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Consumer Math & Financial Literacy - Credit Card Project (with Google Slides™)
You can purchase this product with other consumer math and personal finance activities and projects in a BUNDLE:Consumer Math and Financial Literacy Activities & Projects BUNDLEUpdated to also include a Google Classroom™ version in addition to the original print-friendly version! **************************************************************************************DOWNLOADED OVER 1,000 TIMES**************************************************************************************This is a credit
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5th - 12th
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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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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
Economics Unit and Entrepreneurship - Project Based Learning Open a Business
Prepare your future entrepreneurs with this Project Based Learning Entrepreneurship, Economics unit for upper elementary students. Students learn about local businesses and how they can build their own small businesses with a business plan and marketing. This Open and Run a Business PBL unit includes differentiation, problem-solving, collaborative learning, technology, research, and 21st-century learning skills. This comprehensive economics and entrepreneurship unit focuses on grades 3-5. (Sixt
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3rd - 5th
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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Shark Tank Business Plan Project for Fundraiser or Classroom Store
The popular TV show Shark Tank gives contestants the chance to share their business idea with a team of investors referred to as sharks. This project mimicks the TV show and makes a great end-of-the-year project or a project to raise funds for your class or school. Students come up with a project or service idea they can actually put into place. If you aren't using real money for this project, students could use this as part of the classroom management system. Students can spend the "money" they
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5th - 12th
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Supply & Demand Activities - Pizza Assembly Line Simulation & Economics Project
Open a pretend pizza shop and explore assembly line jobs with this classroom simulation. Teach economics in a fun way with this hands-on activity and project. In this history lesson, students will learn about supply and demand in economics. Through a simulation of a pizzeria, students will work together to complete specific tasks in the assembly line and collaborate to make their jobs more efficient, thus increasing production. This has been voted as my 4th grader’s favorite lesson of the entire
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3rd - 5th
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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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Economics Bag Book & Passages | Economics Interactive Notebook
This economics bag book or interactive notebook kit includes 13 PAGES OF INFORMATIONAL PASSAGES about goods and services, economic choices (needs and wants), producers and consumers, budgets, supply and demand, renewable and nonrenewable resources, and international trade, plus black line masters and step by step photo directions for making an economic bag book with your students. Also included, are 4 full color economics mini-posters and pocket chart cards for basic needs and supply/demand that
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Social Studies BUNDLE: Interactive Kits
Project Based Learning Math and Research - Run a Pizza Restaurant PBL Unit
Everyone loves pizza! In this real world Project Based Learning Math unit, students can open and run their own pizza restaurant. This student-centered PBL unit provides differentiation by giving student choice. This OPEN A PIZZA RESTAURANT real-life challenge requires students to use inquiry, critical thinking, and their creative minds during the high-interest cross-curricular [math, social studies, ELA] activities. Students integrate digital learning into the project as they investigate culture
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3rd - 5th
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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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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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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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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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
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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Market Day Project and Elementary Economics - Project Based Learning Activities
Students can become entrepreneurs by opening their own businesses. This PBL unit can be completed individually or in pairs. In this Market Day Economics Project Based Learning unit, students will become familiar with economics vocabulary, and learn about opening a business. At the end of the unit, the class will host a market day so they can sell their products or services. Students and guests will be given play money to make purchases. Students strive to sell all of their inventory.This student
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3rd - 4th
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Start A Food Truck - Middle & High School Project Based Learning Unit Careers
This project is perfect for summer school, home school, genius hour, enrichment, gifted, or independent work time!This comprehensive project is designed to help students develop essential skills in design, research, advertising, business, and presentation while creating a unique and marketable product.Students will work collaboratively and think creatively as they develop their food truck, select and purchase products within a budget, and craft their advertising campaigns. The end result will be
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5th - 9th
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The Life Project
Are you working on teaching your kids the hardships and joys of the economy? This project is a great, interactive way for your students to learn about budgeting, making choices and balancing LIFE! This project is designed to be a month-long project for upper elementary students. Students chose different aspects of a make-believe "life" such as a salary, occupation, housing, vehicle, family and insurance. Students keep a registrar of their budget in their "Life Portfolios" and each day they dr
Lawn Boy Novel Guide, Test, Online Stock Market Simulation
Lawn Boy Novel Guide, Test, Online Stock Market Simulation includes everything a teacher needs to use this great book in your classroom. Introduce students to economics, financial literacy, and personal finance using Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen.This comprehensive guide to Lawn Boy includes:- Chapter by Chapter vocabulary words, figurative language, and comprehension questions- One page vocabulary word list for the entire book, ideal for use with a Lawn Boy read aloud or when a student reads the boo
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3rd - 8th
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SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE
Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit. Let’s begin our entrepreneurial careers today!
Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.
Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience:
• Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled.
• Construct a prototyp
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Project Based Learning Math - Science Research - Open a Candy Store
Sweeten your curriculum with this Open a Candy Store Project Based Learning activity! We all love candy, and in this unit, students will put their math and science skills to use as they open their very own candy store. Students will use their imaginations to design their shop and invent a candy recipe. They will love showing their designs to classmates and parents.I have included a graphic organizer for growth mindset during this PBL unit. I have designed this Open a Candy Store resource to be c
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3rd - 5th
Fairy Tale Economics
This resource was created out of a need to teach a somewhat difficult concept in a fun and approachable way. This unit combines the economic concepts of: need vs. want, goods and services, producer and consumers, trade, entrepreneurship, opportunity cost, and scarcity with the fairy tales: Goldilocks and The Three Bears, Three Little Kittens,The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood. This unit supplies not only lesson ideas for how to use the st
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K - 2nd
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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
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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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