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Learners are given advice on how they can earn extra money by becoming an entrepreneur. After investigating several web pages that offer examples of what other people their age have done to earn money, students identify three mone...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Ancient Hawaii was ruled by chiefs, who were responsible for the well-being of their people and for managing the islands' resources. The chiefs divided the islands into land districts shaped like pie slices called Ahupua'a (ah-who...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson, students will calculate savings for different products when using coupons. They will also decide what factors will influence the choices they make when choosing products.
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students make construction paper cutouts of businesses and structures and create a community map bulletin board. Students analyze the goods and services available in their community to determine that some are privately produced a...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate that the production of most goods can be broken down into a number of specific tasks (division of labor), with each of these tasks assigned to specific workers (specialization.)
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
George Washington Carver, a great scientist, changed the economy of the South with his agricultural knowledge. This lesson will investigate how the lowly peanut kept the cotton farmers from losing everything.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
We save money to get things we can’t afford to buy now. Saving for the future requires patience but it can be worth it when we get what we want the most. Successful savings depends on three elements which are presented to st...
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will find out what savings are and will be introduced to U.S. Savings Bonds.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This lesson will take students through the series of tax acts that were enacted by the British government and disputed by the original 13 colonies of America prior to the American Revolution. Students will discuss the concept ...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Money doesn’t grow on trees. This lesson introduces students to four ways people get money—they find it, win it, receive it as a gift or earn it. Finding, winning and receiving money often depend on chance and luck. Mo...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Upon completion of this lesson students will: identify examples of productive resources; categorize productive resources as human resources, capital resources, and natural resources; explain that an entrepreneur is a special t...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will learn that people respond predictably to positive incentives (rewards) and negative incentives (penalties). They will identify incentives in their daily lives at home and school. Students will discuss which ince...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Think about a difficult decision you have had to make. After you decided did it work out? Why or why not? Why do you think decisions and choices are hard to make? We make personal decisions and we make decisions as groups. Th...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
After listening to a computer-read story, "Jack and the Beanstalk," the students will find out that beans were used as an exchange for Jack's cow. Jack traded his pet cow for an old man's magic beans. Were they both ...
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students explore the concept of interest by means of two activities. The first, a simple activity with jellybeans, introduces the concept of interest accruement, and the second, a practical, "real world" activity, re...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
One of the best sounds and smells is fresh popcorn! At the movies, at the fair, or at home, everyone likes to munch on popcorn. What is your favorite brand? Is the most expensive the best? You will conduct a taste test to find...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Do you know what funny money is? It's NOT the real thing! Find out how our government tries to make our money hard to copy in this lesson about real and fake money.
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Right now you are probably using a pencil to do your school work. But do you know where the pencil came from, or how it is made? Did you know that the Star Spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key was first written in pen...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson, students will identify different expenses in the US budget and will decide on the order of importance for different expenses.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Laura Ingalls Wilder made a sketch of De Smet, South Dakota in the 1880's. This lesson will discuss the markets in De Smet and competition.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
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