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Chocolate Economics

Whet your appetite with this tasty curriculum unit designed to sweeten your economics lessons. This unit uses a chocolate theme to teach elementary school lessons that directly correlate with the national content standards in economics. The creative activities are stimulating for young students and allow for active learning. The materials are easy for educators to use as thorough discussions of economic concepts are included. Activities have clear, thorough instructions, and all required game pieces, flash cards, worksheets, and activity cards are included for duplication. Topics include: resources, scarcity, opportunity cost, economic decision making, barter trade and exchange, interdependence (and applications to the global marketplace), producers, and consumers. Children's literature is incorporated.

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