to visualize a difficult economic concept. Students get to move around the room, trade goods, maximize their profits, and potentially smuggle! This lesson plan also includes two exit tickets to check f
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Colonial America | 13 Colonies | 17 Days of Lesson Plans and Assessment
This is Your Life - Budgeting Activity
A fun budgeting activity where students get to ‘choose their own life' based on their weekly income and expenses.Teach your students the importance of budgeting and saving while planning for everyday expenses and occasional luxuries. This activity is designed to teach budgeting and money management with students in middle primary. It can be used as a maths lesson or during humanities when covering economics. It is also a handy tool to begin discussions about poverty and inequalities in modern so
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3rd - 6th
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FDR's New Deal: Can YOU Solve the Great Depression?
This is a highlight every year. Students really get into this. I made this assignment because my students could never really grasp the enormity and complexity of the challenges FDR faced during the Great Depression. It seemed anti-climatic to just tell them about the bunch of New Deal programs, so I created an assignment that not only forces the students to brainstorm ways to alleviate suffering and prevent future crisis, but to acknowledge the criticism they will face no matter what actions the
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8th - 12th
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Career Exploration, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, ENTREPRENEURS, Careers, Employment
Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurs The worksheets for this lesson are in Google and PDF format, making it a great resource for distance learning or in-class instruction.Entrepreneurship is a practical and viable career choice, which is often underappreciated or over looked. This complete learning package exposes students to key aspects entrepreneurship. Objectives: Students will be able to • Define entrepreneur.• Describe the current trend with entrepreneurshi
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Economics, SAVING MONEY, SAVING, Personal Finance, Economics
Saving Money WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO SAVE.THE SECRETS OF SAVINGSCHOOSING THE BEST PLACE FOR YOUR MONEYThe worksheets for this lesson are in Google Doc format and PDF format, making this an excellent resource for distance learning or in-class instruction.This is a complete learning package with three lessons that cover the essentials about saving and savings account. Each lesson has reading comprehension worksheets, a PowerPoint presentation, a detailed lesson plan, and other worksheets to reinfo
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Types of Economic Systems: Paper Airplane Challenge
Teach students the different types of economic systems through the Paper Airplane Challenge; a fun and interactive way for students to learn about the four types of economies. Â Students begin by either being a producer or consumer of paper airplanes. Through this interactive challenge, students are introduced to the basic principles of each economy type (traditional, command and market). Â After small group and class discussions, students will view a Google Slides presentation providing more spe
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5th - 11th
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Also included in:Â Economics Lesson Bundle: Paper Airplane Challenge
Psychology: Classical Conditioning in Advertising Gallery Walk Lesson/Activity
Have you or your students ever fallen victim to classical conditioning embedded in advertising? This engaging lesson and activity will reveal how it happens all the time. This lesson focuses on engaging students by first teaching the concept through relatable examples. After completing a mini-lesson using a short Nike YouTube commercial video lesson that teaches the concept, students practice the concept by finding and sharing examples of their own. The final activity has students complete gall
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Opportunity Cost of College Mini-Project
In this activity, students apply the concept of opportunity cost to the economic decision of going to college. They examine both the opportunity cost of going to a college of their choice, and not going to college. This worksheet takes students through a step by step process to calculate this cost. At the end, students are required to answer a short answer question detailing what choice is best for them by explaining the opportunity cost associated with each decision. My economics students find
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8th - 12th
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Robber Barons / Captains of Industry Tactics: How to Form a Monopoly
Students explore how men such as Rockefeller and Carnegie formed monopolies during the Gilded Age. Provides context for terms such as vertical and horizontal integration, laissez faire, social darwinism, monopolies, trusts, etc. Students analyze primary source quotes and political cartoons, complete a Venn Diagram, create visuals to demonstrate understanding, answer questions, and create their own political cartoon.
Before using this I suggest using my "Robber Barons: Meet Carnegie, Rockefeller
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6th - 12th
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Business and Economics - Trade-Off and Opportunity Cost Activity
Trade-offs and what cost?Ugh! The Business and Economics curriculum is loaded with weird terms and complicated concepts. But it doesn’t have to be.You don’t have to work on Wall Street to teach your students about Trade-Offs and Opportunity Cost. You just need this ready to go resource pack.Your students will become experts in:Understanding why we make decisions and the consequences of those decisionsHow our choices impact our lives and the wider communityIdentifying a trade-off and why there is
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5th - 7th
Economic Systems: Intro to Free Market Capitalism, Command and Mixed Economies
Students are first "hooked" with an activity that has them imagine they live in 3 different families with very different parenting styles. They choose which parents they would prefer and why, which is great for a quick class vote or discussion. Then these families are linked to three different types of economies. Students fill out an organizer with your notes (which I provided) that provide definitions, context, as well as historical and current examples of these economies throughout the world.
