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.
The Buck Starts Here!
Are you creditworthy, or are you like Matilda the Moocher? Would you keep your money in a pouch like Saruni, who lives in an African Village? If you wanted to buy a pizza in France, what would it cost? Follow the money through this curriculum unit aimed at teaching students the importance of understanding money. Topics include identifying money, history of money, trade and exchange, circulation of money, saving, budgeting,banking, and credit.
Around the World the Econ Way
If you are looking for a way to teach and plan across the curriculum--look no further. This curriculum unit uses children's literature to teach economics, history, and geography to elementary school students. Teachers will help their students "Book a Trip Around the World" with hands-on activities designed to help students understand that people all over the word are buyers and sellers, that resources are combined to produce goods and services, that people have been trading to get what they want for centuries...and much more! Featured in this unit is a special student passport to help students keep track of all the faraway places they visit during their study. Topics include: resources, scarcity, opportunity cost, economics decision making, barter trade, exchanging money for goods and services, saving and spending, production, consumption, modes of transportation, directions, map reading, United States geography, global geography, local and global interdependence.