Money Movers: Engaging Economics for K- 3: Using Manipulatives and Puzzles to Teach Primary Economic Concepts

Time: 60 mins,

Presenter: Lynne Stover, John Kruggel

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Objective Standards Summary Description Resources

Objective

Teachers will be able to:

Explore featured lessons and learn how to implement them for classroom and virtual instruction.
Gain access to resources with instructions on how to reproduce and apply game ideas.

Standards

State Standards

Concepts

Consumers, Producers, Productive Resources

This video is available to view for EconEdLink members only.

In this economics webinar, discover using manipulatives, puzzles and classroom-friendly competitions to teach concepts.

Description

Teachers will gain access to classroom tested activities using manipulatives, puzzles and classroom-friendly competitions to help teach K-3 economic concepts. These activities are designed to be used either as stand-alone lessons, or as a comprehensive unit to teach all of your economic content

We will review basic economic concepts such as complements and substitutes, resources/factors of production, and producers and consumers.

Resources

Subjects:

Economics

Grades K-2, 3-5

Teach Specialization using Sloth and Squirrel in a Pickle

In this economics lesson, students participate in hands-on activities that reinforces the concepts of specialists/entrepreneurs, workers, capital resources, and products.

Key Concepts: Entrepreneurship, Productive Resources, Specialization

30 mins

Lesson

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