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Economics Common Core CCRA.SL.3 resources
Learning from The Lorax Conservation Mini Course CCSS Grades 3-6 Print and Go
Introducing the Lorax Conservation Mini Course: Celebrate Earth Day and Arbor Day with a learning experience that combines reading, writing, art, vocabulary, and economics. This comprehensive mini course is designed to inspire students to think critically about environmental conservation.Key Features:Comprehension Guide: A two-page guide helps students explore the world of "The Lorax" and its themes.Resource Identification Activity: Students categorize resources (capital, human, natural) to rein
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3rd - 6th
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K-ESS3-3
3rd Grade Social Studies Test Prep - Third Grade Social Studies Review
This resources include 40 DIGITAL and PRINTABLE task cards to make practicing and reviewing third grade social studies standards fun and engaging! Simple and easy to use with clear directions make these test prep task cards perfect for social studies centers and whole group SCOOT games! These 3rd grade test prep questions give students practice using map skills, reading timelines, identifying the seven continents, bodies of water, needs and wants, goods and services, and government.CLICK HERE fo
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3rd
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The Founder Movie Guide | Questions | Worksheet | Google Form (PG13 - 2016)
The Founder Movie Guide | Questions | Worksheet (PG13 - 2016) challenges to analyze and learn life & business lessons from Ray Kroc's story of persistence. Explore the relationship between supply and demand, analyze the business decisions both Ray and the McDonald brothers made, and prioritize the key attributes Ray credits to his success: talent, genius, education and persistenceCheck the preview file for high resolution sample questions to see if this movie guide is suitable for your stud
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â School Site License (1 SSL) 12 Movie Guide Bundle | Triumph & Inspiration
Shark Tank Worksheets: Viewing Guides & Vocabulary Activities, Economics
This is a packet of resources for watching Shark Tank in your classroom. The show is engaging for students and is a fun way to teach economic concepts. Product includes: OverviewIndependent viewing guideTeam viewing guide for peer collaborationOver 30 vocabulary flash cardsVocabulary Crossword Puzzle (answer key included)The independent viewing guide can be used by individual students as you play an episode. The team viewing guide is interactive and can be used for students working in pairs or g
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Entrepreneur Project and Shark Tank Worksheets - PAIR PACK -CCSS
The True Cost Documentary Movie Guide | Questions | Google Formats (PG13 - 2015)
The True Cost Documentary Movie Guide | Questions | Google Formats (PG13 - 2015) challenges your students to put themselves in the shoes of garment workers in India and Bangladesh and connect their experiences to the fast fashion industry. Explore the idea of advertisement and consumptionism. Analyze the argument that sweatshops might help poorer countries. Finally, explore what we can do as individuals to help reform the clothing industry.Check the preview file for high resolution sample questi
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7th - 12th
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NEEDS VS WANTS UNIT FOR KINDERGARTEN
This unit was created to meet standards based on over-arching themes in social studies standards throughout the U.S. This is a five day unit in which students will learn about needs vs wants, saving and spending, and goods and services. The last two days of the unit students will participate in an activity with a real-life application. Students will work as a group to create a good and a service. The good and service will be a need or a want. Students will have been collecting dollars throu
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K
Banking on Bitcoin Movie Guide | Questions | Google Formats (TVPG - 2016)
Are your students curious about Bitcoin? With all the news surrounding the new cryptocurrency, your students would do well to know about what may be an inevitable part of their lives growing up. Use this movie guide to help students deconstruct and make their own meaning of the information in the movie.Discuss with your students the 10 high-level, short answer and essay questions by pausing at the designated times on the movie guide. See the thumbnails for example questions and the preview file
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9th - 12th
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World Cup Economic Impact Assignment Economics | Sports Marketing | Business
The World Cup captures millions of people's attention across the world including our STUDENTS. Using this 2 page graphic organizer with 15 questions, students investigate this amazing gloabl sporting event and how it relates to business. After reading 2 online articles, students go on a webquest to learn about the sports marketing of the FIFA's big event at the World Cup. By performing online research, students dive into economics, sports marketing, and business in a meaningful way. INSTRUCT
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9th - 12th
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Industrial Revolution Activities: 4 Debates about Industrialization
Bring your unit on the Industrial Revolution to life with these four debates! These Industrial Revolution Activities add a modern twist to the study of the Industrial Age and Gilded Age, and will challenge your students to examine key issues within the rise of big business and the labor movement. This set includes four different debate topics so you can divide your students into smaller groups and encourage increased participation in the debate. A digital option with Google Docs has been added f
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7th - 11th
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Economics Activity: Business and the Environment
Here's a fun way to introduce both business concepts and environmental responsibility to your students. This activity utilizes the classic Dr. Seuss story "The Lorax" to teach students both sound and unsound business practices. This story was in many ways ahead of its time (1971), but its message is truly timeless: business can grow and provide economic benefits to society while also conserving precious natural resources. This is an important message that the future business leaders in your clas
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3rd - 12th
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Bitcoin- Hunting- What is Cryptocurrency? Listen, Short Answer, & Conversation
Let's embrace our virtual world by hosting this podcast-based conversation about the virtual currency -- Bitcoin. This episode hosts a modern-day treasure hunt, explains some of the mysteries of Bitcoin, and may fuel an important conversation with your students about investing money. As teachers, we may shy away from this topic too much and it might be one reason why some students will struggle needlessly in their future. Take away the taboo and let's talk about money. Please note, there is a
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Business Infomercial - Energy Drink Project Activity
This is a great lesson to showcase advertisements and economics in action. Students will be see what it takes to make an infomercial. They will learn the strategies to sell the products and see these strategies in action. Students will need to create an energy drink. Upon making their product name they now are in control of their entire branding with logos, slogans, bottling, pricing, distribution, etc. This really teaches students about the business models of the world. Then making the commerci
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6th - 12th
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Financial Literacy: What Is a Budget? - Lesson Plan, Worksheet, Video Link
Teach your middle and high school students about budgeting fundamentals, financial planning, and fostering responsible money management habits with this engaging lesson plan and worksheet. Links to a fun and engaging video series called "Cash Course" that can be watched in class.
