Standards (complete) that emphasize economics, with recommended lessons:

4.4 Students will compare and contrast daily life in the past and present, considering things, such as roles, jobs, communication, technology, transportation, schools, and cultural traditions.

Lessons for this standard:

Economics and Children's Literature--Supplement 2

Online: Lesson based on "The Real McCoy"
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.

• LESSON ONE: Early Trade Barriers
  
• LESSON TWO: Resources for the Voyage
  
• LESSON THREE: Technology and the Trip

Kaleidoscope, USA

Economics and Children's Literature--Supplement 2

Online: Lesson based on "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"
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

Online: Life of a Dollar Bill

Online: The Road To Roota

Children in the Marketplace

• THREE: People Want More
  
• FOUR: People's Wants Stimulate Production
  
• FIVE: In a Market Economy, the Forces of Supply and Demand Set the Prices at Which Exchanges Take Place
  
• EIGHT: Children in the Marketplace
  

Choices & Changes: Human Capital and Entrepreneurship

• PART ONE: Creativity and Invention
  
• PART TWO: Producing a Product
  

Choices & Changes: Work, Human Resources, and Choices

• PART ONE: I Am a Worker
  
• PART TWO: I Can Improve My Human Resources
  

Community Publishing Company, The

Economics for Kids: Ideas for Teaching in the Elementary Grades

• Lesson One: Goods and Services
  
• Lesson Two. Your Part in Our Economy
  
• Lesson Three. People Make the Economy Go!
  
• Lesson Four. Families Make the Economy Go!
  
• Lesson Five. Scarcity
  
• Lesson Ten. Resources in the School
  
• Lesson Eleven. Demand
  
• Lesson Twelve. Supply
  
• Lesson Thirteen. Prices Go Up
  
• Lesson Fifteen. We Depend on Each Other
  
• SIMULATION THREE. International Trade
  
• SIMULATION FOUR. Run a School Business
  

Egg-Bert: A Case Study of Sutherland's Food Service, Inc. for Students in the Early Grades

• Chapter 3: The Big-Wash Up

Ideas and Activities for Integrating Economic Concepts Into the Elementary Classroom

• LESSON THREE: Scarcity and Choices in Our Society

Kaleidoscope, USA

• Kids Town Club, The
  
• Puppet Show: A Job for Popo
  
• Yes and No Pockets
  
• Wearing Workers
  
• Profit Producers
  
• Interdependence Chain
  
• Presenting Lemonade
  
• Picturing Resources
  
• Making Mobiles
  
• Factory Fun
  
• Clip-A-Card Game
  
• The Money Goes Round
  
• Profit Producers
  
• Mr. Happy s Services
  
• Hungry Bear
  
• Scooping Up Production
  
• The Transportation Race
  
• The Picture Worm
  
• Econ Songs for Entrepreneurs
  

KinderEconomy+

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics- Teaching Strategies: K-2

• TWO. Consumer Reflections
  
• THREE. Foods Around the World
  
• FOUR. Learning Center: Winning Wants
  
• FIVE. Bulletin Board: People Movers
  
• SIX. Mystery Workers
  
• SEVEN. Gifts from Nature
  
• EIGHT. Producer Charades
  
• NINE. Learning Center: Producer Pigs
  
• SIXTEEN. An Interdependent Bunch
  
• SEVENTEEN. Spotlight on Specialists
  
• EIGHTEEN. The Baker Wants a Pair of Shoes
  
• NINETEEN. The Learning Center: School Connections
  
• TWENTY-ONE. His Barter is Worse Than His Bite!
  
• TWENTY-THREE. To Market, To Market
  
• TWENTY-FOUR. Puppet Show: Pinky's New Bow Tie
  
• TWENTY-FIVE. Bulletin Board: Teddy Bear Picnic
  

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics- Teaching Strategies: 3-4

