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Earth Day economics resources for GATE
Gifted and Talented - Living on Your Own: Lessons in Financial Responsibility
Challenge your gifted and talented to play the “game of life” and survive financially during their first year in college. This concept-based unit allows students to “earn” an inheritance from a distant relative by repurposing items from a barn. With this “money,” students find affordable housing, transportation, furnishings, and other essentials. Then the “game of life begins with monthly reoccurring expenses, opportunities to buy additional necessities and/or wants, as well as challenges or o
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5th - 8th
Holiday Budgeting Activities : Bonus Ugly Sweater Design Activity
Perfect for middle and high school economics and civics. Use these activities in class individually or as a holiday lesson. Students choose a random budget and have to plan a holiday party and/or budget for gifts. Bonus Activity: My gift to you,for those last days before break. Have students design and ugly Christmas sweater! This resource includes: -Holiday Party Plan Activity -Gift Budgeting Activity -5 templates for ugly Christmas sweater You may also like:EOC Review PacketConstitution Scave
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Year Long Holiday Activities for Middle School and High School Bundle
Plan a Bake Sale - Project Based Learning Unit Math and Economics Unit
Everyone loves cupcakes and sweets from a bakery. In this PROJECT BASED LEARNING - PLAN A BAKE SALE unit, your students learn about economics and entrepreneurship as they open their very own bakery (option: have a bake sale). This student-centered project incorporates collaboration and differentiation by providing student choice. This real-world challenge requires students to use inquiry, critical thinking, and their creative minds during the high-interest cross-curricular [math, ELA] activities
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: Project Based Learning Math Bundle With Writing and Research - Economics
Save The Bees Clipart Set - EARTH DAY {Educlips Clipart}
This is a set of images that show ways to help protect the bees:Images included are: bees, child putting out basin of water for bees, beehive box, beehive house, beekeeper kids, kids with 'buy organic' bags, examples of bee friendly flowers and weeds (clematis, daisies, dandelion, delphinium, poppy, sunflower, thyme) kids with hive drawer, hive, organic honey jar, weedkiller with separate red cross (to show no use of weedkiller), save the bees word art sign.48 images (28 in color and the same 28
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Care For The Earth Clip Art Bundle - EARTH DAY {Educlips Clipart}
April STEM STEAM Challenge: Earth Day Edition
Earth Day is the perfect day for reducing, reusing, recycling, and STEAM! The challenge? Build a "litter bug" out of litter. The bug must balance on 6 legs, and all legs must come from the thorax. All your students will need is a little litter and a lot of creativity!
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differenti
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K - 5th
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Financial Literacy Reading Passages | Personal Finance | Making Money Grow
Would you like to give your students a jump start on becoming financially independent? Do you teach Personal Finance or Financial Literacy in your class? This fun financial planning packet gives students a clear picture of the beginning world of Financial Intelligence. Share with students that they are never too young to begin a financial education and that they are capable of creating wealth tomorrow if they start making wise choices today. While it’s great to teach students how to be smart con
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5th - 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
Earth Day STEM Challenge Activity - New Earth City
This is the perfect Earth Day STEM activity!The basic idea: It is Earth Day, and the year 2035. Earth has become overcrowded. The students are part of a pioneering crew tasked with setting up the first city (New Earth City) on Planetopia, a fictional name for a recently discovered Earth-like planet in a distant solar system. Part of the mission is to set up the city to prevent or address the problems we are having on Earth so we don’t repeat our errors on our new home planet. This challenge is b
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2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Goods and Services Producers and Consumers Economics Activity Second Grade
Looking for an engaging early elementary economics lesson? Your students will gain a deep understanding of buyers and sellers (producers and consumers) in a community with this fun simulation activity. Your second or third grade social studies students will love creating their own good or service. This resource is suprisingly low-prep for how interactive it is. Simply print, cut, and go! You'll get teacher instructions, classroom procedures, printable student sheets, a student reflection sheet,
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2nd - 3rd
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What Problem Will You Solve: A Critical Thinking and Writing Activity
So often, we ask students what they want to be when they grow up but let's shift the mindset. Instead, pose the question of, "What problem will you solve?" This project encourages students to think both critically and globally to help solve issues in our world today. Included in this product are multiple ways for students to brainstorm problems, vocabulary, and processes. There is also draft and final publishing paper that can be used to write a culminating essay.This is a great beginning OR
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Bundle: Monthly Writing Projects for Upper Elementary
Carnival Game Economics PBL Project-Based Learning GATE
Smaller tasks add up to big, big learning with this gold medal standard project-based learning activity! What a sneaky cool way to learn math, economics, and functional design! (Insert evil teacher laugh.) It’s a hands-on approach to Common Core Standards.
