Online elementary economics
lessons
Lesson:The Tortilla Factory
Grades: K-3
Concepts: Productive resources,, Natural resources, Human resources, Capital
resources, Intermediate goods
From: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
http://www.stlouisfed.org/education_resources/assets/lesson_plans/TortillaFactory.pdf
Lesson: Money, Money, Honey Bunny
Grades K-3
Concepts: Goods, Saving, Services
From: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
http://www.philadelphiafed.org/education/teachers/lesson-plans/MoneyMoneyHoneyBunny.pdf
Lesson: The Pickle Patch Bathtub
Grades K-3
Concepts: Opportunity Cost, Saving
From: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
http://www.philadelphiafed.org/education/teachers/lesson-plans/pickle-patch-bathtub.pdf
Lesson: Potato, A Tale of the Great Depression
Grades K-3
Concepts: Barter, Consumers, Goods, Money, Wants
From: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
http://www.stlouisfed.org/education_resources/assets/lesson_plans/Potato.pdf
Lesson (Grades 1-3): The Goat in the Rug
Concepts: producers, resources (natural, human, capital), intermediate goods, language
arts
From Economics and Children's Literature
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lit-goat.htm
Lesson (Grades 1-3): If you Give a Mouse a Cookie
Concepts: unlimited wants, goods, services, language arts
From Economics and Children's Literature
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/mouse.htm
Lesson (Grades 1-3): Busiest People Ever
Concepts: unlimited wants, goods, services, language arts
From Economics and Children's Literature
http://www.umsl.edu/~econed/busiestpeople.htm
Lesson: Saturday Sancocho
Grades: 3-5
Concepts: Barter, Coincidence of Wants, Money
From: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
http://www.philadelphiafed.org/education/teachers/lesson-plans/saturday-sancocho.pdf
Lesson (Grades 3-6): Teaching Economics Using Lunch Money by Andrew
Clements.
Concepts: banking and interest, mass production, competition,
opportunity cost, productive resources.
http://cob.jmu.edu/econed/lunchmoney/
Lesson (Grades 3-6): Harvesting Hope:
The Story of Cesar Chavez
Concepts: Productive Resources, Opportunity Cost
From: LibrarySparks online Web Resources
http://www.highsmith.com/pdf/librarysparks/2009/lsp_aug09_lib_lessons.pdf
Lesson: Kermit the Hermit
Concepts: goods, services, choices, spending, saving, income, interest
Personal Finance Lessons in Children's Literature (Online)
http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/Kermit/index.asp
Lesson: A Gift for Mama
Concepts: income, saving, short-term goals
http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/Mama/index.asp
Lesson: Mr. Popper's Penguins
Concepts: opportunity cost, credit, credit limit, interest or finance charge, language
arts, geography, science math
http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/Penguins/index.asp
Lesson: The Leaves in October
Concepts: saving, income, spending, opportunity cost, interest
http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/Leaves/index.asp
Lesson (Grades 4-6): Homer Price (The Doughnuts)
Concepts: capital resources, increasing productivity, law of demand, quantity demand,
language arts
From Economics and Children's Literature
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/litdough.htm
Lesson (Grades 4-6): The Great Brain
Concepts: economic incentives, language arts
From Economics and Children's Literature
http://www.umsl.edu/~econed/greatbrain.htm
Lesson (Grades 4-6): The Real McCoy
Concepts: increasing productivity, patent, language arts
From Economics and Children's Literature
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/realmccoy.htm
Lesson (Grades 4-8): The Colonial Worker's Web
Concepts: goods, services, producers, consumers, self-sufficiency, specialization,
interdependence, barter
http://www.econ-fun.com/sample_lessons.htm
Lesson: The Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money
Concepts: spending, goods, services, income, saving, savings, interest
http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/Bears/index.asp
Lesson: Bingo Brown and the Language of Love
Concepts: credit, credit cards, service credit, interest
http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/Bingo/index.asp
Lesson: The Hundred Penny Box
Concepts: saving, savings, interest, interest rate, compounding
http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/Penny/index.asp
Lesson: Meet Molly, An American Girl
Concepts: saving, spending, opportunity cost
http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/Molly/index.asp
Lesson: Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars
Concepts: credit, debt, saving
http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/Gazillion/index.asp
Lesson: Tarantula Shoes
Concepts: spending, saving, earning, opportunity cost, trade-offs
http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/TarantulaShoes/index.asp
Lesson: Yard Sale
Concepts: spending, goods, services, price, advertising, choice, alternatives, criteria, opportunity cost
http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/YardSale/index.asp
Economics and Geography Lessons for 32 Children's Books:
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/Econ_Geog.html