Taxation without Representation?
This lesson will take students through the series of tax acts that were enacted by the British government and disputed by the original 13 colonies ...
Grade: 3-5 6-8    Published: 08/14/2003


Tic Tac Taxes!
This lesson will assist students in identifying various taxes and the services they help governments provide.
Grade: 3-5    Published: 11/07/2002


President Bush's Allowance
In this lesson, students will identify different expenses in the US budget and will decide on the order of importance for different expenses.
Grade: 3-5    Published: 06/26/2003


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 people and companies.
Grade: 3-5    Published: 04/01/2003


Who Pays for City Hall?
The students take a virtual field trip to City Hall in this kid-friendly site. This beginning civics/economic lesson will introduce your students t...
Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 03/18/2002


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Exploring the Marketplace: The Community Publishing Company - Teacher Resource ManualExploring the Marketplace: The Community Publishing Company - Teacher Resource Manual
Grade: 3-4   Published: 1989
8 of the 35 lessons are related to this lesson. The top 5 are listed below.


Lesson 4: Communities Today
Students study how resources change in communities by comparing the maps of Communityville. This lesson summarizes the two previous map lessons and helps students become familiar with the suppliers of...
Lesson 5: My Community
This lesson provides an opportunity for students to explore their own community by naming places in it that provide goods and services. Working in small groups, the students discuss and list this inf...
Lesson 6: Our Community
The students study their own community while creating a display on the bulletin board. Using the lists prepared in Lesson 5, students discuss the places that produce goods and services in the communi...
Lesson 3: Communities Change
Students analyze how Communityville has grown by examining another map of the town. The students locate new resources that provide goods and services to the people of Communityville.
Lesson 2: Community Resources
This lesson aims to develop an understanding of natural, human, and capital goods resources through a mapping exercise. The students study a map of a model community and begin to understand that a co...

Financial Fitness for Life: Steps to Financial Fitness - Grades 3-5 - Teacher GuideFinancial Fitness for Life: Steps to Financial Fitness - Grades 3-5 - Teacher Guide
Grade: 3-5   Published: 2001
3 of the 16 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below.


Theme 3: Lesson 6 - Consumers Want Goods and Services
This lesson focuses on consumer spending decisions that students make and the different roles they assume in making those decisions. The activities establish a rationale for studying personal finance...
Theme 1: Lesson 3 - People Pay Taxes
In this lesson, students participate in an activity to help them understand that people pay taxes. They learn about income, gross income, income taxes, and net income. They also learn that governmen...
Theme 1: Lesson 2 - Urban Mouse & Rural Mouse
In this lesson, children use an index of businesses for a fictitious community to learn that people provide goods and services in the community. They read an adaptation of the fable "City Mouse, Coun...

 

 
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