Economic Spotter: Supply and Demand at the Gold Rush
During the Gold Rush, people paid exorbitant prices for ordinary objects. Why? Because of the laws of supply and demand, that's why! In the lesson,...
Grade: 3-5 6-8    Published: 07/23/2002


NOT your Grandma's Lemonade Stand
After a review of elementary economic concepts, students will apply their understanding by playing an online computer game, Lemonade Stand. This ga...
Grade: 3-5 6-8    Published: 03/15/2002


Did You Get the Message?
Advertising is the primary tool used by businesses to tell consumers about the goods and services they sell in the marketplace. Businesses also use ad...
Grade: 3-5 6-8    Published: 06/15/2006


Lemon Squeeze - The Lemonade Stand
Everyone has at one time or another opened a lemonade or Kool-Aid Stand. What a great place to begin an economics lesson. Students can taste test t...
Grade: 3-5 6-8    Published: 08/26/2002


Those Golden Jeans
This lesson is designed to review the three types of productive resources-natural resources, human resources, and capital resource-needed to...
Grade: 3-5 6-8    Published: 04/15/2002


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Choices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 5-6 - Teacher's Resource ManualChoices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 5-6 - Teacher's Resource Manual
Grade: 5-6   Published: 2001
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Unit 2: Lesson 6 - What Results When People Can Produce More?
Students become components of their circular flow model, representing the producer and consumer sectors, while making exchanges in resource and product markets. Productive resources, goods and servic...

Financial Fitness for Life: Shaping Up Your Financial Future - Grades 6-8 - Teacher GuideFinancial Fitness for Life: Shaping Up Your Financial Future - Grades 6-8 - Teacher Guide
Grade: 6-8   Published: 2001
1 of the 17 lessons are related to this lesson. It is listed below.


Theme 2: Lesson 3 - Career Choice Making
In this lesson, the students learn that career choices are easier to make if they understand the job market, recognize their own aptitudes, and realize the relationship between marketable skills and w...

 

 
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