Economics: Resources
Games/Activities:
This link leads to a video that is a great classroom activity that teaches students the basic concepts of economics through earning, saving, and spending in an in-classroom reward system.
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This link leads to different online games, activities, and simulations that help students understand basic concepts of economics and how they can earn their own profit.
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This is an example of a lesson plan and activity that can be used in the classroom to help students prioritize and distinguish their wants and needs.
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This link leads to a series of activities that can be used to teach specific economic concept, how to teach each concept, and why it is important to teach these concepts at an early age.
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Websites:
This link leads to a website that shows all of the money around the world, its currency, and converting money from one country to another.
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This website is a great website to explore money around the world. It shows what's on each country's currency and basic facts about their economy.
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This link leads to a website with many different links to articles and activities that are good ways to teach students economics, and more importantly, that economics is more than just money.
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This link leads to a teacher's portfolios with her lesson plans and resources of how she teaches economics and its basic concepts in her classroom.
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Children's Literature:
This link leads to a PDF file that has many different economic standards and children's literature and other resources that can be used to teach those standards.
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This link leads to a read aloud of the book Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type. This is a good children's book to read to students to help them understand the basic concepts of economics.
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This website provides teachers, parents, and volunteers with ideas for using children's literature to introduce economics to children.
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On this website, users can click on an economics concept to get a list of their “Top Five” choices for acclaimed children’s books that use enjoyable stories to teach an economics lesson.
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