| Level |
Lesson
|
Concepts |
Lesson Description
|
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, Council for 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 |
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: 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
|
| 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, Council for 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: 3-5 |
I have no money; will you take wampam? |
barter/trade,money/exchange,goods and services, interdependence |
From EconEdLink: Through the use of folk tales, history, and the students' own experiences, students will recognize the inter-relatedness of goods, services, money. They will locate information about barter as a means of trade, use folk tales as an historical instrument. |
Economics |
NE Standards: SS 0 |
US Standard: 6,11;
Benchmarks: 0
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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 |
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: 3-5 |
Those Golden Jeans |
demand, natural resources,shortages and surpluses,supply,surpluses shortages |
EconEdLink: This lesson is designed to review the three types of productive resources-natural resources, human resources, and capital resources-needed to produce goods and services. Students use the internet to identify examples of each - first in the production of pizza, then the mining of gold during the California gold rush. |
Economics |
NE Standards: SS 0 |
US Standard: ;
Benchmarks: 0
|
| Grades: 3-5 |
The Colonial Workers Web |
consumers/consumption, goods and services,interdependence,producers/production,specialization |
From EconFun: Students will participate in an activity to explore how workers, both today and in colonial times, worked within their societies to produce specialized goods and services and became interdependent. Lesson 11 from Adventures in Economics and U.S. History, Volume 1. |
Economics,history |
NE Standards: SS 0 |
US Standard: 6;
Benchmarks: 0
|
| Grades: 3-5 |
Where Did You Come From? |
exports,imports,interdependence,specialization |
From EconEdLink: In this multiple intelligences lesson the students figure out why the United States imports some goods that we can grow right here! |
Economics |
NE Standards: SS 0 |
US Standard: 6;
Benchmarks: 0
|
| Grades: 3-5 |
Jobs: Who Needs 'Em? |
trade-offs, unemployment, trade-off |
EconEdLink: In this lesson students will look at the importance having some kind of job, at the consequences of having a job, having a non-paying job (like a stay-at-home mom), and having no job (whether it's intentional or not). |
economics, |
NE Standards: SS 0 |
US Standard: 19;
Benchmarks: 0
|
| Grades: 3-5 |
Saturday Sancocho |
money/exchange,barter,wants |
From St. Louis FRBank: In this lesson, students listen to a story and answer questions about a family in Central or South America that barters to get the ingredients for chicken sancocho, a kind of stew. The students complete sentences that record the various trades carried out by the family to obtain all of the ingredients for the sancocho. They participate in a trading activity where they barter with each other to get the ingredients needed to make chicken sancocho and learn about the difficulties associated with barter. They use money in a second round of the trading activity to learn about money's advantages over barter. |
Economics |
NE Standards: SS 0 |
US Standard: 11;
Benchmarks: 0
|
| Grades: 3-5 |
The Story of Jack and the Bank Stalk |
money,banking,exchange,interest rate,opportunity cost,currency,functions of money |
EconEdLink: Fairy tales have always been used to give lessons about life. The story of Jack and the Bean Stalk is a good lesson about the importance of knowing about money and banks. The story of Jack asks the question, 'What is money?' |
Economics |
NE Standards: SS 0 |
US Standard: 10,11;
Benchmarks: 0
|
| Grades: 3-5 |
Car Shopping |
economic systems, incentives, price |
EconEdLink: Contrary to US methods of distribution (namely prices), the Soviet Union used different methods of distribution of its goods during the reign of Communism. This lesson will explore the benefits and consequences of each of those methods of distribution. |
Economics |
NE Standards: SS 0 |
US Standard: 3,4;
Benchmarks: 0
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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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