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Kids Are Consumers Too
Students investigate a chosen product. They use television, radio, print, and internet sources to investigate how the product is advertised. Students create a market research survey to determine which brand is preferred by their peers...
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Count On It!
Learners practice counting money. In this consumer math lesson, students identify the various U.S. coins and group them in various ways to equal a dollar. Learners will use the money they collected for a donation towards a non-profit...
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Shopping the Sunday Circular
Pupils demonstrate an understanding of price-per-unit mathematics. In this computation lesson plan, learners accurately figure the unit price of grocery items. They create a chart and record the item, the price, the size and the cost per...
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What Did It Cost 100 Years Ago?
Students compare prices of good across the century in order to introduce the topic of inflation. They undertand the concepts of inflation and Consumer Price Index (CPI), use online calculators to figure the approximate cost of goods...
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The Great Cookie Company
Fourth graders implement real life application of money, problem solving, economics, and consumer awareness. In this three week economics unit, 4th graders operate a business, write checks, balance accounts, and market their product.
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Growing Money
Fourth graders sell plants. In this business lesson students propagate plants from cuttings. Students create a business to sell the plants they grow.
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Financial Fables: Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl
Cover two subjects with one instructional activity! First, dive into English language arts; read an eBook, answer comprehension questions, and complete a cause and effect chart about the financial fable, Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl....
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Estimating Prices
Learners practice making reasonable estimates. In this consumer math, students round purchase prices of items to estimate the total cost. Learners practice using metal computations to arrive at estimates.
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The Bakery - Word Problems
Students solve money word problem questions regarding buying items at the bakery.
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Clothing Store Word Problems
Students practice answering money word problems on shopping at the clothing store.
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Cha-Ching!
Young scholars play the Pinky's Create a Card game for practice. Students create a class store where they experiment in the roles as vendor and consumer. Young scholars use play money to buy and sell various products, while keeping track...
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Potato Ways
Students analyze the packaging process. In this consumer awareness instructional activity, students analyze the process of packaging a potato and identify positive and negative ways of packaging. Students study statistics on an overhead...
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Math for the Frontier
Students explore the concept of inflation. In this inflation instructional activity, students compile a list of necessities they would need to take with them if they were moving to a new state next month. Students compare their list...
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Let's Go Value Shopping
Students count, figure change, and find the value of saving in a classroom store.
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Meet Molly An American Girl
Students examine concepts of personal finance. In this personal finance lesson, students use Valerie Tripp's, Meet Molly, An American Girl, to learn about saving and spending after World War II. They compare financial decisions after...
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Take It To the Bank
Examine how the economics of a school store relate to real world economics. Elementary young scholars explore various websites, complete a Venn diagram, create a schedule of wages for the students, read the book "A Chair For My Mother"...
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Pacing a Gunther Chain
Students pace a Gunther Chain, a measurement used by foresters to determine distance and area. They discuss that pacing is individualized depending on age, gender, etc. They practice to find an average pace. Teams estimate, pace and...
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Cost Effective Buying
Students complete a worksheet that asks them to calculate the true energy cost of various appliances. They compare appliances with energy saving features, rebates and other economical incentives.
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How Electronics Come to Us: Distribution and Use
Students identify environmental challenges that can be solved throughout a product's life cycle. They experiment and examine how we can choose and use products in an environmentally responsible manner. Each student is also involved in...
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Mammoth Sunflower Problem
Students discuss the directions on a package of seeds. They open the package, count the seeds, and determine the planting requirements for the seeds.
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Potato: A Tale from the Great Depression
Students barter for goods within the class. In this economics lesson based on the Great Depression, the teacher introduces the lesson with a picture book, then students are allowed to barter with teacher supplied goods as they examine...
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To Market to Market
Fourth graders research a product and participate in an integrated simulation of a free market economy where students will create, buy and sell a good or service. In completing this activity, 4th graders understand the concepts and...