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2nd grade economics projects
Shark Tank Elementary Economics Project for Inventors and Entrepreneurs
Loosely based on the show, Shark Tank.... this is a great unit to use for late elementary and middle school students to learn economic terms while working through the planning process of designing a good or service as an entrepreneur. Includes planners for all steps of the process and links to Shark Tank snippets on YouTube as examples too! Thank you and enjoy! ⭐ CHECK OUT THE FULL PREVIEW ABOVE! ⭐ * Each section of the project below includes teacher directions * Links to Shark T
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2nd - 7th
Market Day Project |Project Based Learning |Start a business |Financial Literacy
Bring Market day to your classroom! Students will learn about different types of businesses, profit, how to create a business plan and make it come to life! This Market day project is engaging, fun and gets the students thinking out of the box to create their very own business! It was inspired by Shark Tank. This is a BIG hit with my class and by far their favorite project. This project takes 1 week to complete and is a perfect project for financial literacy unit, end of the year project, GT pro
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2nd - 5th
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Holiday Economics Christmas Project Based Learning PBL Wants Needs Goods Service
Looking for a fun way to teach your economics unit to your students? This Christmas project based learning unit is a fun way to embrace the holiday craziness & turn your classroom into a North Pole workshop! In this PBL unit, your students will learn about wants and needs, goods and services, producers and consumers, and so much more! ⭐The overall objective of this unit is to turn your students into entrepreneurs and your classroom into a North Pole workshop!⭐You will teach various social st
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K - 5th
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Economics Unit PBL - Market Day, Needs and Wants, Goods and Services Activities
Looking for an authentic learning experience for teaching economics to your primary students? This bundle includes engaging activities for goods and services along with needs and wants. This bundle also includes a large product that includes everything needed for a Market Day PBL. A Market Day project is a wonderful way to end the economics unit in your classroom! Check out my video ALL about Market Day! Click Here.Save 20% with this Bundle!Products Included:Related Products► Market Day PBL - ED
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1st - 3rd
Wants and Needs
The concepts of "wants" and "needs" are important for kids to learn early on, and this activity pack is exactly what you need to teach this lesson! It's designed for the primary grades, although it can be used in the upper grades, as well. Your students will have a blast!
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⬟ Template for genie bottle (wants)
⬟ Template for heart (needs)
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1st - 4th
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Second Grade Social Studies-Common Core Economics Unit
This is an economics unit for second grade that is aligned with Second Grade Common Core Social Studies Standard E.1.1-1.6. This unit includes almost everything you need to teach this standard. There are lesson plans for you, a student book, a study guide, a test, a take home project with a parent letter, a wallet and money and a classroom game. This is a 10 day unit.
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2nd - 3rd
Economics - Goods and Services, Supply and Demand, Import Export, 2nd, 3rd Grade
This is a project based economics unit that is totally hands-on and motivating. Students create their own businesses then buy and sell from each other. Directions and examples of student projects are included. Created for second and third grade students.Learning Objective: Students will understand:*Goods and Services*Supply and Demand*Import and ExportResources Included:*School money*Student response sheets*Foldable*Cut and paste*Circle map*Parent letter*End of unit quiz *Answer Key
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2nd - 3rd
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Market Day PBL with EDITABLE FORMS
Looking for an engaging PBL to help teach economics in your classroom? Check out this fully loaded Market Day PBL! This product includes over 160 pages of materials needed to have an amazing Market Day with your students! To make a Market Day as authentic as possible, I split this activity up into about 5 -8 days of activities. I have included 10 pages of teacher tips and lessons for this activity.Check out my video ALL about Market Day! Click Here.This includes:•Making a Business Plan (page 4)
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1st - 3rd
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Economics Activities Unit | Project Based Learning | Financial Literacy
This is an entire UNIT for a Project Based Learning Unit on ECONOMICS and FINANCIAL LITERACY. It takes a teacher and their class, step by step throughout the entire Economics Curriculum. Don’t let planning PBL Units stress you out! This unit is all set for your entire planning. It will save you hours of your time.Some Lessons are DIGITALOVERVIEWEconomics For Kids helps students gain life skills in problem-solving, investigating, financial literacy and engages them in challenges. We start a clas
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2nd - 3rd
Also included in: Project Based Learning Curriculum | 2nd Grade PBL Activities
STEM One Plastic Bag Challenge |Earth Day
Are you looking for fun STEM activities that your students will enjoy as they learn about the importance of recycling? Great for Earth Day! It connects to the book One Plastic Bag by Isatou Ceesay and The Recycling Women of Gambia. Students will research Gambia and learn the effects of not recycling. Students can use the flip book and lap book to show evidence of their learning. Students will problem solve and think critically as they complete their challenges. Included in this packet: Teacher
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2nd - 6th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Project Based Learning Math and Economics Unit - Open a Chocolate Shop Project
Everyone Loves chocolate! This project based learning math and economics unit is perfect for primary students with a yummy Chocolate Shop theme. Students can work collaboratively as they create their own chocolate bars. YUM!! Plus, this unit will go with your books about chocolate!You can pick and choose how you want to implement the unit. Each activity can be a great addition to your economics unit. (Each activity should be self-explanatory.) I've included different activities that 2nd, 3rd or
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2nd - 4th
Farm to Table
A elementary unit designed to look at how food gets from our nation's farms to our local grocery stores. Includes an introduction to important economic vocabulary and a booklet that explains the basic history of food production in our country. L1: Assessing Prior Knowledge… • What is a Farm?• Needs vs. Wants• Where do we get food? • Why are farms important to us? L2: Economic vocabulary. • Producers and Consumers • Goods and Services• Needs and WantsL3: How food was produced and consumed long ag
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2nd - 4th
