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Teach your students the vital life skill of distinguishing between needs and wants using these practical worksheets. An ideal resource for educators aiming to make budgeting, critical thinking, and decision-making interactive and versatile. Whether utilized as a workbook or individual worksheets, the scaffolded activities cater to various learning styles. With straightforward checklists, cut-and-paste activities, and writing tasks, these worksheets are designed to meet the diverse needs of all your students.

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• Real Product Photos
• 4 Workbook Covers
• Teaching & Practice Worksheets
• 32 Different Worksheets
• 4 Extension Ideas
• Answer Key

TOTAL:

⭐ 32 WORKSHEETS WITH 200 QUESTIONS

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Cover Options:

• 4 cover options that students can color (if you would like to use this resource as a workbook)

Teaching Posters/ Worksheets:

• 1 poster teaching needs and wants.
• 1 poster with the title "Do you need it or want it?" featuring 2 questions.
• 1 checking worksheet with an example

Worksheets:

1. Checking Worksheets: (check off if the item is a need or want)

• • 3 worksheets with only words.
  • 3 worksheets with words and pictures.
  • 3 worksheets with only pictures. (these items are the same as the worksheets with words and pictures)

2. Cut and Paste Worksheets:

• • 4 worksheets where students sort needs and wants.

3. List Worksheets:

• • 1 worksheet where students list their needs and wants.
  • 1 worksheet where students identify and list a given person’s needs.
  • 1 worksheet where students identify and list a given person’s wants.

4. Fill-in-the-Blanks Worksheet:

• • 1 worksheet filling in the blanks.

5. Scenario Worksheets (Same Scenarios, 4 total):

• • 2 worksheets prompting to write "need or want."
  • 2 worksheets with checkboxes for needs and wants.

6. Budget Worksheets:

• • 1 worksheet where they identify and highlight the wants from a given one-person budget.
  • 1 worksheet where students identify needs and wants and answer questions about one person's budget.
  • 1 worksheet where they identify and highlight needs from a given two-person budget.
  • 1 worksheet where students identify needs and wants and answer questions about two-person budget.

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Learning about the Stock Market using Microsoft Excel lets middle schoolers see how an investment can grow and change, as well as the importance of thorough research. Utilizing Microsoft Excel, students “purchase” and track several stocks over a 6 week period. They have the opportunity to sell stocks or hold them, depending on the market research they do. Using a template they create in Microsoft Excel, they will track the increases and declines in their stock investments and see how much they can make their initial investment grow during the 6 weeks. This lesson is intended for beginning Excel users and was created using Microsoft Excel 2013. It is easily adaptable for different versions.

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

Files Included with this Unit

* Unit Overview & Pacing Guide

* Teacher & Student Resources

* 4 lessons incorporating reading, research, and creation of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to track stock purchases, gains and losses for a 6 week period (lessons include rubrics)

* Excel Templates and Samples (including all formulas)

* Tutorial for Students

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Complete Microeconomics Unit Bundle!

Covers four lessons about Demand, Supply, Prices, and Market Structures.

• Includes 60 slides
• vocab and note packet
• multiple activities
• color by number assessments

Bonus File: What else do I do? This has a few extra idea and links about things that I implement into my class but can't share because they come from our textbook.

Macroeconomics Powerpoint, Vocab, & Note Packet.

• Four lessons -

  • GDP & Poverty
  • Business Cycle
  • Taxes & Government Spending
  • The Federal Reserve

• Fully editable so you can customize to your specific class.

• Each slide has presenter notes to help.

• 41 vocab terms

• Doodle page included

4 Fundamentals, 5 Microeconomics, 4 Macroeconomics color by number activities.

• Each activity has a questionnaire page and a coloring sheet.
• Keys included for everything!
• DIY sheet where you can make your own questions to match your content!

This bundle includes a simple unit 1 powerpoint presentation about the fundamentals of economics along with a vocab and note packet. Fully editable.

Jobs, careers and work are highlighted and celebrated on Labor Day. This bundle of educational puzzles will open children's eyes to the many types of careers available to them, and illuminates the value that everyone brings to the community – whether they work in retail services or classrooms, on farms, or even in the entertainment business.

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This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the economy of the United States of America!

THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:

• The Economy of the United States Passage (3 pages)
• 15 Multiple Choice Questions
• 5 Short Answer Questions
• 9 Choice Board Extension Activities
• Answer Keys
• Link to Digital Version

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This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the economy of Latin America!

THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:

• The Economy of Latin America Passage (3 pages)
• 15 Multiple Choice Questions
• 5 Short Answer Questions
• 9 Choice Board Extension Activities
• Answer Keys
• Link to Digital Version

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This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the economy of Southwest Asia, including countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, and Turkey.

THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:

• The Economy of Southwest Asia Passage (3 pages)
• 15 Multiple Choice Questions
• 5 Short Answer Questions
• 9 Choice Board Extension Activities
• Answer Keys
• Link to Digital Version

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This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the economy of Southeast Asia, including countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines.