• ONE: Everybody Wants Everything
  
• TWO: Service with a Smile
  
• SIX: Circles Within Circles
  

Play Dough Economics

• LESSON TWO: Production- How We Get the Goods and Services we Want
  
• LESSON FOUR: Opportunity Cost (Consumers)- The Best Alternative Not Chosen
  
• LESSON FIVE: Opportunity Cost (Producers)- Producers Have to Choose, Too
  
• LESSON SIX: Trade- Getting the Things We Want
  
• LESSON TEN: Saving and Investing- Planning for the Future
  

Puppet Economics

• LESSON 6: Creating the Script: Act 1
  
• LESSON 9: Puppet Construction
  
• LESSON 14: Workers Right and Left
  
• LESSON 19: Terrific Traders
  

Twin Purchase, A

Voyages of Columbus, The

• LESSON ONE: Early Trade Barriers
  
• LESSON TWO: Resources for the Voyage
  
• LESSON THREE: Technology and the Trip
  

Zooconomy: Zoo Decisions

Online: Homer Price (the Doughnuts)*

Homer's Uncle's newest capital resource, the doughnut machine, goes on a rampage making hundreds of doughnuts. Learn about economics: capital resources, increasing productivity, law of demand, quantity demanded, and Language Arts: using reference materials, oral expression, organizing and sequencing information. ©SPEC Publishing.

Online: The Road To Roota

Online: (Personal Finance) Why Do I Want All This Stuff?

(PDF Format) 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.

• TWO: People Use Resources to Produce What Other People Want
  
• FOUR: People's Wants Stimulate Production
  
• FIVE: In a Market Economy, the Forces of Supply and Demand Set the Prices at Which Exchanges Take Place
  

Choices & Changes: Human Capital and Entrepreneurship

• PART TWO: Producing a Product

Community Publishing Company, The

• Economics for Kids: Ideas for Teaching in the Elementary Grades
  
• Lesson Nine. Factors of Production: Natural Resources, Labor, Capital
  
• Lesson Ten. Resources in the School
  

Kids Town Club, The

• Picturing Resources

KinderEconomy+

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics- Teaching Strategies: 3-4

• ELEVEN: Those Golden Jeans
  
• FOURTEEN: Orange Juice Jubilee
  

Mini-Economy, The: Integrating Economics into the Elementary Curriculum

Play Dough Economics

• LESSON TWELVE: Market Price II - Changes in Supply and Demand

Puppet Economics

• LESSON 7: Resource Collectors
  
• LESSON 8: Production Necessities
  

Voyages of Columbus, The

• LESSON TWO: Resources for the Voyage

Zooconomy: Zoo Decisions

Children in the Marketplace

• ONE: People Live in a World of Relative Scarcity

Community Publishing Company, The

Economics for Kids: Ideas for Teaching in the Elementary Grades

• Lesson Eight. Opportunity Cost
  
• SIMULATION TWO. Breaking the Budget
  

Egg-Bert: A Case Study of Sutherland's Food Service, Inc. for Students in the Early Grades

• Chapter 1: Meet The Egg Family
  
• Chapter 2: From the Chicken to the Egg
  

Ideas and Activities for Integrating Economic Concepts Into the Elementary Classroom

• LESSON TWO: Opportunity Costs

Kaleidoscope, USA

Kids Town Club, The

KinderEconomy+

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics- Teaching Strategies: K-2

• TWELVE. Opportunities for Appreciation
  
• THIRTEEN. We Decide
  
• FOURTEEN. Learning Center: Choice Train
  
• TWENTY-FOUR. Puppet Show: Pinky's New Bow Tie
  
• TWENTY-FIVE. Bulletin Board: Teddy Bear Picnic
  

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics- Teaching Strategies: 3-4

• THREE: Wooden Opportunities
  
• FOUR: Olympic-Minded Decisions
  

Play Dough Economics

• LESSON FOUR: Opportunity Cost (Consumers)- The Best Alternative Not Chosen
  
• LESSON FIVE: Opportunity Cost (Producers)- Producers Have to Choose, Too
  

Puppet Economics

• LESSON 2: Lost Opportunities
  
• LESSON 11: Extension Activities
  

Zooconomy: Zoo Decisions

Economics and Children's Literature--Supplement 2

Online: Lesson based on "The Real McCoy"
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.

• EIGHT: Children in the Marketplace

Community Publishing Company, The

Dragons Decide

Economics for Kids: Ideas for Teaching in the Elementary Grades

• Lesson Three. People Make the Economy Go!
  