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Elementary Economics: Student-Created Business Hands-On Project
Want your students to learn and practice economics concepts like producers, consumers, goods, and services in a hands-on way?? In this project, students create their own businesses and actually have an opportunity to "sell" the goods or services!To begin, you’ll want to form groups of 2-3 students. I provide basic materials like construction paper, cups, beads, string, popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, etc. I ask parents to donate anything else they might need if possible. I’ve had students create
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1st - 5th
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Communities | 1st or 2nd Grade Social Studies Unit | Helpers, Types, Places
Spruce up your 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade social studies unit with these community activities! This all inclusive unit will cover types of communities, community helpers, community places, goods and services and renewable vs nonrenewable resources.Students Will Learn:About 3 types of communities (urban, rural and suburban)What type of community they live inGoods vs servicesRenewable vs nonrenewable resourcesCommunity helpers: police officers, firefighters, construction workers, doctors, teachers, far
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1st - 3rd
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Goods and Services Sorting Activity | 1st or 2nd Grade Social Studies
Spruce up your 1st or 2nd grade social studies unit with this goods and services sorting activity. Perfect for both communities or economics, students will learn what the difference between goods vs services is, and then sort various items based on if they are a good or service.Students will learn:What is a goodWhat is a serviceSort the difference between goods and servicesWhat's Inside:Teaching GuideVideo research suggestionsPicture ExamplesEssential QuestionLearning TargetVocabulary CardsSorti
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1st - 3rd
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Goods and Services: A Project-Based Learning Unit
Students will be highly engaged with this project-based learning unit! I have included a step by step guide in order to make this unit a success. Planning sheets, photos, and descriptions are included so that the implementation is smooth! Students will choose a good or service to make and sell. They will also create a business sign and commercial to go along with their good or service! This unit is highly integrated and meets cross-curricular standards! Enjoy!
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K - 3rd
Economics Unit and Mini-Society Resources!
This Economics Unit and Mini-Society packet covers Georgia Performance Standards:
SS3E1 The student will describe the four types of productive resources: a. Natural (land), b. Human (labor), c. Capital (capital goods), d. Entrepreneurship (used to create goods and services)
SS3E2 The student will explain that governments provide certain types of goods and services in a market economy and pay for these through taxes and will describe services such as schools, libraries, roads, police/fire pro
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2nd - 5th
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Economics Unit- Resources and Market Day Project
This packet contains resources to help you teach your economics unit. These engaging resources cover concepts such as goods, services, producers, consumers, resources, income, work, and more! Activities included are:
* Goods and services sort, with answer key
* Economics vocabulary foldable (blank inside, to be differentiated as needed)
* I have, who has card game, with answer key
* Home interview sheet
* Planning My Future sheet- what I want to do when I grow up
I've also included a fun cl
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2nd - 4th
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STEM Architecture Activities | History of Frank Lloyd Wright
Are you looking for STEM activities to connect to geometry? I have the one for you! It connects to the book The Shape of the World a Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright by K.L Going. Architecture and Geometry STEM gives students the opportunity to research the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright as they look for geometry that is in nature. Students will problem solve and think critically as they design and create. Included in this packet: Teacher PagesLesson Plans (Day 1-5) Next Generation Standard
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2nd - 6th
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3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Mind Your Own Business - An Economics Craftivity
This craftivity make personal finance fun! Students will create their own original business and determine needs, wants, if it provides a good or service, and determine the benefit the business provides for the community.
Class Auction Bundle
Are you interested in holding an auction in your classroom? This bundle includes everything you need to create a fun and exciting CLASS AUCTION in your classroom.
This product includes:
-Parent Letter
-EDITABLE Parent Letter (PowerPoint file)
-Informational Close Reading Passage about Auctions
-Text-Based Comprehension Questions
-Numbered (1-30) Auction Paddles
-“Class Auction” Banner
-Auction Plan & Reflect Activity
This would make a for a great event if you use any sort of a classroom
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1st - 5th
Economics Market Day Event
Market Day Event- Economics Made Fun-Perfect End of the Year Event!
Economics has never been better than this! Students are able to become entrepreneurs. The students open a business by creating a product or providing a service. Market Day Bucks, that are provided with this purchase, can be laminated and used every year. Give another class the bucks or give an entire grade level the bucks to become consumers for your students.
• Page 2 Event Explanation
• Page 3 Parent Letter
• Page 4 Busi
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1st - 3rd
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Make a Community Map: A Mapmaking Project
Practicing and mastering learning about what makes up a community and making maps is so engaging with this activity. Students plan their communities, create their maps, and write about them. This project typically takes my students several weeks to complete at the end of the year as an application project after studying communities all year. Students love to practice their social studies skills with this resource! This helpful product includes:•lesson plan•useful websites•sample communities•comm
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2nd - 3rd
Economy | Design a Store | Producer | Social Studies Project
Are you teaching economics to young learners? If so, this “Design A Store” project is perfect for you! This application project is perfect for kindergarten, first, and second graders learning about what it takes to produce and sell products during their economy unit. Students become the producer and design a store, plan for the materials they will need, practice pricing, design posters to advertise, and more! This resource can be used to enhance your current social studies unit on the economy by
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Social Studies Primary Project Bundle | Geography | Economy | Map Skills
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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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