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8th grade economics resources $5-10
Stock Market Crash (1929) Simulation: Causes of the Great Depression
Bring history alive for your students! This is a one day stock market simulation that will help your students understand the major causes of the stock market crash of October 29th, 1929 while role playing and while working together! This lesson is an amazing way to start your unit on the Great Depression! This lesson provides students with a general understanding of how the stock market operates and how stock speculation works. This lesson will bring history alive for your students!This product
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7th - 11th
Also included in: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Presidency: Great Depression-World War II
Consumer Math & Financial Literacy - Credit Card Project (with Google Slides™)
You can purchase this product with other consumer math and personal finance activities and projects in a BUNDLE:Consumer Math and Financial Literacy Activities & Projects BUNDLEUpdated to also include a Google Classroom™ version in addition to the original print-friendly version! **************************************************************************************DOWNLOADED OVER 1,000 TIMES**************************************************************************************This is a credit
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5th - 12th
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The Great Depression: A Saving and Spending Game
Students work together in small groups to make decisions about how to save or spend their money during the Great Depression. They will see what it is like to have a well-paying job and then lose most of their money in the stock market crash of 1929. They will have to find a new job, a place to live (hobo camp or boxcar), and figure out how to provide for their family with very little.Students will have to subtract their bills from their total amount of money using a spending ledger (provided).
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4th - 8th
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Budgeting Activity: Monthly Budget Project and Worksheets for Middle School
If you are looking for a no-prep, yet detailed budgeting activity, look no further! In this budgeting activity for Google Drive, students will create a monthly budget. This monthly budget project features the elements of career, housing, transportation, monthly expenses, and more! This activity was designed to help with budgeting for middle school students, and was implemented in an 8th grade Social Studies class, but it could easily be incorporated in a variety of subjects and grade levels. Thi
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6th - 9th
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Touch Money Packet
Touch Money is a great way to teach your students how to count groups of coins! I use this with my special learners who benefit from the visuals of touch points. This packet includes:-Front & back touch money posters-Draw the touch points on the coins (4 pages)-Draw the line to front/back of the matching coin (6 pages)-Write the coin name/amount (4 pages)-Cut/paste counting groups of coins WITH touch points (15 pages)-Counting groups of coins WITH touch points (15 pages)-Cut/paste counting g
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K - 12th
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Also included in: Touch Money Bundle for Special Education
Understanding Your Pay Stub Bundle - Paycheck Lesson, Practice, & Scavenger Hunt
This lesson and activity bundle uses realistic pay stubs to teach students how to understand their paychecks. Topics include gross vs. net pay, deductions, income taxes, benefits, and more. This bundle includes a lesson complete with Google Slides, guided notes, and a practice worksheet, plus a scavenger hunt activity in both digital and paper versions! Lesson, practice, and scavenger hunt will take two to three 50-minute class periods.Resources Included:Understanding Your Pay Stub Lesson: Inc
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8th - 12th
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Great Depression ESCAPE ROOM: Dust Bowl, Roaring Twenties, Stock Market
The Great Depression Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about the Great Depression, stock market, Dust Bowl, the Roaring Twenties and FDR. This Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes. The codes include ciphers, Morse code, cryptograms and a final 4 digit code based on the decoders/clues.What’s Included?✏️ 4 Reading Passages✏️ 4 Puzzle Phrases to Decode✏️ 4 Decoders✏️ 4 Diffe
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: 20 US History ESCAPE ROOMS BUNDLE - Reading Comprehension
Teaching Supply and Demand - Candy and Coke Activity!
This is a great lesson to introduce Supply and Demand!I use this with my middle school students year after year. It is an engaging lesson using two things they love - candy and soda. By the end of this lesson they really have an understanding of the Laws of Supply and Demand and how they work. They experience it for themselves in this lesson. If you purchase this lesson, will you let me know how it goes for you. You are welcome to contact me at bmarkwald@usmk12.org.Have fun!
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Engaging Lessons For Teaching Economics!
Compare Types of Economic Systems 5-E Lesson | Intro to Economies | Microsoft
This lesson defines & explains the types of economic systems in place around the world. The activities are engaging for students & the guided, 5-E format is easy for you to use! Begin with a fun, “4 Pics, 1 Word” warm-up activity, then introduce key vocabulary. Students complete a fill-in chart comparing the 4 main types of economic systems - Traditional, Market, Command, Mixed. Check for understanding with a “Show What You Know” practice activity, “Big Ideas” summary & exit ticket q
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6th - 12th
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Classroom Economy System Fake Money Printable & Bank Data Sheets
What's included in this product?
-A bank data sheet (The bank data sheet will help your students can track how much money their earn and how much money they spend on classroom incentives).
-Classroom fake money printables for $1.00 bills, $5.00 bills, $10.00 bills, $20.00 bills, $50.00 bills, and $100.00 bills.
-Classroom economy tip sheet for getting started!
Would you like to create a classroom economy system? The objective of a class economy system is to reinforce positive classroom behav
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K - 12th
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Economics and History: Communism vs. Capitalism, the Rock, Paper, Scissors Game!
This highly interactive game gives students a hands-on, experiential understanding of the differences in between communism and capitalism. Students will learn more about the key components of communism, capitalism, and socialism.
Out of all of the activities that I do in my class, students probably have the most fun playing this game.
There is a reflection that follows the game, as well as a sheet that the students can fill out. After they have filled it out, allow for a discussion on the imp
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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SPACE QUEST | Needs vs Wants Cooperative Game
Are you looking for a fun way to help your personal finance students determine the difference between needs and wants? Space Quest provides a fun cooperative challenge, to help students from elementary to high school, figure out the difference between needs and wants. In this group activity, teams will be introduced to the scenario by a video informing them that they have been selected to join Space Quest, a team being tasked with determining if a newly discovered planet could sustain humanity.
