Teaching economics

What are the important components of a financial literacy program for elementary students? Check out five key parts of a primary economics program for kids. Understand wants and needs, goods, and services, budgeting, saving and more for elementary grade kids.

Your economics lessons should not be boring. There are SO MANY fun ways to make it engaging and hands-on for students, as well as teach critical vocabulary.

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Introduce your students to the basic economic concepts of money, wants/ needs, goods/ services, consumers/ producers, and supply/ demand. 5 days of lesson plans and extension activities are included.

It can be! When you give students the opportunity to make money, spend money create a business, sell their products and buy from other students. Then its fun!

Your economics lessons should not be boring. There are SO MANY fun ways to make it engaging and hands-on for students, as well as teach critical vocabulary.

What are Economies of Scale? Learn more with these simple, visual, stress-saving financial tips from Napkin Finance .

A fantastic mentor text for economics - Dragons are producers, and fairy tale characters are the consumers. They order some interesting pizzas!

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{Download FREEBIE pack here.} Economics is my absolute FAVORITE social studies unit to teach. There are so many hands-on activities to do with students and they are so eager to earn and spend money! One of my favorite activities is to end with our "Madden's Marketplace." This is a chance for students to put into action all of the things they have learned about being producers and consumers. To begin with, I send home a letter asking students to create paper goods. Why paper? It's something…