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| Level |
Lesson
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Concepts |
Lesson Description
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Content Areas |
Nebraska Standards |
National Standards
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| Grades: K-2 |
Why We Save |
Choice, Money/Exchange, Saving, Spending, Opportunity cost |
Lesson 8, Personal Finance Economics K-12: Pocketwise. (PDF Format) Copyright ©1996, National Council on Economic Education, New York, NY 10036. Used with permission. |
Personal finance |
NE Standards: SS 1.6, 1.7,1.8 |
US Standard: 1, 2, 5, 11;
Benchmarks:
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| Grades: 1-3 |
If you Give a Mouse a Cookie |
Goods and 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 |
NE Standards: SS 1.6 |
US Standard: 1, 3;
Benchmarks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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| Grades: 1-3 |
The Goat in the Rug* |
Producers/Production, Resources-Human/Natural/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 |
NE Standards: SS 1.6, 1.7 |
US Standard: 1, 3;
Benchmarks: 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 73
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| Grades: 3-5 |
Why Do I Want All This Stuff? |
Demand, Consumers/Consumption |
Lesson 4, Personal Finance Economics 3-5: Smart Saving and Spending. Copyright ©1996, National Council on Economic Education, New York, NY 10036. Used with permission. |
Personal Finance |
NE Standards: SS 4.8 |
US Standard: 2, 7, 8;
Benchmarks:
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| Grades: 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 |
NE Standards: SS 4.8, 8.3.5 |
US Standard: 1;
Benchmarks:
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| Grades: 4-6 |
Nebraska Entrepreneur Hometown Heros, Lesson 10, (PDF) |
Entrepreneurs |
Selected lesson from a curriculum guide focusing on Nebraska entreprenuers. (PDF format) Creating your Own Career: Economics Lessons for Secondary Teachers, Authors: Derry Trampe, Chuck Parker, Tammie Fischer, and Mary Lynn Reiser.
©Nebraska Council on Economic Education |
Economics, history |
NE Standards: SS 4.2, 4.3, 4.8 |
US Standard: 14;
Benchmarks:
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| Grades: 4-6 |
Nebraska Entrepreneur Success Stories, Lesson 1, (PDF) |
Entrepreneurs |
Selected lesson from a curriculum guide focusing on Nebraska entreprenuers. (PDF format) Creating your Own Career: Economics Lessons for Secondary Teachers, Authors: Derry Trampe, Chuck Parker, Tammie Fischer, and Mary Lynn Reiser.
©Nebraska Council on Economic Education |
Economics, history |
NE Standards: SS 4.2, 4.3, 4.8 |
US Standard: 14;
Benchmarks:
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| Grades: 4-6 |
The Real McCoy* |
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 |
NE Standards: SS 4.2, 4.3, 4.8 |
US Standard: 1, 12, 14;
Benchmarks: 1, 2
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| Grades: 4-6 |
Homer Price (the Doughnuts)* |
Resources-Human/Natural/Capital, Factors of Production, Productivity |
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 |
NE Standards: SS 1.6, 1.7, 4.8, 4.9 |
US Standard: 1, 7;
Benchmarks: 1, 2, 3, 4
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