Search
Use one or more of the pull-down menus to search for
economics and personal finance lesson materials you're interested in, or use our Google search page to find lessons.
Search Tip:
Most teachers will find the drop-down boxes to be the most useful way to
find a lesson because the results can be customized by concept, class, and
several other categories. Alternatively, you can use our Google search page to find a lesson if you know the name of the lesson you
want, for example, you are returning to review a lesson.
Your search resulted in 201 economics and personal finance lesson materials.
Welcome to the Zoo! In this two-day lesson you will use Dr. Seuss' If I Ran The Zoo book to introduce the economic concepts to your students. You will also get the chance to use actual zoo criteria to help a zoo "choose" new anima...
more »
Grades: 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will investigate the concept of total cost of ownership. They will brainstorm the costs of owning a dog or a cat. Students will calculate the total cost of ownership to help determine which might be the best pet for t...
more »
Grades: 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will identify positive and negative economic incentives used in their communities to encourage people to make CHOICES beneficial to the community. Students will recognize that not all incentives convince all people, s...
more »
Grades: 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will learn about competition in the market place. They will understand that competition takes place when there are many buyers and sellers of similar products. They will discuss how competition among sellers results ...
more »
Grades: 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this multiple intelligences lesson the students figure out why the United States imports some goods that we can grow right here!
more »
Grades: 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This lesson will help students become good consumers and producers by taking turns buying and selling things in a classroom-created market. Students will establish prices for items and observe what happens during the sale of ...
more »
Grades: K-2, 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will demonstrate understanding of the processes associated with banking by role- playing as customers, tellers, and guards.
more »
Grades: 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Why do things cost so much more now than they used to? Students will find out about inflation in the United States.
more »
Grades: 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Look up! Can you ever imagine standing on another planet and looking down at earth? We've been to the moon - now lets launch an expedition to Mars. Imagine all the preparation you will have to go through in order to have a sa...
more »
Grades: 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson about the EPA, students will find out that their government pays for goods and services by taxing people and companies.
more »
Grades: 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson, students hear a folk tale and participate in a simulation that helps them recognize problems with barter and benefits of monetary exchange.
more »
Grades: K-2, 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students role-play workers producing origami cups. They participate in two production rounds, one without training and one with training. Students
more »
Grades: K-2, 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This lesson explores how gross domestic product (GDP) is determined. The major components of GDP are described. Students create and compare GDP pie charts for the countries of Pepperonia and Anchovia.
more »
Grades: 3-5, 6-8
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students produce badges as rewards for the best economists in the class. Through this production activity, they learn how command and market economies answer the basic economic questions: What to produce? How to produce? For whom ...
more »
Grades: 3-5, 6-8
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Why do people work so hard? Why aren't you just assigned a job that you are interested in and get paid as much as the next guy? This lesson will show you why employers want the best workers that their money can buy!
more »
Grades: 3-5, 6-8
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Banks are important to Americans. We use banks to save money and earn interest, or borrow money and pay interest. This lesson introduces the concepts of banking to children.
more »
Grades: 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
In this lesson students will make a decision making chart and use it to help them in deciding which flavor of Jelly beans to buy.
more »
Grades: 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The United States takes a Census every 10 years. How does the country use those statistics?
more »
Grades: 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The Little Red Hen is a classic story for nearly all adults, and many children. Here it is retold and enhanced in order to provide a framework for illustrating and reviewing the concepts of productive resources and incentives...
more »
Grades: K-2, 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Students will understand that incentives are used to encourage them to make good choices. After identifying incentives offered at home and in school, the students will distinguish between positive and negative incentives.
more »
Grades: K-2, 3-5
|
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson«234567891011»
