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Introducing the Classroom Economy
Students discuss the definition of economics and study how current and historic societies have had economic systems. They determine necessary classroom jobs and attach ddaily or weekly salaries to those positions. Students are introduced...
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Just Look at Our Shoes
Students complete cross-curricular activities using a shoe theme. In this cross-curricular lesson, students explore various systems, examine open and closed systems, and examine product life cycles.
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Money Vocabulary
Explore the monetary system by completing worksheets in class. Learners will identify the monetary units of England and collaborate in groups to solve money word problems. They also identify several money-related vocabulary terms before...
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Capital for Cookies
Fourth graders find the meaning for capital, land, labor and enterprise and relate them to economics of a place. In this economics instructional activity, 4th graders form a company to make an agricultural product and look for the...
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Cooking Up Something Good
Students compare and convert units of measurement within the United States customary system and within the metric system by baking cookies. Students discuss how to double the cookie recipe, how to make only half of the recipe, and how to...
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Economic Activity and Markets
Students identify and interpret that economic activity involves making choices in the face of scarcity, therefore making choices involves a cost. They also identify that individuals interact in markets by inducing one another, through...
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Monetary Policy
Students develop an understanding of monetary policy. In this monetary policy lesson plan, students define economic indicators and specify the economic conditions they reflect. Students explain the three functions of the system and play...
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Finance and Responsible Lending
Students learn the characteristics of economic systems through problem solving, communication and representation. In this financial lending lesson, students use math to solve problems dealing with the economy today, to work with their...
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Financial Plans
Students create an economic system based on responsibility and caring. In this economics and character lesson, students receive Character Currency and practice using the money for a good cause. Students brainstorm charities they would...
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SOS: Save Our Ski Slopes
Students defend downhill skiing as an Olympic Games event by creating a presentation that graphically proves the economic impact and popularity of this event.
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The Federal Reserve
Young scholars explore the role of government in the economy market. For this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are...
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Counting Coins
Second graders explore the American monetary system by utilizing different denominations. In this currency lesson, 2nd graders participate in a die rolling activity in which they collect coins based on the rolled number. Students add...
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Less Than Zero
Perry the penguin wants to buy a new scooter, but he doesn't have any funds! Walk your kids through the short book Less Than Zero, and have them track his borrowing, spending, and saving on a line graph while you read. Pupils will learn...
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How much money can you earn?
Fifth graders survey how to manage money and the importance of it. Students summarize that each day they have the opportunity to earn or lose money. Students provides many situations to present ways of paying bills and money management.
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Undercurrents Of Currency
Young scholars investigate the currencies used by different countries, and explore the principles of currency trading by exchanging currencies at current market rates. They, in groups, access websites which give them current rates.
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Introduction to Economics
Learners develop the concept of supply and demand. In this economics lesson plan, students listen to a lecture and take notes on supply and demand. Learners create a coherent set of notes about supply and demand.
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Global Warming
A series of independent learning activities teaches learners about global warming as it relates to economics and industrialization. The culminating project requires them to create a multimedia presentation identifying the problems,...
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To the North: A Black Family Leaves Arkansas to Find Work in Michigan
Upper elementary and middle school scholars study the economic factors that caused so many Arkansans to migrate to different parts of the country looking for work. Use this history lesson plan to help your charges gain a better...
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Donut Dinero
Students set up a classroom currency exchange and explore the idea of bartering to get what they want. They create a monetary unit that is based on fractions and multiples of a standard unit, and compare this system to the U.S. monetary...
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Saving Strawberry Farm
Students explore U.S. History by analyzing the Great Depression. In this economic instability lesson plan, students read fictitious accounts of a farm dealing with the loss of a Strawberry Farm and discuss the reasons behind the loss....
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The Entrepreneur's Game
Twelfth graders explore the basic principles of the US free enterprise system. They examine the basic principles of the US free enterprise system including profit motive, voluntary exchange, private property rights, and competition.
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Turning Brain Drain into Brain Gain
Pupils investigate the PACED system as it relates to making good decisions. In this economics lesson, students define brain drain and its effect on the community. They use the PACED idea to come up with a solution to the problem.
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Money and Banking
Students explore the role of government in the economy market. For this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are trying to...
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Why We Trade: Exchanging Goods and Services
Students conduct simple bartering and trading activities and consider how product value can be altered by the market.