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Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Productive Resources Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Productive Resources. Productive resources are used to produce goods and services and are classified...
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161 of Total Resources
Resources (by date)
161 of Total Resources
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161 of Total Resources
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
EconEdLink Workshop Overview
This video is from an EconEdLink workshop held at the National Center for Economic and Financial Education. Teachers learn how...
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
EconEdLink Overview
This video is a basic introduction to the features of EconEdLink. It takes a look at the three most important...
Grades K-2
A New Coat for Anna - Barter and Trade
By reading the book "A New Coat for Anna" students will learn about resources and trade/bartering through a young girl,...
Key Concepts: Money, Money
Grades 3-5
One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
The picture book One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, written by Kate Smith Milway, takes place...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Budgeting/Money Managment, Entrepreneurs…
Grades K-2, 3-5
Opportunity Cost - Consumers
Key Concepts: Globalization, International Trade, Scarcity
Grades K-2
Human Resources and Capital Resources: It's A Match!
Students will define and identify human resources and capital resources workers use in their jobs.
Key Concepts: Goods and Services
Grades K-2
Teach About Scarcity with "The Mitten"
This is a folktale retold by Jan Brett about a little boy whose grandmother knits him a pair of snow...
Key Concepts: Allocation, Allocation, Basic Economic Concepts…
Grades 3-5
Cowboy Bob Builds a Community
A cowboy rides into a ghost town and decides that it needs to be rebuilt. Students will select the necessary...
Grades K-2
Funny Money or Phony Money?
Money is what we use to show what goods or services are worth. When you do work, you are paid...
Grades 3-5
How Labor Got Its Day
If you asked students what comes to mind first when they think of Labor Day, what do you think they...
Grades 3-5, 6-8
Work, Earnings, and Economics: "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
This updated lesson is based on the novel, Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson. Set mainly in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s,...
Key Concepts: Budgeting/Money Managment, Scarcity
Grades 3-5
The Color of Resources
This lesson will demonstrate the making of Crayola products to introduce natural, capital, and human resources as well as touching...
Grades 3-5
You Can BANK on This! (Part 1)
Banking should not be confusing. It should be INTERESTing! Most students in the elementary grades would love to know more...
Grades 3-5
You Can BANK on This! (Part 4)
This lesson deals with credit and wraps up this unit on finance.
Grades 3-5
The Grasshopper and the Ant
Understanding the concept of opportunity cost is critical for good decision making. The ability to identify the opportunity cost—the highest...
Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, Goods and Services…
