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In this interactive tool, students will examine incentives at their home and at their school, decide if they are positive or negative incentives, then choose the ones that most influence them.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This drag-and-drop activity gives students the chance to decide if various items represent goods or services. There are four parts to this activity representing the four seasons. This interactive tool can be used to supplement Les...
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
In this lesson, students will learn about choices and opportunity costs that occur every day. While this lesson will go on throughout the day, the actual lesson is short.
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Competition provides benefits for consumers. First, more competition means consumers have more choices of goods and services. Second, when more firms are offering goods and services, competition often leads to lower prices.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students visit the FED101 web site to learn about the structure of the Federal Reserve. They recognize that there are 12 Federal Reserve districts. The students use the GeoFRED web tool to identify those districts and use a map fr...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students participate in a simulation to learn about choices, alternatives, opportunity cost and human capital. They learn the PACED decision-making model, apply the model and recognize that learning the model is an investment in t...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students make a choice between a cookie and an ice cream cone and state the opportunity cost of their decisions. They then listen to the story, Something from Nothing, and identify all the items Grandpa makes his grandson Joseph, ...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students learn about scarcity, alternatives, choices and opportunity costs by reading So Few of Me. The class participates in an activity to help Perdita figure out her morning schedule at summer camp. The students identify Perdit...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
In this lesson, students learn that saving is essential to economic well-being, especially in times of extreme economic downturn. They read Saving Strawberry Farm, a story about a Depression-era family attempting to save a neighbo...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students learn about opportunity cost, saving, savings goals and a savings plan by reading The Pickle Patch Bathtub. Students will develop savings plans that lead to their own savings goals.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
In this lesson, students learn about saving, savings goals, interest, borrowing and
opportunity cost by reading Less Than Zero by Stuart J. Murphy. Students use a number line
and a line graph to track spending and borrowing in t...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students listen to the book The Goat in the Rug, about a Navajo weaver named Glenmae
who uses mohair from her goat Geraldine and a number of resources and intermediate
goods to make a traditional Navajo rug. The students are pla...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
In this lesson, students listen to the book Earth Day—Hooray! They learn how incentives
change people’s behavior. The students learn how Luke, Carly, and Ryan, characters
in the book, collect cans to sell to the recycling center...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students listen to a story and answer questions about lending in Bangladesh. They complete a diagram that shows the impact of lending on a community. Working as a class, they compare the similarities and differences between banks ...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
In this lesson, students listen to a story and answer questions about a family in
Central or South America that barters to get the ingredients for chicken sancocho, a
kind of stew. The students complete sentences that record the...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson - children\'s literature
Students observe the teacher produce a paper taco and produce their own paper tacos
following the process demonstrated by the teacher. Students learn about the productive
resources—human resources, natural resources, and capit...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson - children\'s literature
After reading and discussing a story about a family during the Great Depression,
students differentiate between goods, services, barter, and money. Students are led
through several rounds of a barter activity that incorporates m...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson - children's literature
Students listen to a story written in rhyme about a bunny that has a lot of money in
her piggy bank. Students distinguish between spending and saving and goods and
services. They play a matching game to review the content of the...
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson - children's literature
Students take a close look at nickels and quarters commemorating many of the proudest moments in our country and in the seven states that make up the Federal Reserve\'s Eighth District.
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: Activities
A cowboy rides into a ghost town and decides that it needs to be rebuilt. Students will select the necessary things that a town needs in order for it to function and grow.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
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