Scarcity - Playful Economics | Lesson Demo
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Interactive Tool
Shanan Riegle, an award-winning teacher from Yorktown Elementary School in Indiana, demonstrates how to use play dough to teach the concept of scarcity to her 5th grade students using a lesson from Playful Economics by Dr. Harlan Day. Playful Economics is a collection of 15 hands-on lessons that use modeling clay to teach economic concepts from goods and services to GDP and inflation. For more information or to purchase this publication, please visit CEE's store.
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