To Market To Market
This lesson will help students become good consumers and producers by taking turns buying and selling things in a classroom-created market. Student...
Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 05/08/2003


What is Competition?
Students will understand what businesses are, that a marketplace exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services, and that there is ...
Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 12/17/2003


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


Every Penny Counts
You know that five dollars you got for your birthday? There are so many things you can spend it on, aren’t there? A toy boat to sail on the p...
Grade: K-2    Published: 08/11/2003


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


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Choices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 2-4 - Teacher's Resource ManualChoices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 2-4 - Teacher's Resource Manual
Grade: 2-4   Published: 2001
3 of the 18 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below.


Unit 4: Lesson 17 - Markets and Exchange
Students will feel empowered when they make voluntary exchanges.
Unit 4: Lesson 16 - Entrepreneurs and the Interdependence of Buyers and Sellers
People often think of themselves as consumers, but not as producers. In this lesson, students will meet business owners, managers, and entrepreneurs so that they can identify with them and perhaps as...
Unit 4: Lesson 18 - The Labor Market: My Human Capital Pays Off
Students will envision themselves as future workers, business owners or managers, professionals, or entrepreneurs.

Financial Fitness for Life: Pocket Power - Grades K-2 - Teacher GuideFinancial Fitness for Life: Pocket Power - Grades K-2 - Teacher Guide
Grade: K-2   Published: 2001
1 of the 16 lessons are related to this lesson. It is listed below.


Theme 3: Lesson 9 - We Decide to Spend
Students create want webs for a hamster and then for themselves. They experience spending money in exchange for goods and services when they use dimes to become consumers at a school carnival.

 

 
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