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6th - 12th
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Structured Academic Controversy Lesson Plan - Student Loan Debt Elimination
This Structured Academic Controversy lesson plan provides you with a measured, highly structured, and respectful approach for one of the most critical debate topics for high schoolers in US History and government classes: Should Student Loan Debt Be Eliminated via Forgiveness or Bankruptcy? The SAC approach encourages critical thinking, teamwork, and respectful communication among students while developing reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. The issue of student loan debt is a hot
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9th - 12th
Great Debate: Universal Basic Income (UBI) - Teen Groups & Public Speaking
Looking for an interesting debate activity and topic and don't know where to start? Perhaps you're interested in introducing debates as a way to improve critical thinking or listening/speaking skills?This one-click ZIP download for the Universal Basic Income for citizens is perfect for teens and international classes. It encourages early high school/ late high school students (and adult ESL learners) to develop critical thinking and logic skills in a debate format. The download includes everythi
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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
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
The Cost of Disasters- Climate Change- Listen, Short Answer, & Conversation
This no-prep conversation starts with students listening to a podcast about the financial cost of climate change. This podcast does not spend time arguing that climate change exists. Uniquely, rather than appealing to emotions, this podcast focuses on the massive monetary cost of climate change. This fiscal appeal works for some students who might be concerned about the cost of going Green. Consider using this product for a more mature Earth DayThere is a transcript for this podcast episode. Thi
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Making a Budget (Distance Learning)
This handout asks students to create a budget for when they start working. The first part requires them to put down the salary for the job they researched in this activity:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ideal-Career-Research-Distance-Learning-6314338And then, based on their monthly income, they build a budget for themselves as an adult. They must interview 3 adults who pay their own bills to get estimates of what things cost as an adult, and then average the costs together, add them
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Post-High School Career Research Unit
Interactive Read Aloud--The OxCart Man by Donald Hall
This lesson plan and powerpoint will allow you to read Donald Hall's OxCart Man (AR Level 4.5) with greater depth and understanding. This 4-day lesson takes the students into the world of the OxCart Man as Donald Hall demonstrates the trading economy used in 19-century rural New England and includes comprehension and vocabulary discussion, along with combine, expand, unscramble and super sentence balanced literacy activities to increase grammar and writing skills for the older elementary studen
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3rd - 4th
TED Talk Listening Comp. Guide: Shopping
Listening to a language you are learning is a difficult activity. It is one of the skills that my English language learners take the longest to master, and for good reason. One way that I try to help my intermediate and advanced ELLs practice their listening skills is through TED Talk listening comprehension assignments. TED Talks are perfect because they are available on every topic you can imagine, not too long, and generally include a lot of academic vocabulary. This type of assignment is esp
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in:Â TED Talk Listening Comprehension Guide: 20 Guide Bundle, Set 2
TED Talk Listening Comp. Guide: Getting Everyone to Care About a Green Economy
Listening to a language you are learning is a difficult activity. It is one of the skills that my English language learners take the longest to master, and for good reason. One way that I try to help my intermediate and advanced ELLs practice their listening skills is through TED Talk listening comprehension assignments. TED Talks are perfect because they are available on every topic you can imagine, not too long, and generally include a lot of academic vocabulary. This type of assignment is esp
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in:Â TED Talk Listening Comprehension Guide: 20 Guide Bundle, Set 2
Financial Literacy: What Is a Budget? - Worksheet
Teach your middle and high school students about budgeting fundamentals, financial planning, and fostering responsible money management habits. Links to a fun and engaging video series called "Cash Course" that can be watched in class. Also, has an associated lesson plan for teachers.
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8th - 11th
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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.
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.
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