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Economics Common Core CCRA.R.5 resources
Economics Digital Activities - Supply Demand, Goods and Services, Money Lesson
This bundle of digital Economics activities are easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.These Learning Quests provide literacy and research activiti
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Needs and Wants Digital Activities - Needs and Wants Lesson Plans - Economics
These digital Needs and Wants activities are easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.Why do teachers and students love our Learning Quests?We all kn
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in:Â SOCIAL STUDIES Digital Activities for 1st and 2nd grade
Supply and Demand Digital Activities - Supply and Demand Lesson Plan - Economics
These digital Supply and Demand activities are easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.Why do teachers and students love our Learning Quests?We all
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in:Â SOCIAL STUDIES Digital Activities for 1st and 2nd grade
Money and Financial Literacy Digital Activities - Economics Lesson Plan
These digital Money and Financial Literacy activities are easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.Why do teachers and students love our Learning Que
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in:Â SOCIAL STUDIES Digital Activities for 1st and 2nd grade
Goods and Services Digital Activities - Goods and Services Lesson Plans
These digital Goods and Services activities are easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.Why do teachers and students love our Learning Quests?We all
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in:Â SOCIAL STUDIES Digital Activities for 1st and 2nd grade
Lawn Boy Novel Study Digital Comprehension Questions Vocabulary Activities
LIGHT a FIRE of entrepreneurship in your students with this EXHILARATING novel. Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen is an OUT of THIS WORLD novel to read with your upper elementary or middle school students. Lawn Boy is jam packed with amazing economics vocabulary and teaches students about how hard work pays off.Learn about how Lawn Boy grows a business using his grandfather's lawn mower. A great coming of age story that circles around economics and entrepreneurship. Tie your Social Studies right into yo
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5th - 7th
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
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
Economics Case Study: McDonald's Restaurants
Liven up your Economics, Business, or American History classes with this highly interesting and strongly relevant case study on the McDonalds Corporation. How a small burger and fries restaurant became the world's largest food corporation is a fascinating story. Beautifully written and elegantly illustrated, this case study presents the students with challenging business concepts and historical themes involving leadership and sacrifice, and it is sure to inspire some amazing class discussions. T
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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
Econ & Financial Literacy for Kids (Project Based Learning)
This is a 5 week project where students create children's books that cover various concepts covered in their high school economics and financial literacy course. Project includes detailed assessment list (rubric) as well as vocabulary end of course review to be completed by students as homework. In advance of this project you will want to connect with a local elementary school teacher (preferably grades 1-3) that the final books can be presented to either in person (Field Trip!) or through Skype
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9th - 12th
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Economics Simulation: Lemonade Stand Data Analysis Activity
This activity is a supplement to the Creative Curricula product already offered through TPT: Economics Simulation Lemonade Stand. You can find the simulator at www.coolmathgames.com/ , and then use the Search function to find the Lemonade Stand. If your students have successfully completed the classic Lemonade Stand simulation, they are very familiar with the various variables involved with it. This activity sheet takes their understanding to a whole new level. Profit margins, business strategi
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Lesson Plan: Fa-la-la-la-la - Trickle Down Theory for Christmas
This lesson is just right for Christmas. Connecting economic trickle down theory and a beloved Christmas story, my newest lesson will stimulate your students to critical thought while warming their hearts with some well-earned Christmas cheer!This all-inclusive lesson provides not only a creative cross-curricular look at literature and economics, but it also provides three or more days of thoughtful writing, researching, analyzing, and discussion activities for your students. Give them the gift
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6th - 12th
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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
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
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
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
World Travel Presentation: Geography, Economics, ELA Distance Learning Project
***PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRODUCT*** Are you ready for your biggest adventure yet?This product includes:Instructor and student guided lesson planTravel project outlineSpecific resourcesWebsite directional instructions Custom graphic organizer printable templatesPrezi account instructionsIntegrated subject learning: Geography, Economics, Mathematics, English, History, Technology, HealthDeep learning, real world considerationsBudgeting practice Creative writing story promptUse this product again and a
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4th - 12th
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The Economics of drugs (Distance Learning and COVID-19)
This assignment gives students 4 choices of tasks to write about. They can work by themselves or in groups up to 3 people. As they add people to their group, they must complete more tasks (1 task for each person). The tasks are about different drug-related issues and the economics of them (marijuana legalization, being a drug dealer, the opioid epidemic, and the anti-vaccine movement). The assignment allows students to write a research paper, make a video, or record a podcast, but all assignment
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Economics Bundle: Personal Finance, Businesses, and the Stock Market
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)
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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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