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1st grade economics resources for Microsoft Word

Preview of Printable Money - Penny, Nickel, Dime, and Quarter

Printable Money - Penny, Nickel, Dime, and Quarter

This is a printable page with coins (penny, nickel, dime, and quarter) sized at roughly the equivalent coin size in color. This can be used for money projects or for helping students to identify coins. In my classroom I have the students cut out the coins (practicing fine motor skills), practice making change, then glue the coins to a piece of paper for something they want to "buy". Also, if the money is printed in black and white, it can help students to identify coins by features other than co
Preview of Then and Now Technology

Then and Now Technology

This is an activity showing 20 items with 3 pictures showing their development. Students need to sort the pictures and discuss the changes of the items from their beginnings. As an extension, I would ask to design the next development of the item. Then and Now Technology by Maria Elena Morales is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Preview of Supply & Demand Cut and Paste

Supply & Demand Cut and Paste

This cut and paste activity shows different scenarios of High Supply & Low Demand and Low Supply & High Demand. I will use this cut and paste to lead into further discussion of Supply and Demand. Students should have a basic understanding IF you are going to use this as an assessment piece. My higher students will complete this independently. My lower students will complete in a small group so we can discuss.
Preview of School: Then and Now

School: Then and Now

This is a sorting activity with 42 cards and 2 mats with pictures (side by side) of school elements from the past and today. Students will learn how each school element has changed such as room, uniform, books, teachers, lunchbox, discipline, etc. They will realize the extensive changes from their grandparents generation to theirs. School: Then and Now by Maria Elena Morales is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Preview of Goods and Services Sort for Economics Unit

Goods and Services Sort for Economics Unit

Created by
Vanessa M
This sort can be used during an economics unit and during lessons on goods and services. Students cut and sort 10 words and pictures into the correct category: goods or services.
Preview of Producer and Consumer "The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza"

Producer and Consumer "The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza"

Created by
Erica Foster
Use this graphic organizer/activity to teach your students about producers and consumers while incorporating a fun book of literature. After reading the book cut out the pictures from the story of producers, consumers, and goods and paste them in the appropriate place.
Preview of Transportation: Land, Air, and Water Sort

Transportation: Land, Air, and Water Sort

Created by
Kristen Campbell
This is a great activity for students to work on in centers or when they have finished their work early. If students cannot yet read, instruct the students in finding the beginning sound of each label or use the pictures of land, air, and water instead of the labels. • Cut out and laminate these pictures and labels. Have students sort the pictures by land, air, and water. • Put a magnet on the back of each cut-out. Do the activity as a class on the whiteboard. • You can also print a cop
Preview of Back to school classroom procedural handbook

Back to school classroom procedural handbook

This editable word document back to school classroom procedural handbook includes the following procedures; start of day routine, pencil sharpening, welcome work routine, morning meeting, bathroom and drinks, asking a question, while others are talking, exiting and entering the classroom, walking the halls, turning papers in, homework, take home binders, packing up, exiting at the end of the day, bringing toys to school, star student, classroom economy, classroom jobs, consequences, behavior cli
Preview of Wants vs. Needs Lesson Plan using IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE

Wants vs. Needs Lesson Plan using IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE

Created by
Tina Mosier
This document is a first grade lesson plan designed to help students understand the difference between wants and needs. It includes a full lesson plan incorporating Laura Numeroff's book IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE, a bell-ringer worksheet, a chart and Venn diagram that could be used as transparencies or worksheets, an assessment worksheet to check for understanding, and a checklist for the assessment. Tina Mosier
Preview of Needs and Wants Picture Sort

Needs and Wants Picture Sort

Created by
Kristen Campbell
This is a great picture sort with 8 pictures of needs and 8 pictures of wants. This activity includes labels with pictures for children that cannot read. You can cut out these pictures and laminate them for continued use in the classroom or have students cut these out, sort them, and glue them on paper or a poster. This could be used as a class activity, assessment, homework, or center activity. Use these pictures in a whole group to introduce or review needs and wants, or use them in small grou
Preview of Social Studies Goods/Services Project Based Learning Project

Social Studies Goods/Services Project Based Learning Project

Created by
Calla Miller
In first grade at our school, we learn about goods, services, supply, demand, scarcity, producers, and consumers. To help students fully understand these concepts, we do this project-based assessment. This includes guide lines for what to teach over 3 weeks, a parent letter, how to set up the project, final assessment with answer key, and additional resources. This project incorporates writing (persuasive advertisements), math (advertisements with prices), and social studies objectives.
Preview of Producer and Consumer "The Little Red Hen Makes A Pizza"

Producer and Consumer "The Little Red Hen Makes A Pizza"

Created by
Erica Foster
Use this worksheet to help students understand producers, consumers, and goods. The students will cut out pictures from the story, "The Little Red Hen Makes A Pizza" and glue the pictures into the correct boxes.
Preview of Economics Test for Elementary Students (Need-Wants/Buyer-Seller/Goods-Services)

Economics Test for Elementary Students (Need-Wants/Buyer-Seller/Goods-Services)

Created by
Simply Shogreen
This test is an elementary level assessment for Social Studies/Economic concepts. Concepts assessed with the test include needs and wants, buyers and sellers and goods and services. Test is simple with bright and well defined pictures to assist all levels of readers!
Preview of Community Helpers Picture Match

Community Helpers Picture Match

Created by
Kristen Campbell
Use these cards as an introduction to community helpers, as a center activity, or for an activity the students can do when they finish their work early. If students cannot yet read, leave out the descriptions or have a more advanced student help their classmates. Here are two ways you can use these cards. 1. Use these cards to match pictures of community helpers to their description and to the tools they use. 2. Play a memory game with the cards. Try to match community helpers to their descrip
Preview of Finance for Kids: Volume 1: Wants and Needs