In Carnival Game Economics, students design a carnival skill game and gather data as junior market researchers during the test phase. They’ll use this data to help make decisions. After making calculations for probability, students will
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
Ecosystems & Environmental Concerns PBL | Science Project Based Learning
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach about different ecosystems and their environmental concerns? Interested in student driven learning?This Project Based Learning unit allows students to learn about ecosystems by examining an environmental issue within an ecosystem. Students act as environmentalists as they research the causes and effects as well as problems and solutions of an environmental issue by examining the different factors that make up an ecosystem. This is a student-centered wa
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Science PBL | Project and Problem Based Learning Bundle
April STEM Activities with Earth Day STEM Challenges and Close Reading Passages
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The APRIL STEM Design Challenge COLLECTION is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It gives you FOUR OF MY BEST SELLING STEM CHALLENGES that will seamlessly allow you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passages IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activities! Watch your kids fac
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3rd - 6th
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Earth Day Shoebox Solar Oven STEM Activity & April Challenge | Renewable Energy
Earth Day is here and your teacher life just got a little busier with Earth Day activities you need to plan. Use Earth Day STEM activities to cover standards and give your students super fun Earth Day activities they will love. This ready to go Earth Day Shoebox Solar Oven STEM Activity and April STEM Challenge or Renewable Energy Project is just what you need to keep your 2nd through 5th grade students engaged and excited for learning during the month of April. Challenge your students to design
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: April and Earth Day STEM Activities & Challenges BUNDLE for Elementary
T-Shirt Entrepreneurs PROJECT BASED LEARNING Math Economics GATE 4-8th
Your students will be excited for this “gold medal standard” project-based math, design, and economics activity. It’s appropriate and adaptable for 4th – 8th grade. It has been a staple for my 4th grade gifted and talented math group since 2013.You won’t be the sage on the stage. Students will problem-solve their way through the project working in collaborative teams, and the teacher will guide, be a resource, spur discussion, play devil’s advocate, and provide mini lessons when necessary.In
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEAM Class BUNDLE - Math Focus Hours of Hands-on Projects GATE Gifted
Earth Day STEM Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Earth Day Activity - This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills. Oh no! People are throwing away too much trash! Your students need to reuse some things from the trash to make something new and useful. What will they come up with? This Earth Day STEM will get your students using their critical thinking skills to solve this challenge! Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies.
Suggested Plan of
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
April Early Finishers Choice Board
An excellent resource for early finishers or for independent work time that requires higher level thinking with SCAMPER terms (Substitute, Combine, Add Something, Magnify/Minify, Put to Other Uses, Eliminate, Rearrange) and words from Bloom's Taxonomy: Create and Evaluate.
You will find a color version which you can laminate for durability. A black line version is also included to make individual student copies.
Try a FREE Sample: August
This is part of a bundled package:
Monthly Choice
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3rd - 5th
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Bird Beak STEM Activities and Pollination STEM Challenge
Learn about bird beaks and pollination while reading a story! Get ready for a STEM adventure with Beth the budding ornithologist. Students will choose which challenges Beth should try as she watches birds. Students will learn about pollination, bird beaks and feeding behaviors, and other fun facts about various birds. Based on their choices, they will encounter different STEM challenges. Materials Needed: In addition to containers of water, you can use any materials you have, but I recommend ind
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2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges for the Whole Year - Upper Elementary 3-5
Add & Subtract to 20 | Project Based Learning | Donut Shop | Module 2
Enrich your students' learning with this project based learning unit that focuses on addition and subtraction within 20. Students work with peers or on their own to pretend to open a donut shop This project encourages teamwork. It provides deeper understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction, as well as introduces place value.This hands-on activity walks them through the steps of opening a donut shop. Students create their own donut shop, menu and advertisement. They take or
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1st
Seeds of Change Earth Day READ ALOUD SCIENCE™ Activity
Includes Easel Activity for Google Classroom Distance Learning.Integrate Real World STEM on Earth Day and engage kids by learning about plants and seeds!Teach about the importance of plants with this Earth Day Science Activity! Students learn about the importance of plants. Then, they create their own seed bomb to plant and observe over time.Connect to a Read Aloud: Seeds of ChangeThis STEM Project is a companion activity to Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace by Jen Cullerton Johnson. The
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2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Market Day PBL: Upper Elementary Project, Create Your Own Business
The Market Day project for elementary students is a hands-on experience where kids become entrepreneurs. They brainstorm and create a product, learn teamwork and basic economics, and explore advertising. The project culminates in a Market Day event where students set up booths to sell their products, applying math skills and engaging with customers. Afterward, they reflect on their experiences, celebrate successes, and gain valuable insights into teamwork and business basics. This fun and intera
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3rd - 8th
Summer STEM Activities for Building Bricks: STEM Mats
Easy STEM activities for summer! These STEM projects use mats that are SO easy to set up in your classroom. If you were thinking of trying STEM Fridays or Maker Mondays, or you need something more engaging for your early finishers than worksheets or reading, this is the resource for you. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math skills. CONTENTSInstructions and sample imagesLetter you can send home to parents, caregivers,
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K - 4th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Also included in: STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
Recycled Robots STEAM Project| Earth Day Project | Editable
This STEAM project includes directions for students to create a recycled robot to help celebrate Earth Day! Or you can decide when to give this project to your students and change up the directions as it is editable!It also includes a robot commercial planning sheet for students to be able to share about their robot. Students could then decide how to produce their commercial whether just getting up in front of the class and reading it or recording it using apps such as imovie, shadow puppet edu,
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3rd - 5th
April and Earth Day STEM Activities & Challenges BUNDLE for Elementary
Earth Day is here and your teacher life just got a little busier with Earth Day activities you need to plan. Use Earth Day STEM activities to cover standards and give your students super fun Earth Day activities they will love. This ready to go Earth Day STEM Activities and Challenges Bundle for Elementary Kids is just what you need to keep your 2nd through 5th grade students engaged and excited for learning during the month of April.Challenge your students with exciting Earth Day STEM challenge
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2nd - 5th
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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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