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5th grade economics thematic unit plans $5-10
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
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
Economics Unit Digital Only Distance Learning
Your students will learn about economics in this unit that includes an informational text and a unit test. Now you can take your learning digital using your Google Drive! This unit includes digital options only. It includes a digital version of the student text with the reading questions that the students can complete online using Google Slides. The unit test comes a Google Forms version that is graded automatically.If you would like a printable, paper-based unit that include a lapbook or intera
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3rd - 5th
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Shark Tank Elementary Entrepreneur Project and Elementary Economics Unit BUNDLE
Take the planning and prep out of teaching economics to elementary students with this ECONOMICS BUNDLE! This bundle includes the full, multi-week best seller Shark Tank project and a full Introduction to Economics Elementary Level unit with 13 learning activities and teaching tools!Check out each listing for full descriptions and previews!⭐ CHECK OUT THE FULL PREVIEWS ABOVE! ⭐ Shark Tank:Loosely inspired on the show, Shark Tank.... this is a great unit to use for late elementary and middle scho
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2nd - 5th
Virginia Studies SMARTboard Lesson - Colonial Virginia Unit - VS.4
**Updated to the NEW Virginia SOLS (2016)**
This is a 35 page instructional SMART Board lesson that covers Virginia Studies SOLs VS.4 - the entire Colonial Virginia Unit. This lesson is full of interactive activities, video clips, websites, pictures and more!
This SMARTboard usually takes me about 2 -3 weeks to teach. It is aligned perfectly to my interactive notebook on this topic that is also listed here on TPT. You can find it here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Virginia-Stud
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3rd - 8th
Economy Unit
This unit is intended and incorporated third grade Illinois Social Studies Standards as of 2017. However, can be used for grades 2-4. The product has more than 10 days worth of lesson plans. Each lesson has a clear description or expectations, pictures when needed!
DAY 1: Vocabulary
DAY 2: Needs and wants
DAY 3: Applying for a job writing and video activity
DAY 4: Make bank accounts- step by step directions with pictures
DAY 5: Budget
DAY 6: Scenarios of good money habits
DAY 7-10: Cl
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2nd - 5th
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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
Shark Tank Elementary Economics Project for Entrepreneurs -Christmas Elf Edition
Loosely inspired by the show, Shark Tank.... this is a great unit to use for late elementary and early middle school students to learn economic terms while working through the planning process of designing a good or service as an entrepreneur. This version though is ELF TANK! A Christmas-themed Shark Tank project, great for the holiday season! Santa and the elves are in need of a new toy or service ideas and the kids will love taking on the challenge!Unleash the magic of the holiday season where
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2nd - 7th
Project Based Learning- Careers
Looking for something to use across all subject areas to incorporate careers? This is the set for you!
The great thing about this set is that it can be used across numerous grade levels and with every subject area. Like my other project based learning sets, you can expect in-depth research and projects that will engage your students completely!
Included in this set:
project based learning explanation and ideas
website resource page
career vocabulary graphic organizer
careers on wheels section
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1st - 7th
Inventions Project Based Learning | Digital & Printable | Google
Who doesn't dream of creating your own invention and making tons of money on it? What better way to get students to use real-life skills such as reading, math, writing, speaking and listening skills than with this high-interest, engaging Create Your Own Invention project? With this project, students will get an opportunity to design their own invention and try to persuade their audience to invest in their product. This project-based learning activity is designed to supplement your practical livi
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2nd - 5th
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Toy Entrepreneur! An Engaging Simulation About Entrepreneurship.
Presented at NCSS Boston 2014.
I have been doing the Toy Entrepreneur project for years now. It is a true highlight of the year in our economics class.
This simulation is my ENTREPRENEURSHIP unit in my economics course. The great thing about this simulation is that it can be completely tailored to your needs. You can do the whole thing as a unit or just some of the lessons. It's up to you.
This is what Toy Entrepreneur is all about:
*There is a step by step lesson plan for each day of the
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5th - 12th
Future History!
Welcome to Future History! This is my favorite unit to teach. I have created a unit that allows students to review the basics of social studies, synthesize their learning into a new idea, and have fun with their imagination. Explore the connections between resources, climates, governments, economics, and more!
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4th - 8th
Project Based Learning - Entrepreneur Project - Financial Literacy
Entrepreneur - Project Based Learning
Students experienced the excitement of being entrepreneurs. They used their skills that they developed across the curriculum to make their ideas become reality. What began as brainstorming a product, quickly developed into small businesses requiring students to perform job functions to keep their company successful. Independently, students collected and wrote paychecks, developed products, researched materials and a customer base, ordered their mate
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1st - 5th
Economics Unit
This product includes everything you need to teach your economics unit!It includes:Anchor Charts- Anchor charts for the terms: producer, consumer, goods, services, supply & demand, scarcity, entrepreneur & budgetFlipbook- Students will create a flipbook with all of their vocabulary words and notes for easy referenceSlides-Project slides, have students write definitions in flipbook. Also discuss and encourage students to write/draw examples. Play informative videos from links.Scenario
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2nd - 5th
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4th/5th STEAM Activity:Money, Decimals Percentage, Interest Rate, Stock Market!
