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Economics Common Core SL.2.1 resources
Economics Activities Unit | Project Based Learning | Financial Literacy
This is an entire UNIT for a Project Based Learning Unit on ECONOMICS and FINANCIAL LITERACY. It takes a teacher and their class, step by step throughout the entire Economics Curriculum. Don’t let planning PBL Units stress you out! This unit is all set for your entire planning. It will save you hours of your time.Some Lessons are DIGITALOVERVIEWEconomics For Kids helps students gain life skills in problem-solving, investigating, financial literacy and engages them in challenges. We start a clas
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2nd - 3rd
Also included in: Project Based Learning Curriculum | 2nd Grade PBL Activities
Primary Economics Unit: Wants, Needs, Goods and Services (Financial Literacy)
It is never too early for students to begin learning about economics. This primary economics unit guides students through topics such as the difference between wants & needs, goods & services, producers & consumers, choice, cost & benefit, and saving & budgeting. This resource has been updated to include both print and digital options to save you time and prep! Find everything you need in one place.Please click the preview button for more details!What's Included::: Wants &
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1st - 3rd
Producer or Consumer: An Economics Sorting Game for Primary Students
This will help your students understand one of the beginning concepts of economics: Consumers and Producers.This is a Social Studies sorting game to practice the vocabulary "consumer" and "producer." Children will sort the 16 task cards onto the apples that say "producer" or "consumer". It includes definitions of the two important words, suggestions, 16 task cards, and extra cards so you can make your own.The most important part of this activity is encouraging conversations that help deepen th
Natural Resource to Finished Product | Farm to Table Milk
Do your students ever wonder how we get milk from the cow to the carton or the table? This farm to table resource will give you teaching information and visuals to make the explanation and process easier to grasp. It’s an easy prep resource and a big teacher timer saver. Here’s what is included:⭐ 9 Picture Cards with Color or Black Ink Options to Trace Milk from the Cow to the Carton⭐ 6 Picture Cards with Color or Black Ink Options of Products Made from Milk⭐ 21 Labels and 2 Sorting Labels⭐ Work
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1st - 2nd
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Natural Resource to Finished Product | Farm to Table Oranges
Do your students ever wonder how we get orange juice on our table for breakfast? This farm to table resource will give you teaching information and visuals to make the explanation and process easier to grasp. It’s an easy prep resource and a big teacher timer-saver. Here’s what is included:⭐ 16 Picture Cards with Color or Black Ink Options to Trace Commercial and Homemade Juice⭐ 17 Labels Including 3 Specialized Vocabulary Word Cards⭐ Worksheet-Seeds to Commercial Orange Juice⭐ Worksheet-How to
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2nd - 3rd
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Economics Unit | Financial Literacy | Project Based Learning Economics Bundle
This is an entire ECONOMICS BUNDLE for a Project Based Learning Unit on ECONOMICS and FINANCIAL LITERACY. It takes a teacher and their class, step by step throughout the entire Economics Curriculum. Don’t let planning PBL Units stress you out! This unit is all set for your entire planning. It will save you hours of your time.Some Lessons are DIGITALThis is the BUNDLED Version and includes all the same activities as the ORIGINAL Unit. OVERVIEWEconomics For Kids helps students gain life skills in
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2nd - 3rd
Spending and Saving and Earning Money Financial Literacy Economic BUNDLE
This Primary Economic Bundle is great for introducing your kindergarteners and 1st grade students to the economic concepts of personal finance. Distinguishing between real world situations of saving and spending and earning at a young age lays a good economic foundation for your student's financial educationThis Bundle has everything you need to dive into Primary Economics. Your kids will have fun while becoming familiar with all important Financial Literacy concepts. The 4 included products in
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K - 1st
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Project Based Learning Curriculum | 2nd Grade PBL Activities
In this Project Based Learning Science and Social Studies Bundle you will have everything you need to teach PBL this year! Creating these units are time consuming for any teacher and this bundle will save you hours and hours of work, planning and your time. We take the boring and make PBL fun and easy to teach. It includes a Plant Unit, Economics and Financial Literacy Unit, Habitats and Ecosystem Unit, an Iceberg Unit and more. These are all the top selling 2nd grade PBL units that we have.Some
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Goods and Services Economics Activities BUNDLE First Grade
Are you looking for primary lessons to get your kids excited about Goods and Services? This resource is for you! These fun interactive digital and print activities were created to engage your students in their community and help them understand the economics concepts of Goods and Services as part of their financial literacy.This BUNDLE contains primary projects and games that you can during Social Studies time. You can use these activities whole group, or during work stations. There are google
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1st - 2nd
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Natural Resource to Finished Product | Farm to Table Chocolate
Do your primary grade students ever wonder how we get chocolate from the tree to the package or their table? This farm to table resource will give you teaching information and visuals to make the explanation and process easier to grasp. It’s an easy prep resource and a big teacher timer saver. This resource is perfect for correlation with an economic unit, a book study with chocolate as an influence, or add to a biography unit. Here’s what is included: ⭐ 13 Picture Cards with Color or Black Ink
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1st - 3rd
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Making Good Choices and Opportunity Cost Whole Class Game
Are you looking for a fun way to dive opportunity cost? Your students can play this game again and again, each time focusing on a different economic concept: Wants and Needs, Supply and Demand or Opportunity Cost.Here's what you'll get:✅ Large whole group game board✅ 14 pages of photo cards (color & B/W)✅ 2 choices of writing response sheets✅ Small group game board✅ 6 pages cut and paste clip art cards✅ Rules page for kids✅ Lesson Plans✅ Teacher notes for each game versionGreat for:
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K - 2nd
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Goods and Services Interactive Google Slides First Grade
Are you introducing Goods and Services? This 80 slide interactive Google Slides presentation is aligned with the HGSS standards for 1st grade. It will help your students understand and distinguish the difference between Goods and Services. This product can be used whole group, or individually loaded onto student iPads.Here's what you'll get:✅ Definitions for good and for service✅ ASL signs✅ 40 community examples✅ self-correcting slides✅ 80 slides in totalGreat for:❤️ introduction to Goods
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Goods and Services Economics Activities BUNDLE First Grade
November Portfolio Highlights: 2nd Grade Student Progress & Enriching Activities
This 'Second Grade Portfolio of Progress' for November is the ideal resource to capture and showcase your students' learning and development during the autumn month. With carefully designed activities spanning various subjects, this portfolio is a valuable asset for parent-teacher conferences, open-house exhibitions, and fall-themed activities. Inside, you'll discover an array of activities, including engaging writing prompts for goal setting, a hands-on economics social studies lesson, and a ma
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2nd
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Global Economics Game
Do you need to teach your students about why countries trade goods with each other in an easy a fun way? Do your students need practice collaborating to achieve a common goal? This is my favorite game to use each year during my economics unit because it takes the abstract idea of global economics and translates it to a topic that is both familiar and entertaining: a trading card game.
