Sign in with Google 
Grades 3-5
The Write Stuff
Right now you are probably using a pencil to do your school work. But do you know where the pencil...
Key Concepts: Goods and Services
Resources for
Resources for
All Resources (by date)
947 of Total Resources
Grades 3-5
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Frontier Town
Laura Ingalls Wilder made a sketch of De Smet, South Dakota in the 1880's. This lesson will discuss the markets...
Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Consumers, Goods and Services…
Grades 6-8
Bringing the Market to the Farm
Students learn how community supported agriculture (CSAs) is changing the relationship between the farmer and the consumer.
Key Concepts: Choice, Consumers, Goods and Services…
Grades 3-5
How Much is that Doggy?
Students will investigate the concept of total cost of ownership. They will brainstorm the costs of owning a dog or...
Key Concepts: Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis
Grades 3-5
Economic Incentives in Our Community
Students will identify positive and negative economic incentives used in their communities to encourage people to make CHOICES beneficial to...
Key Concepts: Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentive
Grades 6-8
Fill 'er up, Please
Americans drive more than 2.6 trillion miles per year, that's 14,000 round trips to the sun! And for the most...
Key Concepts: Choice, Consumers, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…
Grades 3-5
Banks, Bankers, Banking
Students will demonstrate understanding of the processes associated with banking by role- playing as customers, tellers, and guards.
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Demand, Economic Institutions…
Grades 3-5
When Gas was a Quarter!
Why do things cost so much more now than they used to? Students will find out about inflation in the...
Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment, Fiscal Policy
Grades 3-5
Destination: Mars
Look up! Can you ever imagine standing on another planet and looking down at earth? We've been to the moon...
Key Concepts: Choice, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Goods and Services…
Grades 9-12
Show Me the Money!
Students will investigate the unforeseen costs of car loans and/or house loans. They will then evaluate the economics of decision...
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Choice, Consumers…
Grades 3-5
Clean Land - Thanks to US!
In this lesson about the EPA, students will find out that their government pays for goods and services by taxing...
Key Concepts: Market Structures, Roles of Government
Grades 6-8, 9-12
One is Silver and the Other's Gold
Students learn about the money supply and that it can affect the value of money. Students investigate this in the...
Key Concepts: Economic Institutions, Fiscal Policy, Markets and Prices…
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Why Work Now?
Why do people work so hard? Why aren't you just assigned a job that you are interested in and get...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Division of Labor/Specialization, Goods and Services
Grades 9-12
How is Our Economy Doing?
Students learn the meaning and measurement of six important economic indicators and use the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank National...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Credit, Employment and Unemployment…
Grades 9-12
Fiscal and Monetary Policy Process and Interactive Quiz
Students follow each step of fiscal and monetary policy processes, to see the logic of how these tools are used...
Key Concepts: Aggregate Demand, Demand, Economic Institutions…
Grades 3-5
Making Sense of the Census
The United States takes a Census every 10 years. How does the country use those statistics?
Key Concepts: Roles of Government
