Economics Activities (by date, oldest first)

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.

BUNDLE & SAVE: Budgeting Bundle

WHAT'S INCLUDED?

• 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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This is a NO PREP, print and go BUNDLE!

This bundle includes 4 resources.

• 69 different worksheets
• 648 total questions

Separately, these five resources would cost $24.00 Buy them as a BUNDLE and pay $20.00.

This bundle includes:

Needs & Wants

• 21 different sheets with 162 questions
• Teacher answer key

Income & Expense

• 20 different sheets with 222 questions
• Teacher answer key

Budgeting Unit 1

• 14 different worksheets with 160 questions
• Teacher answer key

Budgeting Unit 2

• 14 worksheets with 104 questions
• Teacher answer key

The first two resources helps students to learn about needs and wants and income & expenses and identify the difference between them. Students then apply their learned knowledge to a variety of questions and activities.

The two budgeting resources ask students use their learned knowledge of needs, wants, income and expenses to identify these items in monthly Bank Statements/ budgets. Students will practice identifying and calculating the amount of money needed for a desired expense (ex. Item or trip) and calculating how much money will need to be saved each month in order to attain the desired expense. Students will also examine the given budgets to calculate one - three individuals' total income, expenses, money saved, and identify additional ways for individuals to save. Students will also calculate weekly, monthly and yearly salary or expenses based off the given budget.

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Three self grading macroeconomic mazes! A multiple choice maze over GDP. An image puzzle maze over the Business Cycle. And a larger maze combining both previous mazes with additional questions about the Fed.

Mazes are created in Google Sheets. The download will allow you to make your own copy of the maze. Modification of questions or answers isn't possible because of the coding.

This includes 5 different demand and supply activities with keys included. Each activity has a front and back side of work. Fully editable.

• Simple Demand Curve
• Shift in Demand
• Shift in Supply
• Simple Graph Practice
• Complex Graph Practice

Content that students will need to know... Graph creation based on a schedule. Shifts in demand and supply based on the acronyms BITER and PETS. Price Ceiling, Price Floor, Surplus, Shortage, Equilibrium price and quantity. Multiple Demand and Supply Curves.

Play a fun dice rolling, team building, island exploring, interactive game with students that help them learn about the concepts of scarcity and decision-making!

Students will pick items, decide how to spend their day, and compete to see who can survive the longest and build the most things. But beware, sometimes exploring the island won't get them the results they want.

I hope you enjoy this version of the classic deserted island Economics Scarcity game. I love board games and D&D so I wanted to include some of those concepts and have the choices that students make much more meaningful.

The mechanics of the game are built around a regular six-sided die so that it is easily accessible by everyone.

Includes a welcome page. How to play page. Rules page. Example round page. Trackers for the player and base along with their journal. A google form that walks them through their dice rolls. Island Map. And post activity questions.

Macroeconomics Color by Number Activities!

• Four unique questionnaire pages, 10 questions per page.

  • Content: GDP & Poverty, Business Cycle, Taxes and Government Spending, The Federal Reserve

• Four color by number sheets

• Keys included for the questionnaire and the color by number

• DIY page to be able to create and match to your own content!

• Can be used digitally with something like notability or printable.

Four color by number activities for a fundamentals intro to economics unit. Editable page to create your own questions. Topics included basic principles, PPFs, Economic Systems, and American Free Enterprise.

Contains the questionnaire, coloring sheet, and answer keys. Also included is a blank page that you can create your own questions for each activity.

Each page takes about 15 minutes for students to answer questions and then color.

5 Macroeconomic Activities. Each activity is one page, front and back side. Each activity (except the research one) has a KEY included as well as a teacher page about how I usually implement.

• GDP - what is included?
• GDP - Calculating it based on the expenditure approach
• Business Cycle - Drawing it and matching recession / expansion indicators
• CPI & Inflation - Using prices and CPI, calculate the rate of inflation and then compare prices for a movie ticket, car, and gallon of milk
• Unemployment - short research project with four questions students will answer

Macroeconomics Escape Room!

