Holiday Economics Christmas Project Based Learning PBL Wants Needs Goods Service

Looking for a fun way to teach your economics unit to your students? This Christmas project based learning unit is a fun way to embrace the holiday craziness & turn your classroom into a North Pole workshop! In this PBL unit, your students will learn about wants and needs, goods and services, producers and consumers, and so much more!

⭐The overall objective of this unit is to turn your students into entrepreneurs and your classroom into a North Pole workshop!⭐

1. You will teach various social studies concepts and will guide students into developing businesses in teams. (The businesses are holiday crafts! ANY you choose!)
2. Students will earn money from you each day based on their productivity level.
3. On the final day of the unit, all the 'goods' (crafts) created will be for sale! Students will first have to pay taxes, then will get to shop with their remaining earnings. The items created in your classroom will be great gifts students can “buy” to give to their family members for the holidays.

Social Studies Topics Covered Include:

• Wants vs. Needs
• Goods vs. Services
• Producers vs. Consumers
• Businesses in our communities
• Supply and Demand
• The role of banks
• Taxes

⚠️Adapt the ideas presented in this unit for your individual classroom. *Not all students celebrate Christmas, so feel free to adapt it for your class any way you see fit.* The posters come with AND without a holiday-themed border so you can use this unit ANY time of year! ⚠️

⭐Updated to include different options (lower and upper grades) for the end end-of-unit of unit assessment.⭐

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐My students had such a fantastic time with this! They even remembered it at the end of the year, saying it was one of their favorite things in second grade!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐This was amazing and the kids had a blast making their own business and products as well as shopping at the other stores.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐This resource was exactly what I was looking for! I wanted something for my students that would teach them about producers, consumers, goods, and services. This nailed it! It was awesome watching them learn about the different topics, but then putting them into perspective by being producers and consumers. It was also awesome to give them the opportunity to shop for some Christmas gifts for family members!

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❄️⭐Are you looking for more Christmas resources?⭐❄️

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• Holiday Economics
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