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Economics games for Google Apps
House Hunters! Engaging Inflation Simulation (Memorable Money Supply Lesson)
This is a quick and engaging inflation simulation that students love. It asks students to bid against one another to win the house of their dreams (or nightmares!)In the second round, students budgets are doubled (effectively doubling the money supply for the controlled classroom economy). The simulation demonstrates clearly the relationship between money supply and inflation in one quick and engaging lesson that you and your students will come to enjoy!The directions given are:Inform everyone t
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Full Year of U.S. Government and Civics Essentials Bundle
★ Digital + Printable ★ Financial Literacy Escape Room / Breakout Game
Are you looking for a fun way to get your students excited about personal finances? Look no further! In this lesson, your students will solve clues about personal finance topics like taxes, student loans, loans, debt, and mortgages!You students will review fictional student loan and credit card statements, budget to purchase a home, calculate the payoff for their student loans based on the standard 10-year repayment plan, compare auto loan companies to determine the best deal for their financial
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: *BUNDLE* All Print + Digital Social Studies Breakout/Escape Room Lessons
Fun Business Ownership Escape Room Activity
Increase engagement in your high school business structures lesson with this fun, escape room activity. This activity covers types of business ownership (sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, nonprofit, franchise, and cooperative), advantages/disadvantages for types of business ownership, partnership agreement, franchise costs, and stock symbols. This resource promotes collaboration, teamwork, and problem-solving as students work to solve 5 locks and escape.No physical locks are needed
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Forms of Business Ownership Activity Bundle
Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism Simulation
This simulation highlights the differences between free markets and government planned economies. Students will be engaged in economics by playing rock paper scissors to simulate work and earn money. There are three rounds that simulate Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism. Each round is different and highlights something unique to each economic system. This Resource Includes:-Instructions/Teacher Guide explaining how to begin and conduct the simulation. This guide includes optional ideas on how
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6th - 12th
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Fun Business Careers Escape Room Activity
Get students out of their seats with this engaging, interactive 7-lock business careers escape room. This activity focuses on career opportunities in the business field, communication methods, workplace skills, job descriptions, career plans, and certifications needed. It is the perfect way to promote problem-solving, collaboration, and teamwork. Students will work with a partner or small group and race to complete the tasks. They will "score the job of their dreams" by solving the locks.Key Fea
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Business Careers and the Workplace Activities and Projects Bundle
Needs and Wants for Google Slides
Needs and Wants Game for the Google Classroom – Using Google Slides, this Needs and Wants game will help reinforce the difference between what a need and want is. Students will decide which objects are needs and which are wants in this fun and interactive 20 question game. This game can be used as a full class activity during your virtual meet-up with students, or as an individual student assignment. Simply assign the activity to students and have them complete and turn it in online. No matter w
Industrial Revolution DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM for Google Drive® | Distance Learning
The Industrial Revolution DIGITAL Escape Room will take students on a secret mission through two 360° VIEW rooms! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about the Industrial Revolution, Samuel Morse, Henry Ford, inventors, inventions and factory working conditions. Drag the mouse or keypad to move the screen for a 360 view! All you have to do is share the link with your students!! It’s THAT easy! No prior knowledge is needed.***STUDENT GOOGLE ACCOUNTS™ REQUIRED FOR USE***Students
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5th - 8th
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Financial Literacy Game - Credit Cards Activity Life Skills -FCS
