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5th grade economics activities

Preview of Consumer Math & Financial Literacy - Credit Card Project (with Google Slides™)

Consumer Math & Financial Literacy - Credit Card Project (with Google Slides™)

You can purchase this product with other consumer math and personal finance activities and projects in a BUNDLE:Consumer Math and Financial Literacy Activities & Projects BUNDLEUpdated to also include a Google Classroom™ version in addition to the original print-friendly version! **************************************************************************************DOWNLOADED OVER 1,000 TIMES**************************************************************************************This is a credit
Preview of Game of Life- budget simulation

Game of Life- budget simulation

In just one class period, your students will not only understand the importance of creating and sticking to a budget, but also practice creating one!- Students are randomly given a "career card" with correlating annual salary and average student loan debt, if applicable. - They will then use a chart to determine how much of their salary will be taken out in the form of federal tax withholding, state tax withholding, social security, and medicare. - They'll then be given a set of choice cards (
Preview of Market Day: Economics Project for Big Kids, Budget, Unit

Market Day: Economics Project for Big Kids, Budget, Unit

Created by
SSSTeaching
This complete activity comes with all the resources needed to host a fantastic Market Day experience for your students. They will dive deep into learning about how a business works and many different aspects that go into a business. This product is great for upper elementary classroom and combines math, social studies, and creativity for the ultimate learning experience! Includes: *family letter*printables for solo vs. partner business, location advantages, * budget pages*product development p
Preview of The Great Depression: A Saving and Spending Game

The Great Depression: A Saving and Spending Game

Students work together in small groups to make decisions about how to save or spend their money during the Great Depression. They will see what it is like to have a well-paying job and then lose most of their money in the stock market crash of 1929. They will have to find a new job, a place to live (hobo camp or boxcar), and figure out how to provide for their family with very little.Students will have to subtract their bills from their total amount of money using a spending ledger (provided).
Preview of Social Studies Interactive Notebook

Social Studies Interactive Notebook

Created by
Brain Wrinkles
Interactive Notebooks are all the rage in Language Arts and Math classrooms. (And rightfully so, they're awesome!). It's time we bring them to Social Studies! This kit will help you jazz up some of your geography/history/government/economics lessons and make them engaging and FUN! The 100+ activities and printables in this kit are perfect for the "Reflection" side of the INB. They are super easy to incorporate into any lesson plan. They can easily be used in most grade levels and topics of study
Preview of Economics Comprehension Passages

Economics Comprehension Passages

Learn all about economics with this resource that includes close reading, an interactive notebook and comprehension passages. This economics resource includes a total of 9 passages for students to gain a deeper understanding of economics and common economics terms.Includes both a printable version and a digital version in Google Slides!The first 3 informational passages review and define economic terms and ideas. Each of the 3 passages has an accompanying interactive notebook template for note
Preview of Holiday Economics Christmas Project Based Learning PBL Wants Needs Goods Service

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!⭐You will teach various social st
Preview of Classroom Economy EDITABLE Bundle: An Educational Classroom Management Tool

Classroom Economy EDITABLE Bundle: An Educational Classroom Management Tool

Over 250 pages! This Classroom Economy Super Bundle is your one-stop-shop for getting started with a classroom economy to promote personal accountability and financial responsibility! Implementing a classroom economy is a fun and educational way to promote making good choices while teaching students about money management. Students earn money through a classroom job and bonuses by making good choices on a daily basis. Then students have opportunities throughout the year to buy things at a cl
Preview of Economics BUNDLE | Presentations and Google Slides Activities

Economics BUNDLE | Presentations and Google Slides Activities

Students will learn about important economic concepts in an engaging way with these presentations and google slides activities! The activities involve matching, sorting, labeling, and occasionally typing in google slides. Each product comes with a Google Forms quiz. Please look at the previews for each product before you purchase! This resource is not editable. Concepts Covered:- wants and needs- goods and services- producers and consumers- scarcity- opportunity cost- supply and demand- competit
Preview of 4th Grade Social Studies Economics Curriculum Unit Google Slides

4th Grade Social Studies Economics Curriculum Unit Google Slides

4th grade Social Studies Curriculum themed in Economics and includes lesson plans, reading passages, assessments, activities, and more. Each activity is also linked and downloadable to Google Drive for use in Google Classroom or other platforms. Unit correlates to concepts in the MC3 curriculum and meets Michigan Social Studies standards. Lessons are typically taught over a two day span.UPDATE: All files have been edited and updated where necessary!GOOGLE DRIVE ACCESS LINKS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE
Preview of Classroom Economy & Banking Unit Yearlong BUNDLE for Grades 4-6