Finance for Kids: Volume 1: Wants and Needs

Created by
Finance for Kids
This lesson plan goes with Volume 1 of the series Finance for Kidz by Professor Prakash L Dheeriya. The lesson plan includes activities for a teacher explaining wants and needs. After doing these activities and other activities in remaining lesson plans of the series, children and adults can understand money, finances, economy, business, credit, and budgeting. In addition, they can manage their personal finances. ****PLEASE NOTE: THE HARDCOVER BOOK OR ITS CONTENT IS NOT AVAILABLE WITH THIS LES
Preview of Needs and Wants/Goods and Services Test

Needs and Wants/Goods and Services Test

Created by
Amanda Taylor
This covers Economics for 2nd grade standards for Needs and Wants, and Goods and Services. It has definition matching, multiple choice, as well as identify the picture.
Preview of Dollar Bill - Blank Template

Dollar Bill - Blank Template

This is a fake Dollar Bill Blank Template. This is useful in teaching the parts of a Dollar Bill as well as for a fun activity. Students can make themselves on their own fake money. This is useful as homework, classwork, or in a math center.
Preview of Social Studies VA SOL 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 Economics Study Guide

Social Studies VA SOL 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 Economics Study Guide

This study guide gives a detailed explanation of economics on a child friendly level. It is based on the SOL essential knowledge, but is elaborated and explained. I have incorporated graphics and examples.
Preview of Finance for Kids: Volume 18: Starting a Business

Finance for Kids: Volume 18: Starting a Business

Created by
Finance for Kids
This lesson plan goes with Volume 18 of the series Finance for Kidz by Professor Prakash L Dheeriya. The lesson plan includes activities that a teacher can do while teaching this topic. By understanding this basic concept, children of all ages can get a better understanding of money, finances, economy, business, credit, budgeting. In addition, they can better manage their personal finances, including allowances, checking account and credit cards. ****PLEASE NOTE: THE HARDCOVER BOOK OR ITS CONTE
Preview of Primary Economics: Producer and Consumer Cut Out and Sort

Primary Economics: Producer and Consumer Cut Out and Sort

This is a quick sort that can be a great formative assessment and a fun activity.
Preview of First Grade Economics Test & Study Guide

First Grade Economics Test & Study Guide

Created by
Kelsey Dugar
Assessment & Study Guide for 1st Grade economics. Matches New Louisiana Standards. Covers wants, needs, goods, services, producer, consumer, and opportunity cost. Get my Wants, needs, & choices PowerPoint to teach before the test! 1.2–1.4; 1.17–1.18; 1.20–1.21
Preview of Wants and Needs: Elementary Digital Breakout - Distance Learning

Wants and Needs: Elementary Digital Breakout - Distance Learning

Use this 100% online, no prep online escape room activity to reinforce or assess social studies concepts of wants and needs, goods and services. This engaging activity will have your early elementary students hooked as they watch videos and solve puzzles in a race against the clock to successfully complete the breakout!Please note: In order for this activity to work in your classroom, your students must have access to internet enabled devices (shared devices are fine, and the type of device does
Preview of How to Write a Check

How to Write a Check

Created by
Karban TpT Store
This assignment will help student perfect their check writing skills.
Preview of Responsi-Bill Classroom Money - Bills and Checks!

Responsi-Bill Classroom Money - Bills and Checks!

Created by
The Bright Bunch
I have so much fun using this "money" in my classroom for management and rewards. This document includes "single" bills, "blank checks" and "$100.00 Bills". Ready to copy! You will find TONS of uses for these and you'll have fun using them. I open my classroom store (The Responsi-Bill Store) once a month. Fun, fun! Students learn math and money management along the way. They also learn to prioritize when shopping in the class store. (If you would like to purchase the editable file, pleas
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Find Economics resources | TPT

If you’re an educator or parent looking for printable or digital resources to help your student learn about economics, TPT has got you covered. We’ve got a comprehensive collection of economics and financial literacy resources available, including activities and lessons on trade, goods and services, and the stock market to name just a few. With plenty of TPT high-quality resources at your fingertips, you’ll be able to teach economics to your students in no time at all.

Economics activities to try

Here are a few examples of the different types of activities and lessons you can find on TPT to help teach students about economics:

Simulation Activities

You can introduce students to the world of investing, budgeting, and other economics-related activities through simulations. For example, have students research companies they want to "invest" in to show them how the stock market works. If you want to extend the lesson, you can have them periodically check in on their portfolios throughout the year to see how their investments are performing. Or, you could use a simulation to teach them about causes that led up to certain major historical events, like the stock market crash of 1929.

Budgeting Exercises

Help students understand the importance of managing their own financial resources by challenging them to create a budget. Give them a few hypothetical scenarios involving income, expenses, and financial goals. For example, you could ask them to plan a fictional character's monthly expenses, or have them create a budget to save for buying a house.

Trade Games

Through trading games, students can learn about importing and exporting, along with the impact of external forces and trade agreements. Ask students to work in teams and have them trade goods, record their imports and exports, and respond to charges (like tariffs and embargoes).

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Give students a real-world decision to make (e.g., building a new road, investing in a new technology, or buying property) and have them perform a cost-benefit analysis. To deepen the learning, you can ask them to justify their decisions with evidence.

Frequently asked questions for teaching economics

What is economics?

The study of economics is a social science that focuses on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. When teaching economics, the goal is to help students understand how individuals, businesses, governments, and societies make choices about resource allocation. Economics explores various topics related to this, including supply and demand, cost and benefits, and scarcity, to name just a few.

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Educators can save time preparing economics lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for economics resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.