• SIMULATION ONE. Specialization
  
• SIMULATION FOUR. Run a School Business
  

Egg-Bert: A Case Study of Sutherland's Food Service, Inc. for Students in the Early Grades

• Chapter 2: From the Chicken to the Egg

Ideas and Activities for Integrating Economic Concepts Into the Elementary Classroom

• LESSON TEN: Our State Needs Help

Kids Town Club, The

• Yes and No Pockets
  
• Wearing Workers
  
• Interdependence Chain
  
• Presenting Lemonade
  
• Clip-A-Card Game
  

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics- Teaching Strategies: K-2

• SIXTEEN. An Interdependent Bunch
  
• SEVENTEEN. Spotlight on Specialists
  
• EIGHTEEN. The Baker Wants a Pair of Shoes
  
• NINETEEN. The Learning Center: School Connections
  
• TWENTY-FOUR. Puppet Show: Pinky's New Bow Tie
  

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics- Teaching Strategies: 3-4

• SEVEN: Let's Trade

Play Dough Economics

• LESSON EIGHT: Specialization- Making Production More Efficient

Puppet Economics

• LESSON 15: Teamwork!
  
• LESSON 17: Extension Activities
  
• LESSON 19: Terrific Traders
  

Online: Lesson based on "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

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. Economics and Children's Literature--Supplement 2. ©SPEC Publishing

(PDF Format) 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.

• TWO: People Use Resources to Produce What Other People Want

Choices & Changes: Human Capital and Entrepreneurship

• PART ONE: Creativity and Invention

Choices & Changes: Work, Human Resources, and Choices

• PART TWO: I Can Improve My Human Resources
  
• PART THREE: I Can Set and Reach My Goals
  

Community Publishing Company, The

• OVERVIEW
  
• LESSON EIGHT: Mini-Mall (Marketplace Simulation)
  
• LESSON NINE: Visiting a Business (Study Trip)
  
• LESSON TEN: The Pencil Choice (Classroom Activity)
  

Dragons Decide

Econ Song Book, The

Economics for Kids: Ideas for Teaching in the Elementary Grades

• Lesson Six. More Scarcity
  
• Lesson Seven. Choice
  
• SIMULATION TWO. Breaking the Budget
  

Egg-Bert: A Case Study of Sutherland's Food Service, Inc. for Students in the Early Grades

• Chapter 5: Future Eggs
  
• Chapter 1: Meet The Egg Family
  

Ideas and Activities for Integrating Economic Concepts Into the Elementary Classroom

• LESSON ONE: Fun in the Sun
  
• LESSON TWO: Opportunity Costs
  
• LESSON THREE: Scarcity and Choices in Our Society
  

Kids Town Club, The

• Yes and No Pockets
  
• Presenting Lemonade
  
• A Walk in the Park
  
• Sweetheart Wheels
  
• Picking Apples
  
• Scarcity Schoolbox
  
• Clip-A-Card Game
  

KinderEconomy+

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics- Teaching Strategies: 3-4

• THREE: Wooden Opportunities
  

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics- Teaching Strategies: K-2

• ELEVEN. Alligator Annie and the Scarcity Adventure
  
• TWELVE. Opportunities for Appreciation
  
• THIRTEEN. We Decide
  
• FOURTEEN. Learning Center: Choice Train
  
• FIFTEEN. Bulletin Board: Scarcity Balloon Trip
  
• TWENTY-FOUR. Puppet Show: Pinky's New Bow Tie
  
• TWENTY-FIVE. Bulletin Board: Teddy Bear Picnic
  

Mini-Economy, The: Integrating Economics into the Elementary Curriculum

• Integrating Economics into the Elementary Classroom

Play Dough Economics

• LESSON FOUR: Opportunity Cost (Consumers)- The Best Alternative Not Chosen
  
• LESSON FIVE: Opportunity Cost (Producers)- Producers Have to Choose, Too
  

Puppet Economics

• LESSON 2: Lost Opportunities
  
• LESSON 1: Charting Puppet Decisions
  

Twin Purchase, A

Zooconomy: Zoo Decisions

Children in the Marketplace

• EIGHT: Children in the Marketplace

Energy and Economics: An Activities Book

• ACTIVITY EIGHTEEN: Energy and Taxes
  
• ACTIVITY TWENTY: Energy and the Environment
  

Master Curriculum Guides in Economics- Teaching Strategies: 3-4

• TEN: A Taxing Situation
  

Mini-Economy, The: Integrating Economics into the Elementary Curriculum
I

• Integrating Economics into the Elementary Classroom
  

Economics and Children's Literature--Supplement 2

Online: Lesson based on "The Real McCoy"
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.

Economics and Children's Literature

• Grades 1-3: From Path to Highway: The Story of the Boston Post Road
  
• Grades 4-6: Houses of Snow, Skin and Bones
  
• Grades 4-6: The Pushcart War
  

Kaleidoscope

Voyages of Columbus