Classroom Economy & Banking Unit Yearlong BUNDLE for Grades 4-6

Created by
Mrs Renz Class
Immerse your 4th and 5th graders in a real life yearlong classroom economy where they build financial literacy by living it each day. Students will use decimal addition and subtraction skills as they earn classroom cash, spend, earn, and save money. They will learn how to write checks and fill out a check ledger, pay bills and fines, manage their checking and savings accounts, earn paychecks and really understand their choices of spending and saving. Student banker-leaders will operate your cla
Preview of Touch Money Packet

Touch Money Packet

Touch Money is a great way to teach your students how to count groups of coins! I use this with my special learners who benefit from the visuals of touch points. This packet includes:-Front & back touch money posters-Draw the touch points on the coins (4 pages)-Draw the line to front/back of the matching coin (6 pages)-Write the coin name/amount (4 pages)-Cut/paste counting groups of coins WITH touch points (15 pages)-Counting groups of coins WITH touch points (15 pages)-Cut/paste counting g
Preview of Personal Finance for Kids| Financial Literacy

Personal Finance for Kids| Financial Literacy

⭐️Teaching financial literacy and personal finance to primary students can be a bit tricky. This resource is a great way to introduce students to real world concepts! Personal Finance Packet made fun for students with real world examples. ✅Help Monica with her chore list to save money for a new bike! -I've included 2 versions if you want to have a bigger calendar for students. ✅Students create their own prices for a chore chart and fill in the calendar. This can be done independent or with a par
Preview of Touch Money Bundle for Special Education

Touch Money Bundle for Special Education

This is a BUNDLE pack of all of my Touch Money resources! Grab them all at a discounted price by purchasing the bundle!Using touch money resources is a great way to teach students with special needs how to identify and count mixed groups of coins! These resources are differentiated and adapted to best fit your learners needs.If you purchase this product, PLEASE remember to leave feedback for TPT credits towards future purchases! For more ideas to work with your special learners, visit my blog @
Preview of Great Depression ESCAPE ROOM: Dust Bowl, Roaring Twenties, Stock Market

Great Depression ESCAPE ROOM: Dust Bowl, Roaring Twenties, Stock Market

Created by
Think Tank
The Great Depression Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about the Great Depression, stock market, Dust Bowl, the Roaring Twenties and FDR. This Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes. The codes include ciphers, Morse code, cryptograms and a final 4 digit code based on the decoders/clues.What’s Included?✏️ 4 Reading Passages✏️ 4 Puzzle Phrases to Decode✏️ 4 Decoders✏️ 4 Diffe
Preview of Shark Tank Project - Creating a Digital Business Entrepreneurship Project

Shark Tank Project - Creating a Digital Business Entrepreneurship Project

Do you have what it takes to impress the Sharks? In this digitally focused project, students will be immersed in a variety of free, online tools including: Google Workspace, DOCS, SITES, SLIDES, Canva, & More!Based on the hit show, "Shark Tank", students will experience what it's like as an entrepreneur as they research product or service ideas, identify a specific market, and use individual creativity to create a simple business plan, design a logo for their business, as well as a digital t
Preview of Economics Unit

Economics Unit

Looking for a comprehensive, print 'n go Economics Unit that meets standards AND engages students? You've found it!This unit has everything you need to fully teach your economics standards with ease! The informational texts and activities in this unit were created to align with standards throughout the country while creating an engaging experience for students.How is this unit arranged?Each lesson contains an informational text, a vocabulary spotlight foldable activity, a 'review and discuss' ac
Preview of Classroom Economy System Fake Money Printable & Bank Data Sheets

Classroom Economy System Fake Money Printable & Bank Data Sheets

Created by
SEL Inspired
What's included in this product? -A bank data sheet (The bank data sheet will help your students can track how much money their earn and how much money they spend on classroom incentives). -Classroom fake money printables for $1.00 bills, $5.00 bills, $10.00 bills, $20.00 bills, $50.00 bills, and $100.00 bills. -Classroom economy tip sheet for getting started! Would you like to create a classroom economy system? The objective of a class economy system is to reinforce positive classroom behav
Preview of Economy 101 Lapbook Unit

Economy 101 Lapbook Unit

Created by
Amber Polk
***UPDATED NOVEMBER 2012**** Are you looking for a way to make Social Studies Reading more fun and still teach Common Core Standards? Lapbooks and fold-its are a great way to do just that! With these fold-its, you can create a complete Economy lapbook or add the fold-its to your student's social studies notebooks! This file includes: -8 reading selections (one for each fold-it). Each are full page or half page, so you can turn them into student books. Lapbook Cover I Am A Consumer” Accordion
Preview of This is Your Life - Budgeting Activity

