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Economics Common Core CCRA.W.4 worksheets
ECONOMICS: Personal Finance, Money Management & Creating a Budget
Overview:In this personal finance activity, students will examine their current personal money management habits and create a personal budget. After asking some life questions about their finances, students will assess their personal income, create a budget, and reflect on how they can improve their financial well-being. This super-practical activity for students can truly impact the rest of their lives. Enjoy this lesson and thank you so much for your comments and ratings!What's Included:Tea
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9th - 12th
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Supply and Demand Reading Comprehension Passage and Activities | Economics
Are you teaching your students about supply and demand in economics? This reading passage is a great addition to any social studies lesson! It will help your students apply their learning through the lens of a real-life example, Apple's introduction of the iPhone to the market. Use this passage to review economic terms and help your students gain a deeper understanding of supply and demand in economics! PLEASE CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE WHAT IS INCLUDED!This resource includes:Nonfiction Close R
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3rd - 5th
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Needs and Wants Reading Comprehension Passage and Activities | Economics
Are you teaching your students about needs and wants in economics? This reading passage is a great addition to any social studies lesson! It will help your students apply their learning to a real life company, Ford Motor Company, who helped meet American's needs and wants with the introduction of the Model T Ford. Use this passage to review economic terms and help your students get a deeper understanding of needs and wants in economics! PLEASE CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE WHAT IS INCLUDED!This re
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3rd - 5th
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Types of Insurance Worksheet (Distance Learning)
This handout/worksheet is all about how insurance works, showing students the basics of premiums, coverage, and deductibles. Then, it shows students all the different types of insurance and asks them some analysis questions about which policyholders should be charged higher or lower rates (and why). This generates a RICH class debate, because students really have some strong opinions about which policyholders should have lower or higher rates and it really hits at the conflict between fairness,
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
Goods and Services Reading Comprehension Passage and Activities | Economics
Are you teaching your students about goods and services in economics? This reading passage is a great addition to any social studies lesson! It will help your students apply their learning through the lens of a real-life example, Henry Ford's assembly line. Use this passage to review economic terms and help your students gain a deeper understanding of goods and services in economics! PLEASE CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE WHAT IS INCLUDED!This resource includes:Nonfiction Close Reading PassageMultip
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3rd - 5th
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November Portfolio Highlights: 2nd Grade Student Progress & Enriching Activities
This 'Second Grade Portfolio of Progress' for November is the ideal resource to capture and showcase your students' learning and development during the autumn month. With carefully designed activities spanning various subjects, this portfolio is a valuable asset for parent-teacher conferences, open-house exhibitions, and fall-themed activities. Inside, you'll discover an array of activities, including engaging writing prompts for goal setting, a hands-on economics social studies lesson, and a ma
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2nd
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Types of taxes, marginal tax brackets, deductions, credits (Distance Learning)
This handout is all about taxes! First students learn about the IRS and tax fraud/evasion. Then they learn about several types of taxes: income, FICA, sales, property, capital gains, and estate taxes. Then, they learn about marginal tax brackets. Next, they learn about the different types of tax deductions and tax credits. Then they learn about 3 types of tax forms (W4/W9, W2/1099, and tax returns). Finally, they learn about how making an LLC or S-Corporation can lower your tax bill. All through
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
Income/Wealth Inequality and Government Help
This handout first has students learn about the causes of wealth and income inequality in the U.S. and then examine several methods that governments can use to alleviate and solve this inequality. The solutions range from supply-side to demand-side solutions, with an explanation of supply-side economics, demand-side economics, and laissez-faire capitalism. It is formatted for google classroom. This handout has given my students fodder for some of the richest debates in economics class, and can l
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
This bundle can be used for an economics class that is one semester long, as it has students analyze aspects of economic thinking, personal finance, businesses, and the stock market. Here is a rough pacing guide for the bundle:Weeks 1-2: Introducing students to thinking like an economist and understanding basic frameworks for the economy. (Resources 1-8)Weeks 3-4: Introducing students to the first unit about their personal finance in the future. Students brainstorm and research their ideal caree
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) (Distance Learning)
This is a long handout that introduces students to the idea of a mutual fund, an index fund, and an exchange-traded fund. The idea is for students to understand how mutual funds allow one to have a diverse investing portfolio without doing all the work of researching hundreds of stocks on their own. It also shows students how to find and compare ETFs to choose one that would be the best to invest in. I suggest having students complete this after finishing the handout below, which is about how to
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
How Government Connects to My Daily Life (Distance Learning)
This handout takes students through a day in their life (it is New York City centric, where we have public sanitation, buses, and subways) and explains how government services and regulations are present at all times. Students are asked to write questions they have about each government service OR to explain if they think government should or should not be doing this, and why. It is formatted for google classroom. This one handout has yielded several days worth of discussion and debate about the
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Law and Justice Curriculum
Stock Market Research Packet (Distance Learning)
This is a 6 page independent research packet that teaches students about stocks, the stock market, and how to evaluate a stock based on 4 criteria: share price, unique value, morality, and financials. It explains various types of risks that could impact a company, but the main task is for students to learn about and analyze the stock market in general, then choose a stock and evaluate it by doing internet research about the stock's share price, unique value, morality, and financials, analyzing w
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Personal Finance Unit
Landlords, tenants, homeowners, government (COVID-19 and Distance Learning)
This independent work project has students learn about the crisis in housing costs during the COVID-19 pandemic from many perspectives (landlords, tenants, homeowners with mortgages) and the reasons why many people have lost income as well. Students are asked analysis questions and then tasked with both brainstorming ways government could solve these problems AND evaluating why their solutions might work and might not work. It is formatted for google classroom.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
Goods and Services
Use this pack to help teach your students the differences between goods and services. Start with the slides that show students examples of both and follow up with various activities that can be completed independently, with a partner, or within a small group. The pack includes cut and paste, a writing activity, a creative (advertisement) activity, as well as a mini book that can be printed in black and white or color.