Are you looking for a fun, way to review or introduce credit and credit cards to your life skills, finance, economics or FACS students? Your middle school students will love this financial literacy game! Students work in small groups to compete with one another to review credit and credit cards after reviewing with a Google slideshow!This resource includes a fun, printable board game for students to work in groups to compete and learn all the important information about credit cards. It also inc
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6th - 9th
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Entrepreneurs Reading Passages and Bingo Games Activities Bundle
Study entrepreneurs, economics, and business with these reading passages about Henry Ford, Mary Kay Ash, Wallace Amos, Milton Hershey, Sam Walton, Elon Musk, Harland Sanders, James Dyson, J.K. Rowling, Mark Cuban, Oprah Winfrey, Vera Wang, and Walt Disney, plus 2 bingo games that include many more famous entrepreneurs and business-related vocabulary. The reading passages give you a choice of biographical paragraphs with 4 questions each or paired texts with 8 questions each, or you can different
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3rd - 5th
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Capitalism vs. Communism Rock Paper Scissors Full Class Activity Game
Explore the differences between capitalism and communism through a modified version of the classic game "Rock Paper Scissors!" In this activity, students will start in different economic groups and can move up or down based on their wins and losses in multiple rounds of the game. As the activity progresses, students will experience the pros and cons of capitalism and eventually go through a communist revolution and the rise of a dictator. This activity is perfect for introducing a unit on the Co
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8th - 12th
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Farm to Table Activities Apples - Bread - Milk - Sweet Corn - First Grade
Do you teach Farm to Table? These four engaging Google Slides presentations will help your students understand the Farm to Table path. They will used the detailed visuals to recreate and sequence the product journey from point of origin to their plate.Here's what you'll get:✅ Apples Farm to Table 9 detailed slides✅ Sweet Corn Farm to Table 10 detailed slides✅ Bread Farm to Table 10 detailed slides✅ Milk Farm to Table 8 detailed slides✅ Teaching notes✅ Goods-Services Game Sheet✅ 3 choices
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Producers and Consumers Activities BUNDLE Kindergarten - First Grade
Giant Jenga - Stock Market Crash of 1929 simulation review game
This product was designed to help you engage students in a simulation of the 1929 Stock Market Crash - covering vocabulary, causes, effects, and culture of the time period. This simulation is highly engaging and interactive. Be prepared for FUN!Please note: This does not cover details of the crash itself - this is a simulation game to be played AFTER covering the content of the crash - leading to introducing the Great Depression to your students.This product includes the following:Editing Instru
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4th - 12th
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Business Education Class Fun Activity / Game - Entrepreneurship Class
This BUSINESS EDUCATION fun and engaging activity is sure to be a fun way to learn about meeting the wants and needs of a town and learning the types of businesses. This is a 'gamified' learning activity called 'Business Quest for Queensland' - a quest to meet needs and wants. Students are given a for a fictious town of Queensland and they are to use their critical thinking skills and business knowledge to complete the quest! My kids LOVED this!The resource includes easy-to-follow, step-by-step
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9th - 12th
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Simulation: The Stock market crash of 1929
Simulation: The Stock market crash of 1929This is a great interactive simulation that covers the stock market and stock values leading up to the Stock Market crash on Thursday, October 24, 1929, also known as “Black Thursday.” Students will first start by learning terms necessary to know, such as: stock, stock exchange, and buying on margin.Then in a group of 4, students will each group will choose stocks to "buy" from the actually time period. As the simulation begins, students will track and
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: US History Semester 2 Bundle: Unit 5- The Great Depression- World War II
Capitalism, Socialism, & Communism Monopoly
I created this game to teach about economic systems. There are three versions of the game: one for market economies (capitalism), one for mixed economies (socialism), and one for command economies (communism). This product includes Chance and Community Chest cards and instructions for each game. You can use these with standard Monopoly boards.
