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Lesson: Lemon Squeeze - The Lemonade Stand
NOT your Grandma's Lemonade Stand
After a review of elementary economic concepts, students will apply their understanding by playing an online computer game, Lemonade Stand. This game has the students competing against themselves and others to earn the biggest profit in 25 days time (approximately 15 minutes computer time). "Daily" economic advice helps students find out where they fail in understanding the demand and supply sides of economics. Fun!
Economic Spotter: Supply and Demand at the Gold Rush
During the Gold Rush, people paid exorbitant prices for ordinary objects. Why? Because of the laws of supply and demand, that's why! In the lesson, students will see how these laws fit into this great historical time.
Did You Get the Message?
Advertising is the primary tool used by businesses to tell consumers about the goods and services they sell in the marketplace. Businesses also use advertising to try to convince consumers to buy what they are selling. Advertisements do this by pointing out how consumers will benefit if they buy a product. These benefits are called incentives. In this lesson, these two basic functions of advertising are introduced. Various techniques used to achieve these objectives are also explained. During the assessment activity, students view television commercials directed at them. They identify the various advertising techniques used to grab their attention and convince them to buy.
Related Publications
The following lessons come from the Council for Economic Education's library of publications. Clicking the publication title or image will take you to the Council for Economic Education Store for more detailed information.
Playful Economics
Designed primarily for elementary and middle school students, each of the 15 lessons in this guide introduces an economics concept through activities with modeling clay.
6 out of 17 lessons from this publication relate to this EconEdLink lesson.
Energy, Economics, and the Environment: Case Studies and Teaching Activities for Elementary School
This publication helps elementary students analyze energy and environment issues from an economics perspective.
4 out of 10 lessons from this publication relate to this EconEdLink lesson.
Teaching Economics Using Children's Literature
This interdisciplinary curriculum guide helps teachers introduce their students to economics using popular children's stories.
4 out of 29 lessons from this publication relate to this EconEdLink lesson.