This is Your Life - Budgeting Activity

Created by
Tenno Teaching
A fun budgeting activity where students get to ‘choose their own life' based on their weekly income and expenses.Teach your students the importance of budgeting and saving while planning for everyday expenses and occasional luxuries. This activity is designed to teach budgeting and money management with students in middle primary. It can be used as a maths lesson or during humanities when covering economics. It is also a handy tool to begin discussions about poverty and inequalities in modern so
Preview of Australian Curriculum Year 5 HASS Economics & Business Unit

Australian Curriculum Year 5 HASS Economics & Business Unit

Created by
Mrs Amy123
Includes update to version 9 of the Australian Curriculum in addition to a version for 8.4. ✓ Editable Unit Planner ✓ Grading Guide ✓ Editable PowerPoint ✓ Worksheets ✓ Success Criteria/Learning IntentionsIn this Year 5 unit students explore the types of resources and how they satisfy needs and wants, addressing aspects of the HASS Australian Curriculum. ✩ It is a 9 lesson unit (designed to be taught over a term) that contains all lesson resources including worksheets and posters*.✩ This HASS u
Preview of Paper Airplane Factory: An Assembly Line Game

Paper Airplane Factory: An Assembly Line Game

This activity is to be used after teaching the students that natural resources can be used to make goods. These goods are often made in factories that utilize assembly lines. This game gives students the opportunity to participate in the assembly line process of creating paper air planes. This file contains directions for the game as well as job description cards for all of the assembly line workers. This activity would be a great hands on addition to your goods and services social studies u
Preview of SPACE QUEST | Needs vs Wants Cooperative Game

SPACE QUEST | Needs vs Wants Cooperative Game

Created by
FI Educator
Are you looking for a fun way to help your personal finance students determine the difference between needs and wants? Space Quest provides a fun cooperative challenge, to help students from elementary to high school, figure out the difference between needs and wants. In this group activity, teams will be introduced to the scenario by a video informing them that they have been selected to join Space Quest, a team being tasked with determining if a newly discovered planet could sustain humanity.
Preview of Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, Supply & Demand, Competition | Google Slides

Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, Supply & Demand, Competition | Google Slides

This presentation uses a lemonade stand to teach important economic concepts! Students will make economic decisions for their lemonade stand as they learn about scarcity, opportunity cost, supply & demand, and competition. It includes real images and discussion questions to spark great conversations in your classroom! Students can then show what they know by completing the 6 interactive google slides activities which you can assign to Google Classroom!*This product is part of a BUNDLE* This
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Find Economics resources | TPT

If you’re an educator or parent looking for printable or digital resources to help your student learn about economics, TPT has got you covered. We’ve got a comprehensive collection of economics and financial literacy resources available, including activities and lessons on trade, goods and services, and the stock market to name just a few. With plenty of TPT high-quality resources at your fingertips, you’ll be able to teach economics to your students in no time at all.

Economics activities to try

Here are a few examples of the different types of activities and lessons you can find on TPT to help teach students about economics:

Simulation Activities

You can introduce students to the world of investing, budgeting, and other economics-related activities through simulations. For example, have students research companies they want to "invest" in to show them how the stock market works. If you want to extend the lesson, you can have them periodically check in on their portfolios throughout the year to see how their investments are performing. Or, you could use a simulation to teach them about causes that led up to certain major historical events, like the stock market crash of 1929.

Budgeting Exercises

Help students understand the importance of managing their own financial resources by challenging them to create a budget. Give them a few hypothetical scenarios involving income, expenses, and financial goals. For example, you could ask them to plan a fictional character's monthly expenses, or have them create a budget to save for buying a house.

Trade Games

Through trading games, students can learn about importing and exporting, along with the impact of external forces and trade agreements. Ask students to work in teams and have them trade goods, record their imports and exports, and respond to charges (like tariffs and embargoes).

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Give students a real-world decision to make (e.g., building a new road, investing in a new technology, or buying property) and have them perform a cost-benefit analysis. To deepen the learning, you can ask them to justify their decisions with evidence.

Frequently asked questions for teaching economics

What is economics?

The study of economics is a social science that focuses on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. When teaching economics, the goal is to help students understand how individuals, businesses, governments, and societies make choices about resource allocation. Economics explores various topics related to this, including supply and demand, cost and benefits, and scarcity, to name just a few.

What types of economics resources are available on TPT?

There are many different types of economics resources sold by Sellers on TPT — from budgeting activities to simulation games to units.

How do I find economics resources on TPT?

Educators can save time preparing economics lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for economics resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.