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7th - 12th
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Types of Economic Systems Vocabulary Puzzles | Review Economies | Google
This engaging puzzle is a fun way to review key ideas about various types of economic systems. Challenge your students to match 24 key terms with their definitions by rotating each piece to complete the vocab puzzle. Use it as a warm-up activity, re-teach opportunity, exit ticket, or review game before an assessment. Your purchase has editable, print & interactive, digital versions of the materials. Made for traditional in-class learning or digital 1:1 classrooms. Everything you need is incl
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6th - 12th
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Economic Systems Game (Engaging and Memorable Rock, Paper, Scissors Game)
This game creates a classroom economy using provided "class bucks", and then asks students to play rock, paper, scissors with classmates in an attempt to "get rich"! This activity is designed to be simple, engaging, and memorable while providing space for more thorough and deep discussions of economic systems and the effect they can have on government, politics, culture, and more. This has routinely been a student highlight of the year!The simulation demonstrates, in a very simplistic way, how e
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Full Year of U.S. Government and Civics Essentials Bundle
The Tragedy of the Commons Simulation (Slides, Worksheet, Instructions)
This engaging and fun game demonstrates very clearly the concept of the "Tragedy of the Commons" in a fun game followed by a quick class slides presentation. The product includes the class slides that walk the class through the simulation, a teacher instructions guide, a student worksheet for following along with the game, and a pdf print-out to create the "slips of paper" used in the simulation.This game is a class favorite that creates a lasting memory of our inclination towards competition ov
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Hot Wheels! Engaging Inflation Simulation (Memorable Money Supply Lesson)
This is the second edition of my favorite lesson-- the House Hunters simulation. In this version students bid on cars ranging from a mustang to a tractor and watch inflation rise as the money supply raises. This is a quick and engaging inflation simulation that students love. The simulation demonstrates clearly the relationship between money supply and inflation in one quick and engaging lesson that you and your students will come to enjoy!The directions given are:Inform everyone that they will
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Full Year of U.S. Government and Civics Essentials Bundle
★ Digital ★ American Free Enterprise System Breakout Game
Looking for a fun way to get your students talking, moving, and collaborating? Look no further!This game can be used as an introduction or review of the American free enterprise system. This digital breakout is hosted on Google Sites and contains information about the characteristics of the free enterprise system, the advantages and disadvantages, the roles of consumers, entrepreneurs, and the government, and the goals of the American free enterprise system.This Escape Room / Breakout Game is co
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: *BUNDLE* All Print + Digital Social Studies Breakout/Escape Room Lessons
Stock Market Game - Stock Market Simulation Game for Middle and High School
THE STOCK MARKET GAME! Create a virtual Stock Exchange in your own classroom and allow students to experience the basics of investing!In The Stock Market Game, students are introduced to the foundations of investing and how the stock market actually works. Open their eyes to new possibilities and teach them a tool they can use to improve their financial future! (While implementing essential math standards, of course!)The Stock Market Game includes everything you need set the stage and experience
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6th - 12th
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Earning, Saving & Spending Budget Worksheets for Use with Google Slides™
Help students understand a budget with this DIGITAL resource! These financial literacy budget scenario cards are perfect for the classroom using Google Classroom. Included are 24 expense cards to use with a budget, based on the information provided on each card. Students will find that some expense cards have unexpected expenses while others don't. They will learn how to log information onto a budget worksheet. This resource can be shared with your students through Google Classroom or Google Dri
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2nd - 4th
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Finance 101 Career Budget Game Sheet
If you haven't heard of or played the Finance 101 game before, I highly recommend it - it's FREE. The game is great to review the need for a good job, unexpected expenses, budgeting, needs vs wants, and so many more business/personal finance/life skill items. My students LOVE it. After we play it, I see them playing it in their free time for the rest of the school year (at least it's more educational than the snake game). I created this 2 page sheet to go along with the game. It gives the game l
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Budgeting, Investing, Credit, Debt Bundle - Notes, Activities, Test
Fun Digital Credit Escape Room Activity
Go paperless in your Personal Finance course with this digital escape room while integrating problem-solving activities into your credit unit. For this 7-task activity, students need to have a working knowledge of loan types, credit scores, credit cards, credit problems, and debt elimination strategies. Students will apply the 5 C's of credit, utilize a monthly payment calculator, answer multiple choice questions about credit problems, correctly identify key credit terminology, order debts using
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Personal Finance Activities and Projects Supplement Bundle
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Find Economics resources | TPT
If you’re an educator or parent looking for printable or digital resources to help your student learn about economics, TPT has got you covered. We’ve got a comprehensive collection of economics and financial literacy resources available, including activities and lessons on trade, goods and services, and the stock market to name just a few. With plenty of TPT high-quality resources at your fingertips, you’ll be able to teach economics to your students in no time at all.
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.
What types of economics resources are available on TPT?
There are many different types of economics resources sold by Sellers on TPT — from budgeting activities to simulation games to units.
How do I find economics resources on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing economics lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for economics resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
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