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Related Print Lessons
The following lessons come from the Council for Economic
Education's library of print publications. Clicking the publication titles will take you to the Council for Economic Education Store for more detailed information. | Financial 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.
Theme 3: Lesson 11 - Ads Make Us Spend
Students examine various forms of advertising and discover why companies advertise their products. They watch television commercials to answer questions about products advertised and consumer wants. ...
Theme 2: Lesson 6 - How We Save
The class hears a story about Nicholas's family during a time of unexpected financial emergency. Students experience scarcity as they try to fit everything they want into a pocket. They learn about ...
Theme 2: Lesson 4 - Money Lets Us Choose
Students listen to a short story introducing the difficulty of making choices. They discuss and experience costs and benefits as they make a choice among alternatives, using a grid. The class makes ...
Theme 4: Lesson 13 - We Are Lenders
This lesson focuses on the relationship between borrowers and lenders from the perspective of the lender. The students explore the costs and benefits of making a lending decision using the Pocket Dec...
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 | Choices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 2-4 - Teacher's Resource Manual
Grade: 2-4 Published: 2001
6 of the 18 lessons are related to this lesson. The top 5 are listed below.
Unit 1: Lesson 5 - Opportunity Cost
In this lesson students will: Recognize the importance of identifying the opportunity cost of a potential choice; Use the concept of opportunity cost before making decisions; Avoid using the word "fre...
Unit 1: Lesson 1 - Scarcity
It is a paradox that people who learn to accept and deal with scarcity often achieve much more than those who don't accept it. The inability to deal with scarcity leads to problems with money, educat...
Unit 1: Lesson 4 - Choice
In this lesson, students should recognize that they have the power to choose and that they do make many choices. Many people feel powerless because they think they don't make choices.
Unit 1: Lesson 3 - Alternatives Have Advantages and Disadvantages
In this lesson students will: Realize that alternatives have advantages and disadvantages; Accept responsibility for advantages and disadvantages of alternatives selected; And identify the advantages ...
Unit 1: Lesson 2 - Alternatives
In working on Choices and Changes, students should learn that they can ordinarily respond to events in their lives by alternative means, and that it is up to them in these cases to find an alternative...
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