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6th - 12th
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Research a Career - Research SIX Careers - Salary? Job Outlook? Education?
If you teach about careers then this career research resource will be perfect for by helping your students research six careers that they may be interested in pursuing. Students will use the Bureau of Labor Statistics web site to gather information such as job outlook, average salary, courses to prepare them, education required, etc. regarding the careers they are interested in.This Career Research resource is a good way to get students thinking about life past high school and will help them s
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6th - 10th
Progressive Movement: Labor Unions & Strikes Against Monopolies & Robber Barons
As labor organized in the late 1800's and early 1900's, they faced resistance and outright violence from management and government. Students are often shocked at how bad conditions were. Use this as a Gallery Walk, Jigsaw, group work, or any other creative way you would like. Each page has a bullet-point summary and visual of famous labor union vs. management/government strikes. A capture sheet with reflection/discussion questions is included (includes reflection on the negatives on labor unions
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6th - 12th
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Ancient Egypt and Kush Trading Game
Students will not only learn, but have fun while trading resources in Ancient Egypt, Kush, and Central Africa. Students will use trading cards with pictures of natural resources on one side and coin amounts on the other to import and export goods. Students will decide what amount makes a fair trade and is good for their economy.
Please visit my 114 page Ancient Egypt Unit:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ancient-Egypt-Unit-1245284
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5th - 12th
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Business and Economics - Scarcity, Supply and Demand PRINT
Explore the concepts of Scarcity, Supply and Demand with this pack of four activities designed especially for your Business and Economics HASS unit. Understanding economic concepts can be difficult for primary students. Making real life connections can help and the highly engaging activities in this pack have been designed to provide meaningful and age appropriate learning opportunities for upper primary students. In this pack you will find:Teaching notes and assembly instructionsA detailed less
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5th - 7th
Also included in:Â Grade 5 Business and Economics Complete Unit
Interdependence Trading Game and Worksheet
To go along with Social Studies discussions about interdependence, exports, and imports, this game puts students in charge of their own countries. They must trade with other groups in order to obtain the supplies that they need to be a successful country. There are 8 supplies total that all countries need: fruit, meat, water, transportation, wood, books, clothing, and gasoline. This packet comes with the color cards to print, the coordinating worksheet that guides students through the game an
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3rd - 6th
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Mock World Trade Game
Do you hate to teach economics? Do you need a way to engage students in economic concepts that they see as fun? Well, here's the game for you! I have presented this at multiple schools and conferences around the state of SC and have gotten excellent feedback. By taking on the identity of a "fake" country and determining how they will help their country survive, student groups interact with other groups in trading, buying, and selling products. But watch out...the teacher acts as "natural di
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5th - 11th
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The American Colonies and Slavery: Triangle Trade Map and Reading
This activity examines the "triangular trade" between the American colonies, England and Africa. The reading focuses on slavery and why the trade routes were in a triangle. The map focuses on the goods that were traded between these locations. The article comes from reference.com, I made the questions. MS Word for easy editing.
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Crash Course World History Mini Bundle: #24: The Atlantic Slave Trade
Invention
Calling all inventors! Have your students create their own invention while tying in skills such as steps in a process, marketing, sales, and resources. This is a great follow up activity to studying famous inventors too!
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2nd - 6th
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Inflation - When Money Loses its Value - Text and Exercise Sheets
Inflation happens when money loses its value and prices constantly rise. There are many causes of inflation.
Contents : 3 pages
Text
Exercises
Key
The sample contains a complete non-printable preview of the whole module (text- and worksheets)
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Economic Systems Debate Lesson Plan - Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism
This lesson plan has students compare and debate the characteristics of different economic systems. Students will look at how Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism differ from one another in the following 5 categories:
1. Role of Government
2. Incentives
3. Economic Freedom
4. Competition
5. Property Rights
Lesson begins with a brief 4 minute powerpoint that goes over what the 5 basic characteristics of economic systems are. Then, teacher divides the students into groups and pairs the groups
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8th - 12th
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Student Loan & College Admission Project
This web based research activity challenges students choose colleges they plan to attend college. Students will research admission standards for their colleges and compare those to their own academic successes. After choosing colleges, students will be taken through the loan repayment process. My students every year comment on how they had no idea the costs and requirements of their colleges. More importantly they understand long term loan payback and interest rates. The project lasts abou
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7th - 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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