This activity is AMAZING!!! We used this in conjunction with our math unit on fractions and decimals and our literacy unit on Using Money and The Stock Exchange. It incorporates literally every discipline! **Editable!
----->Students are given a weekly budgeting scenario, where they must manage their account balance, write checks, and calculate withdrawals and deposits on a check register.
It is differentiated to accommodate higher-level learners. This accelerated activity requires multiplyi
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4th - 6th
Mini Society
Mini Society Unit. As seen on my social media video. This unit is so much fun!! Students learn about Economy and how to run a business. This unit is hands on and families love it every year! At the end of the unit, I host a "market day" and parents come in for a celebration of learning. Check out below what is included in this unit. -Directions on how to teach/run this unit including Market Day-Parent letter-Examples of Mini Society product ideas-Goods/services work sheets-wants/needs worksheets
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1st - 5th
Project Based Learning (PBL) | Create a Small Business / Financial Literacy
PBL Guide and Project Pack
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This PBL guide and project pack provides quick-tip information about Project-based learning, Create a Business project, writing reflection, and assessment rubric.
This project encourages students to create, plan, and run a small business for 2 weeks. In the planning stage, students determine which small business they would like to operate, the products or services they will offer, identify their target customer
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3rd - 5th
Goods & Services Inquiry Bundle - Production - Economics - IB PYP
Included is a 6 week, How We Organise Ourselves (PYP) inquiry plan and a lesson series of 32 activities in a workbook, which can be used with the unit or independently. Designed for students to inquire into economics, including creating and running their own small business. Subjects covered are: Social studies - production, economics, advertising, marketing, Mathematics - data handling, money, numeracyLanguage - oral, writing, reading and research skillsArts - Visual art and dramaDesign and eng
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2nd - 5th, Adult Education, Staff
Economics "Classroom town" dramatic play
This is a complete classroom town kit, that you can use during your Economics Unit or dramatic play. This is a great way to teach your students about consumers, producers, goods, and services. I decided to sit down and make what you need for each business. This was a hit at my school, we invited parents, other classrooms and staff. Included: 59 pgs - My classroom samples pictures, posters, sign in sheets, money, insurance cards, and grocery value cards.Doctors Office Post OfficeVet ClinicGrocer
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PreK - 5th
Project Based Learning - Engineering and Advertising- sleds
This Project Based Learning Set includes everything that you need to complete a PBL unit on sled engineering and advertising. We did this in five days, but you may want to lengthen or shorten your unit.
There is an outline page for each day and it includes the schedule that WE used, based on our regular academic school schedule. It also includes the visitors that spoke to our class so that you can see what we did to involve the community and the engineering career in our unit. We also incl
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2nd - 6th
Economics in Project Based Learning - a goods and services unit
This project revolves around social studies that typically apply to 2nd and 3rd grade economics. However, the unit is well-rounded and would work well as a PBL supplement in 4th grade and could be adapted to use in 5th-6th grade. Students partner up, create products, either a good or service, and bring to a marketplace. They create currency and trade it during the market, keeping a sales record and making sales receipts. They learn to differentiate between a good and service as well as a consume
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2nd - 6th
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Create a Zoo Project
This is a full project that doesn't require any additional resources or prep work, just download, print/upload, and go!Students are put in the position of being new Zoo owners! They have to select the animals, buildings, and even some of the employees in their zoo!Activities are inquiry and project based, letting students determine what is and isnt important to their zoo!This hits GA standards in classification, decimal addition/subtraction, writing to persuade, and economic vocabulary and under
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4th - 6th
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The Colonial Barter Game
A fun bartering game to introduce or finish off a unit on Colonial American and/or Bartering!
Students, working together in groups, have to barter with other colonists (student groups) to get the supplies they need. The difficulty of the game is completely adaptable by the teacher.
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- Teacher instructions on how to use
- Student group sheets with a list of items (and amount for each) needed as well as an explanation of WHY it is needed.
- Reference picture sheet of items and h
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3rd - 8th
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State Simulation: An Integrated Unit for Upper Elementary
Students will engage in an interactive simulation, in combination with other classrooms, at the same grade level, to learn local and state government, economics, and integrate reading, science, and math during a six week period. In addition to government, the students will engage in a study of economics. There will be elections held for state governor, senate members, and local mayors. Students will be given an assigned role within the simulation that they will participate with. Students will ke
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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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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