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1st - 3rd
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Cost-benefit Analysis and Incentives (Distance Learning and COVID-19)
This handout has students understand and use a cost-benefit analysis chart for decisions they will make with their lives after high school. It then has students analyze incentives with examples they get from someone they know, their observations of people during the COVID-19 pandemic, and an example of teen marijuana use in Colorado. It is formatted for google classroom.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Public vs. Private Sector (Distance Learning and COVID-19)
This handout has students understand and analyze the differences between the public and private sectors, with references to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is formatted to be used as a google classroom document, with boxes for students to fill in their answers.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Law and Justice Curriculum
Credit Scores, Debt, Great Recession, Bank Loans (Distance Learning)
This handout has students learn about credit scores, which types of loans exist and who the lenders are (many of my students think the government is the source of all loans), how late payments affect your credit score, and then the handout broadens into how banks and loans impact the flow of money and jobs in the economy (with a big diagram about the flow of money and loans around the economy). Students learn about the subprime mortgage crisis and Great Recession, how the FDIC insures bank depos
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
Industrial Revolution - Capitalist-Worker-Consumer (COVID-19, Distance Learning)
This handout asks students to analyze the differing motives of capitalists, workers, and consumers. It's a good preface to the Industrial Revolution, and it ties into COVID-19 with modern references. It is formatted for google classroom. There can be the potential for some very interesting student discussions about these questions, so it can be used for a couple of days of lessons. This role-play about the Progressive Era might be a good activity for students to do after this, since it deals wit
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â European History (Ancient Greece to the Fall of the USSR)
Roaring 20s Problems, 1930s Effects and Great Depression (Distance Learning)
This handout gives students descriptions of five problems from the 1920s (agriculture, banking, foreign relations, labor, and race relations), asks them to predict the impacts on America, and then shows them the actual impacts in the 1930s and asks students what they think the government should do about them. It's an assignment that bridges the Roaring 20s to the Great Depression and serves as an anticipation guide to the New Deal. There are then 6 analysis questions that have them reflect on th
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â United States (U.S.) History Review and Summer School Packet
America and Meritocracy (Distance Learning and COVID-19)
This handout has students understand and analyze the idea of a meritocracy, including evidence that supports the idea that America is a meritocracy, evidence against it, asking someone they know who is 20 years older than them about this, and then analyzing economic data for different demographics as evidence for or against the idea that America is a meritocracy. Students then analyze how different types of economies create conditions that enhance or work against a meritocracy. And finally, stud
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
Career Interest Survey (Distance Learning)
This handout asks students to brainstorm the answers to 16 questions that are broadly about the type of work, work environment, salary, skills, hobbies, and talents that they could translate into a job. It can lead students to then choose a career based on how well that career matches up with their answers to these questions. It is formatted for google classroom.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Post-High School Career Research Unit
Industrial Revolution and 1848: Plan for improvements (Distance Learning)
This handout briefly describes problems during the industrial revolution that caused the revolutions of 1848. Then, it asks students to develop ideas for laws that could fix them and how to tax the population to pay for this. It is formatted for google classroom. It might help students if they do this activity first, which explores the many changes made during the early Industrial Revolution which hurt workers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Industrial-Revolution-and-Capitalist-Moti
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â European History (Ancient Greece to the Fall of the USSR)
Financial Literacy: Understanding Taxes - Lesson Plan, Worksheet, Video
Teach middle and high school kids the basics about taxes—from sales tax and income tax to even soda and travel taxes. Cash Course is an entertaining and educational PragerU show highlighting the importance of money management and financial literacy for grades 6+. The embedded links connect to the Cash Course video that can be watched before the lesson and a free printable worksheet that could be used as a quiz/formative assessment.
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6th - 12th
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Economics Introduction (Distance Learning and COVID-19)
This packet takes students through many basic ideas in economics: Goods and services, consumers and their needs (including Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs), the myth of the meritocracy and race/gender differences in personal wealth and the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, the 4 major types of economies, cost-benefit analysis, opportunity cost, incentives, and how the government and businesses can use incentives to get people to change their behavior to prevent spreading COVID-19. Very comprehensive. I
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
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Economics activities to try
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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.
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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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