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Grades K-2
Funny Money or Phony Money?
Money is what we use to show what goods or services are worth. When you do work, you are paid...
Key Concepts: Markets and Prices
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Grades K-2
The Mitten
This is a folktale retold by Jan Brett about a little boy whose grandmother knits him a pair of snow...
Key Concepts: Scarcity
Grades K-2
No Extra Room on the Mayflower
The students will explore the ideas of scarcity and choices by exploring a virtual model of the Mayflower. They will...
Key Concepts: Choice, Scarcity
Grades K-2, 3-5
A Perfect Pet
The introduction to this lesson is a brief online story about a little girl’s visit to a pet store with...
Key Concepts: Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Goods and Services…
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8
What is Scarcity?
In this economics lesson, students will categorize and prioritize their wants to explain scarcity.
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Opportunity Cost, Scarcity
Grades K-2
We are Consumers and Producers
In this economics lesson, students learn how they and family members fulfill the roles of producers and consumers.
Key Concepts: Consumers, Goods and Services, Producers
Grades K-2, 3-5
What is Competition?
Students will understand what businesses are, that a marketplace exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services, and that...
Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Consumers, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…
Grades K-2, 3-5
Big Banks, Piggy Banks
When choosing a place to put their money, people consider how safe their money will be, how easy it is...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budgeting, Choice…
Grades K-2, 3-5
Clipping Coupons
In this lesson, students will calculate savings for different products when using coupons. They will also decide what factors will...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentive, Markets and Prices…
Grades K-2
Community Helpers are at Your Service
Students learn that Community Helpers provide a service for their neighborhood.
Key Concepts: Goods and Services, Roles of Government
Grades K-2, 3-5
Lean on Me -- We depend on each other!
The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate that the production of most goods can be broken down into a...
Key Concepts: Demand, Goods and Services, Specialization…
Grades K-2, 3-5
The ABCs of Saving
In this personal finance lesson, students will learn about short and long term goals in order to be a successful...
Key Concepts: Opportunity Cost, Saving
Grades K-2
We Can Earn Money (or) Working Hard for a Living
There are many ways for people to get money. One way most people get money is by earning it. This...
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…
Grades K-2, 3-5
A Pet For Beans from 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
After listening to a computer-read story, "Jack and the Beanstalk," the students will find out that beans were used as...
Key Concepts: Money, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
Grades K-2, 3-5
No Funny Money, Honey....I Want the Real Thing!
Do you know what funny money is? It's NOT the real thing! Find out how our government tries to make...
Key Concepts: Money
Grades K-2
This Little Piggybank Went to Market
Students will learn that work is the source of income and that banks are places in which people save and...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budgeting, Economic Institutions…
Grades K-2, 3-5
To Market To Market
This lesson will help students become good consumers and producers by taking turns buying and selling things in a classroom-created...
Key Concepts: Choice, Consumers, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…
Grades K-2, 3-5
The Little Red Hen
The Little Red Hen is a classic story for nearly all adults, and many children. Here it is retold and...
Key Concepts: Entrepreneurs, Goods and Services, Incentive
Grades K-2, 3-5
What Are Incentives?
Students will understand that incentives are used to encourage them to make good choices. After identifying incentives offered at home...
Key Concepts: Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentive
Grades K-2
Build Your Community
Students will learn about a variety of businesses and the service they provide to a community. They will build a...
Key Concepts: Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis