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1st - 3rd
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Social Studies Workshop: A Resource Guide for Second-Grade Teachers eBook
This eBook provides you with EVERYTHING you need to implement social studies into your classroom!
There are 14 mini-lessons (10-15 minutes long) followed by 4 stations that the students rotate through.
In about 15 minutes per day, you can implement social studies into your classroom! There are constructivist activities, worksheets, videos, formative assessments, summative assessments, field trips, project-based learning, and more.
Also, EVERY LESSON IS EMBEDDED WITH ELA AND MATH STANDARDS THAT
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2nd
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The Micro Marketplace Curriculum
Micro Marketplace provides students with a basic understanding of economics. Students learn about business communities, goods and services, sticking to a budget, and making a profit. They will work in partners or small groups to create a business and design products that they will actually sell at a classroom marketplace. This Project Based Learning unit easily ties into ELA, Math, Art, and Technology. For example, students will write a persuasive sales pitch to entice customers to shop at t
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1st - 6th
Family Needs vs Wants Game K - 1st Grade - 2nd Grade
Are you looking for Needs vs Wants lessons? This Game will helps students distinguish the difference between wants and needs. It will also illustrates how scarcity impacts the choices families make. It highlights resources like time, money and supplies.Here's what you'll get:✅ 3 levels of the game:kindergarten works as a whole group1st grade sits in small groups but let by teacher2nd grade works in small groups✅ 2 choices of game boards✅ 2 choices of recording sheets✅ money sheet to run off
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Needs and Wants & Scarcity Kindergarten & 1st Grade BUNDLE
Why People Work: HMH Neighborhoods and Communities
This is a workbook for students who are actively participating in the Why People Work Unit from the HMH Social Studies series. Students will be asked to transfer the knowledge they learned from the reading in a variety of ways. This packet has an activity for each page of the social studies booklet. Students will compare and contrast, investigate their own lunch box, create their own nation and more!This is an updated version of one I previously created on this site. This version has slight chan
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2nd
Needs and Wants Packet
This packet is a resource for helping students learn about needs and wants. It is an interactive resource that allows students to think about the kinds of things that we need in order to survive vs things that we want to have to simply enjoy. I love the conversation that arises when discussing questionable things such as a car. Includes:There are several different resources included in the packet. There is a Needs and Wants poster, 2 different types of Needs and Wants pocket chart headings, 18 l
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1st - 2nd
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An Introduction to Economics
36 pages including a scripted lesson plan and interactive class activities and demonstrations to introduce students to the field of Economics in a very hands-on, interactive way that children can relate to. Welcome to the world of MatterMania! I hope you enjoy my lesson plans for fun, interactive, and stimulating science classes. My lessons encourage the STEM fundamentals: becoming critical thinkers and effective problem solvers through real world examples and project based learning. In part
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2nd - 5th
HMH Why People Work
This is a workbook for students who are actively participating in the Why We Work Unit from HMH Social Studies. Students will be asked to transfer the knowledge they learned in a variety of ways. They will compare and contrast, investigate their own lunch box, create their own nation and more!
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2nd
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Goods and Services Activities Pocket Chart Sort First Grade
Are you looking for engaging Goods and Services activities? These cards will help your primary students understand the difference between goods and services in a fun way. They can be used during whole or small group during your Social Studies Economic Unit. This resource is HGSS aligned for 1st grade.Here's what you'll get:✅ 20 goods cards (20 color + 20 b/w)--real life photos✅ 20 services cards (20 color + 20 b/w)--real life photos✅ definition cards✅ pocket chart headers✅ 2 response shee
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Goods and Services Economics Activities BUNDLE First Grade
Job Responsibility Puzzle
The new HGSS standards link responsibilities to careers. This 53 page resource helps your students recognize, analyze and evaluate the responsibilities that go along with different career choices. Included is an activity for common job responsibilities, even being a student. Job Responsibility Puzzle:50 color puzzle pieces50 black and white puzzle piecespuzzle response sheetdetailed lesson plan10 different professionsI am really in create mode right now, so follow me and get notified when I uplo
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1st - 2nd
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How does the government spend money?
This Activinspire flipchart is a great engagement activity for how the government spends money. It begins by allowing the children to share how they spend money and compare it to their "predictions" of what they think the government spends money on. It goes through pages of examples, as well as shares a practical example of how the government taxes people.
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1st - 4th
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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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