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1st - 12th
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Also included in: Needs vs Wants & Budgeting Unit | BUNDLE
Shark Tank Business Plan Project for Fundraiser or Classroom Store
The popular TV show Shark Tank gives contestants the chance to share their business idea with a team of investors referred to as sharks. This project mimicks the TV show and makes a great end-of-the-year project or a project to raise funds for your class or school. Students come up with a project or service idea they can actually put into place. If you aren't using real money for this project, students could use this as part of the classroom management system. Students can spend the "money" they
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5th - 12th
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Cultural Diffusion Activity
This is a FUN, engaging in-class activity that helps students understand, relate to, and apply their knowledge of cultural diffusion.Students work together to analyze the McDonald's menu of their given country (India, Singapore, Israel, Japan, and Mexico) In addition to the menu of a given country, they are given informational text on the background of their country's religion and culture. They have to note differences, similarities, and make predictions as to WHY these differences occur and how
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5th - 9th
Intro to Credit Cards Lesson - Credit vs Debit, Interest, Credit Scores & More!
Topics include credit card vocabulary, advantages and disadvantages of credit cards, credit vs debit cards, applications, disclosures including Schumer Boxes, and credit scores!Complete one to two-day lesson includes Google Slides for easy instruction, guided notes for students, and five stations practice activities. Answer keys are included. During the Google Slides presentation, students will learn:Common Credit Card Vocabulary: Interest, Grace Period, Balance, APR, and moreAdvantages and Dis
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Credit Card Lessons and Activities Financial Literacy Unit Bundle
File Federal Taxes - 1040 Tax Worksheet & Profiles (Math,Social Studies,Economy)
Teach your students how to figure their taxes! This download includes the following: - Blank Classroom Federal Tax 1040 Form- 20 Profiles for students to choose from. Examples of profiles include Clark Kent, Mr. & Mrs. Incredible, President Obama, Beyonce and Jay-Z, Mike Wazowski, and more! - To save you time, I have included keys for each of the 20 profiles. - A blank profile page so that you can make more profiles to fit your class size. This project could serve as low as a 3rd grade cl
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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Student Loans and Financial Aid Unit Bundle
High school students will soon be faced with the realities of paying for higher education. Give them the tools they need to make educated decisions about their financial future. This product contains a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation, 2 graphic organizers (FREE), 2 internet research activities, a scenario-based activity, a write the room scavenger hunt and an article writing activity with a rubric. This lesson covers student loans and other financial aid options. Start with a PowerPoint Presen
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7th - 12th
Communism vs. Capitalism: Simulation Game
A fun activity for students, designed to make several points about how communist and capitalist systems work differently. Students will enjoy the process of learning the essential differences between the way that communism and capitalism work in the world. This download includes:*Teacher's Guide (2 pages)*Graphic organizers for the simulation (2 pages)*Open-ended Discussion or Reflection Questions (2 pages)*Powerpoint to use with game play. (13 slides)*Powerpoint notes (14 slides)UPDATE Feb. 2
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7th - 12th
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Stock Market Unit Plan
Two week unit!
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Have a discussion on how people can make their money grow. Introduce vocab for unit. Hand out Stock Market passage and answer questions about reading.
Day 2- 3
Vocab matching sheet quiz. Discuss dangers of investing in stocks. Hand out Danger in Stocks handout and answer questions.
Discuss stock symbols. Have students search symbols for 4 teacher chosen stocks and check progress of the stocks together across the week. Tell students they have $1000 to invest. They will
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3rd - 10th
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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
Intro to Budgeting - Financial Literacy Lesson and Practice Stations Activities
This personal finance budgeting lesson includes Google Slides, a guided notes worksheet, and 10 station activities with a recording worksheet. Students will be introduced to the basic concepts of budgeting and will learn to use a 50/30/20 budget strategy. Answer Keys included!While there are many methods for developing a budget, this lesson introduces students to the basic concepts of budgeting using a 50/30/20 strategy. This budgeting strategy recommends that 50% of income should be spent on
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8th - 12th
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Bank and Account Types - Learning Walk | Discovery Station Task Cards
Are you looking for a way to make learning about banking a bit more exciting for your students. I know I have struggled with making banks, credit unions, and the different types of accounts interactive and fun for the students in the past. This activity has given my students a way to learn that engages them and also shows them the kind of research they should be looking at before making any buying decisions, including about their financial institution. In this resource you get:13 printable stati
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: All Things Banking | Bundle
Intro to Economy and Economics 5-E Lesson featuring SpongeBob | Microsoft
This STUDENT-FAVORITE lesson introduces real-world economics with a fun cartoon case study. The activities are engaging for students & the guided, 5-E format is easy for you to use! Begin with a “This for That” warm-up to explore trade throughout history. Discuss key vocabulary terms while completing fill-in notes. Next, conduct a cartoon case study to examine economic concepts. Students love watching a SpongeBob episode in class; you will love that they are learning all about the economy! F
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Intro to Economy FUN 5-E Unit BUNDLE | Free Market Economics | Microsoft
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals -Digital notebook
Introduce your students to the UN Sustainable Development Goals with this engaging mini-unit! This mini-unit includes a digital notebook webquest that will guide students through the sustainable development goals adopted by the UN on September 25, 2015. This mini-unit is divided into three sections that can be completed over three days. In each section, students will explore the UN Sustainable Development Goal website and find answers to specific questions relating to each goal and its targets.
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5th - 12th
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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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