Lessons
Grades | Lesson | Concept | Lesson Description | Content Areas |
NE Standard(s) | US Econ Standard(s) |
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1-3 |
Opportunity Cost |
In this lesson, students will learn about choices and opportunity costs that occur every day. While this lesson will go on throughout the day, the actual lesson is short. |
Economics |
Benchmarks: 0 |
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1-3 |
Goods/Services |
A little mouse shows up at a young man's house. The young man gives the mouse a cookie and starts a chain of events. Learn about unlimited wants, and goods and services. ©SPEC Publishing |
Language Arts
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1.2.1 |
Benchmarks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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K-2 |
Saving/Spending |
Lesson 8, Personal Finance Economics K-12: Pocketwise. (PDF Format) Copyright ©1996, Council for Economic Education, New York, NY 10036. Used with permission. |
Personal Finance
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Benchmarks: 0 |
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K-2 |
Spending, Budget, Choice, Decision Making |
Children and adults, confronted by a multitude of tempting consumer products, must learn to evaluate the options available to them. But how does one spend money wisely? |
Economics, Personal Finance |
N/A |
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1-3 |
Producers/Production, Resources: Natural/Human/Capital |
Geraldine, a goat, tells the story of a Navajo weaver who produces a rug using the goat's mohair. Learn about economics: producers, resources (natural, human, capital), intermediate goods; and Language Arts: Categorizing, sequencing, noting details, writing personal narrative. ©SPEC Publishing |
Language Arts |
Benchmarks: 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 73 |
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4-6 |
Popcorn Economics |
Scarcity |
Lesson using popcorn to teach, and to help students experience, scarcity. Lesson by Mary Suiter, adapted from a lesson found in Kaleidascope, USA. Published by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education, UM-St. Louis. |
Economics, |
Benchmarks: 0 |
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4-6 |
Productivity/Entrepreneurs |
Elijah McCoy was an African-American inventor who successfully designed an automatic oil cup that may have inspired the popular phrase, "the real McCoy." Learn about increasing productivity and patents. ©SPEC Publishing. |
Language Arts |
Benchmarks: 1, 2 |
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4-6 |
Resources: Natural/Human/Capital |
The doughnut machine goes on a rampage making hundreds of doughnuts. Learn about capital resources, increasing productivity, law of demand, quantity demanded, and Language Arts: using reference materials, oral expression, organizing and sequencing information. ©SPEC Publishing. |
Language Arts |
Benchmarks: 1, 2, 3, 4 |