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• The Economy of Southeast Asia Passage (3 pages)
• 15 Multiple Choice Questions
• 5 Short Answer Questions
• 9 Choice Board Extension Activities
• Answer Keys
• Link to Digital Version

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This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the social studies discipline of economics!

THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:

• Introduction to the Study of Economics Passage (3 pages)
• 15 Multiple Choice Questions
• 5 Short Answer Questions
• 9 Choice Board Extension Activities
• Answer Keys
• Link to Digital Version

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This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the economy of North Africa, including countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.

THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:

• The Economy of North Africa Passage (3 pages)
• 15 Multiple Choice Questions
• 5 Short Answer Questions
• 9 Choice Board Extension Activities
• Answer Keys
• Link to Digital Version

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This passage and assortment of activities are an engaging and accessible way for your students to strengthen their knowledge of the economy of Europe!

THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:

• The Economy of Europe Passage (3 pages)
• 15 Multiple Choice Questions
• 5 Short Answer Questions
• 9 Choice Board Extension Activities
• Answer Keys
• Link to Digital Version

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This resource is in ENGLISH! If you're looking for this document in FRENCH, please click here!

This 38-page resource has everything you need to lead a Dragon's Den or Shark Tank in your middle school classroom!

This resource begins with 10 slides that explain the project rundown and is then followed by oodles of activities, mentor texts and rubrics:

• "What Interests Me?" (A brainstorming activity)
• "Improving an Experience" (A strategy to find an idea)
• "My Prototype: My Vision" (A visual activity on drawing and describing the "idea")
• "Show & Tell" (An activity on using the five senses)
• "The Pros and Cons of our Idea" (An activity on knowing if the idea is a good one)
• "What's the BIG Idea?" (An activity on finding the problem and solution)
• "The Advantages of my Product" (An activity on using persuasion to sell)
• "Who's your Audience?" (An activity on discovering your demographic)
• "Advertising and Social Media" (An activity on visual marketing on social media)
• "My Billboard" (An activity on billboard-style marketing)
• "My Company Jingle" (A simple activity on building a jingle that fits the brand)
• "It's All in the Display!" (An activity on designing the way the product is displayed)
• "The Whole Package" (An activity on designing the packaging for the product)
• "My Business Plan" (An activity on organizing information for the pitch)
• "What Would you Say?!" (An activity to help students plan their answers to tough questions in the den!)
• "Anticipating Potential Questions" (An activity to anticipate Dragon questions)
• "My Pitch - From Beginning to End" (A 2-page template to plan out a pitch)
• "Tropical Adventures Greenhouses" (A fictional 1-page pitch with 1 page of questions)
• "What's Good?" (A fictional 1-page pitch with 1 page of questions)
• "Pitch Evaluation" (Rubric for assessment)
• "Group Work Evaluation" (Rubric for assessment)
• "Peer Evaluation - Pitch Notes" (To facilitate note-taking during pitches from their peers).

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Ignite middle schoolers' curiosity with our inquiry-based project on imports, exports, energy, and electricity. Cross-curricular and transdisciplinary, it fosters critical thinking through reading, writing, and research. Transform learning with a dynamic, comprehensive experience!

Take a look at the preview to see first-hand what you can expect in this mega-resource that was a labour of love for me!

This 146-page unit will provide you with content, activities, projects, rubrics, simulations and discussion prompts necessary to engage your students for upwards of 2 months in a series of learnings, research and projects which will ultimately have them creating solutions for real world problems relating to food waste, energy sources, importing and exporting and the choices we make relative to our consumption.

Following a cross-curricular approach, I include step-by-step details, thorough lesson plans that will have you and your students deeply exploring some big concepts, connecting subjects, digging deeper, and thinking critically about sustainability and the future of our planet.

Within this mega-resource, you'll find two parts:

• A 57-page teaching guide including a brief overview of the unit, the outcomes you'll be covering, detailed and thorough lesson plans for each day, all assignments, graphic organizers, stations, debates, simulations, answer keys, and rubrics. Many additional projects are recommended and explained for each of the major sections in addition to the lesson plans I provide. It includes printables for all games and activities, research, projects, and success criteria.

• I also guide you on using the second part to this resource:

• A 91-slide teaching document which includes all content, vocabulary, games and concepts relating to:

• Food waste in Canada and the effects on the economy and the environment:

• Perishability of food items.

• A close look at expiries and "best before" dates.

• A quick game on perishability.

• Recommended film and videos.

• Importing and exporting in Canada and its impacts on the economy and the environment:

• Connection between food waste and imports.

• The importance of shopping locally.

• A trivia game on natural resources which are either imported or exported and a breakdown of the destinations of each.

• A segway into imported and exported energy sources - and why we export some of our energies out-of-country and overseas.

• Energy sources in Canada and its impacts on the economy and the environment:

• Why do Canadians export their energy?

• The good, the bad, and the ugly of energy consumption and our abuse with overconsumption.

• The laws and transformations of energy.