Have a fun review of content with these "Government Leaked" documents about macroeconomics. Students will use critical thinking and their knowledge of content to solve 6 different puzzles.

No locks? No problem! This escape can use actual locks OR you use the printable locks in the puzzles and add them to boxes or doors OR just have students write down the answer! Flexible for however you want to use it.

Keys included!

Puzzles over CPI, GDP, Business Cycle, Unemployment, Fed Tools.

Timing when I have run it in class is about 40 minutes. This could increase or decrease depending on the amount of clues I give or not. Some groups have finished as fast as 25 min, some as slow as 50.

This is an intro to economics activity I use in class. It helps students understand the concepts of scarcity and having to make economic choices.

Includes steps for students, the zoo page and animal selections, example zoo/answer key, and a teacher road map to help.

21 Editable Economic Bellringer Questions! Questions are designed to go with some general topics.

Fundamentals - scarcity, opportunity cost, PPF, circular flow model, economic systems

Micro - demand, supply, prices

Macro - GDP, poverty, CPI calculation, business cycle, taxes and government spending, the Fed

Four color by number activities for a microeconomics unit. Four Editable pages to create your own questions. Topics Demand, Supply, Prices, and Market Structures

Contains the questionnaire, coloring sheet, and answer keys. Also included is a blank page that you can create your own questions for each activity.

Each page takes about 15 minutes for students to answer questions and then color.

Four editable activities for a Unit 1 Intro to economics. There is a build a zoo activity related to scarcity. Production Possibilities Frontier practice questions. An economic systems Maze review. And a Podcast questionnaire about extreme economic systems. Each activity has an introduction/steps sheet, student activity sheet, key, and road map about how I implement it.

Microeconomics color by number activity. Designed as a valentines day activity but you could use it whenever! Final page is a DIY sheet you can modify.

Looking for a short simple semester of economics? This is it!

3 Units | Fundamentals, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics

Each unit includes editable powerpoint slides and vocab/note packet, activities for each lesson, color by number assessments that could be made into quizzes, bell ringer questions and more!

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.

Does this take a full semester? No, not as created. Most econ classes have a personal finance unit or international unit as well. This bundle would last until the last 4 weeks of the semester, leaving one months time for an additional unit or projects. This assumes you are also doing a review day or two, and test day.

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This simple unit bundle for macroeconomics includes a Powerpoint presentation (presenter notes included), Vocab and Note packet, Activities, and Color by Number and self grading mazes as Formative assessments, and an Escape Room!

Four topics / lessons - GDP & Poverty, Business Cycle, Taxes & Government Spending, The Federal Reserve

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.

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.

This bundle includes vocab and note packet, powerpoint slides, activities, and color by number assessments for four lessons (intro to econ, what is economics, economic systems, american free enterprise system).

It takes five to six, 90 minute blocks to work through everything in the bundle. The format is designed to do key vocab, then powerpoint lecture, then activity, then color by number assessment/quiz. I sometimes use formal quizzes for the assessment and make the color by number warm up activities.

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.

10 total activities for you to use in the classroom. Each activity is print ready and includes full answer keys.

5 Microeconomic demand and supply activities with keys included. Each activity has a front and back side of work. Fully editable.

• Simple Demand Curve
• Shift in Demand
• Shift in Supply
• Simple Graph Practice
• Complex Graph Practice

Content that students will need to know... Graph creation based on a schedule. Shifts in demand and supply based on the acronyms BITER and PETS. Price Ceiling, Price Floor, Surplus, Shortage, Equilibrium price and quantity. Multiple Demand and Supply Curves.

5 Macroeconomic Activities. Each activity is one page, front and back side. Each activity (except the research one) has a KEY included as well as a teacher page about how I usually implement.

• GDP - what is included?
• GDP - Calculating it based on the expenditure approach
• Business Cycle - Drawing it and matching recession / expansion indicators
• CPI & Inflation - Using prices and CPI, calculate the rate of inflation and then compare prices for a movie ticket, car, and gallon of milk
• Unemployment - short research project with four questions students will answer

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!