• An in-depth look at the different forms of energy, where the energy comes from and how they're used.

• An in-depth look into renewable energy sources.

• An in-depth look into our planet's atmospheric layers, our ozone layer, and the different characteristics of each.

• A look into protests and laws that protect our environment - and a call to action.

Interested in testing out an inquiry- and project-based approach, but don't know where to start? Here are some suggestions for you!

• Dragon's Den - Dans l'oeil du dragon!
• Mon espèce en voie de disparition
• Space Food!

For goodness sakes, don't forget to have fun!

Kaitlyn.

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What type of economy do we live in? How does it affect our way of life, what we own, where we work, how we obtain resources, and how goods and services are produced? This resource will help your students understand the different types of economies and how each plays a role in cultures around the world.

Understanding economic systems — Traditional economy, market economy, command economy, and mixed economy — can influence the way we live, work, and obtain resources. Working in groups, students will engage themselves in completing task cards after a PowerPoint or Keynote introductory presentation. Through the task cards, students will understand the ways in which different economic systems work and then will be able to apply their knowledge to various economic scenarios while playing the class game of Monopoly. Finally, students will show what they have learned by filling out Economics Exit Cards.

WHAT'S INCLUDED;

• Teacher-Detailed Guided Instructions
• Introductory PowerPoint or Keynote Presentation & Listening Guide (Both versions included)
• Why Study Economies 5 Task Cards (Group collaboration)
• Group/Family Assignment Cards
• Monopoly Economics Game Instructions, Game Cards, and Resources
• Exit Tickets

OBJECTIVES:

• The learner will understand the four main economic systems.
• The learner will be able to identify different country’s economic systems.
• The learner will work with team members to complete Economic Systems Task Cards
• The learner will analyze various economic situations and apply learned information through participation in an Economies Monopoly class game.

RESOURCES:

• World Economies Introductory PowerPoint
• World Economic Student Listening Guide PowerPoint
• Video Capabilities: Introductory YouTube Video (Optional)
• Task Cards, 1 Copy Per Group
• Economies Monopoly Cards & Instruction
• Money Teacher Sheet, Print Multiples
• Money Student Sheet, 1 Per Group
• Family Assignment Cards
• 1 Die Per Group or 1 Large Class Foam Die (Not Included)
• Product Sheets, 1 Per Group
• World Economic Exit Cards

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population, population ecology, population growth, population pyramid, population density

Get students involved in the learning process through this lesson China's Historical One Child Policy: Creating a Population Density Cartogram. Students will not only learn about the cause and effect of China's One Child Policy of 1979, but will strengthen their knowledge of map creation and reading skills, specific to a cartogram.

Working in collaborative groups, team members will participate in a group reading activity an article on China’s 1979 One-Child Policy Act entitled Too Many In The Family. This article will address the history behind the law, the policy incentives, disobeying the policy, and expectations of the rule. Students to express their thoughts on the topic after the reading and use high-level thinking skills.

In addition, students will have fun collaborating, examining and learning how to read cartograms by creating their own cartogram that reflects the current population of China. This brings the past into the present. Students will need graph paper, colored pencils, a map, and a calculator for this activity.

While this lesson focuses on the original One-Child Policy Act of 1979, there have been additional child policy acts passed since 1979 — the first one being the 2015 Two-Child Policy Act, following the 2021 Three-Child Policy Act. To learn more about these, click on this link: One Child, Two Child, Three-Child, or More

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This lesson is easy enough for 5th graders to understand yet works well with students up to grade 12. Modifications can be made as needed.

Understanding the Four Economic Industries + Community Service Project

This cooperative learning economics industry and factor of production lesson addresses the four economic industries: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and quaternary Industries. A nation's economy can be divided into various sectors. Understanding these is important in understanding how our nation's economy works. Your students will have fun learning a lot about these industries!

A community service project is incorporated into this lesson. Students bring in food items such as cereal, canned goods, or anything that can be donated to a community food pantry. Make arrangements with the local food pantry to drop off or pick up the items. The items will be used for the lesson.

Students will use higher-level thinking skills to demonstrate how a product can begin in a Primary Industry and end up in the Quaternary Industry, and how each industry can play a vital part in how products are made and distributed.

This lesson includes:

• Detailed teacher instructions
• A PowerPoint on the four economic industries
• Short reading assignment: "From Where Did Your Product Come?"
• Authentic learning experience using real food to understand the four

economic industries.

• Graphic organizer
• Incorporated community service project.

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Through this problem-solving activity, students will enjoy and learn about
Africa's environmental problems and issues, while developing higher-level thinking skills. This activity is centered around students, working in cooperative teams of two, to identify environmental issues and solutions to the issues that lead to the wide-spread poverty concerns throughout Africa.

This was used with middle school students of various learning abilities.

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• Detailed Teacher Instructions
• Optional links to a video and autobiographical short story of a teen in Africa,
• 2-Page printable problem-solving activity sheet
• Printable map
• Practice and procedure activity (Teacher-guided)
• Grading rubric

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