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Educational worksheets from Globally Taught's Economics Unit for Kids on natural resources, currency, global trade, and supply and demand, with colored markers, scissors, and a highlighter on a light blue surface.

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Dig into elementary economics with this highly engaging economics unit.

Our Elementary Economics Unit has everything you need to save time and skyrocket engagement during social studies.

Our global economics unit includes 12 lessons and nearly 200 pages of activities, projects, games, and crafts to learn about elementary economics.

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Elementary Economics Unit – 12 Economics Lessons about Supply & Demand, Goods & Services, Wants & Needs, & more
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What’s Included?

✦ A 3-week-long comprehensive economics unit for elementary students

✦ Over 200 pages of lessons, reading passages, projects, activities, and games

✦ 1 ZIP file organized into 12 lessons by topic

    • 10 Elementary Economics Lesson Plans

    • 10 Engaging Informational Texts

    • Learning Objectives and Materials Lists

    • 30 Anchor Charts with a Vocabulary Reinforcement Worksheet

    • 45 Engaging Practice Activities

    • Crafts, Games, Puzzles, Songs, and more!

    • High-Investment Project Choice Board

    • 12 Ready-to-Use Assessments, plus a Unit Assessment

    • Answer Keys and Student Samples

    • Unit Assessment with Answer Key

    • Unit Overview

    • State Standards Alignment

Preview the Unit

  • Lesson 1: What is Economics?

  • Lesson 2: Wants and Needs

  • Lesson 3: Goods and Services

  • Lesson 4: Producers and Consumers

  • Lesson 5: Earning Money

  • Lesson 6: Supply and Demand

  • Lesson 7: Opportunity Cost

  • Lesson 8: Budgeting

  • Lesson 9: Global Trade

  • Lesson 10: Natural Resources

  • Lesson 11: Taxes and Tariffs

  • Lesson 12: Business Plan Project

  • Unit Bonus: Unit Assessment

    Total Pages 200 pages

    Answer Key Included with Rubric

    Teaching Duration 3 Weeks

Design a Business Plan Project from Globally Taught's Economics Unit for Kids, with pens and scissors on a light blue surface, including a business plan checklist, budget form, and planning templates.
Educational materials from Globally Taught's Economics Unit for Kids about markets, including a worksheet on how markets work, a sorting activity for consumers and producers, and a pair of scissors, and pencil on a light blue and white background.
Collection of educational worksheets from Globally Taught's Economics Unit for Kids on various topics like natural resources, world currencies, budgeting, services, and cars, featuring colorful text and illustrations.

Here are a few of the MANY economics skills that your students will learn:

✅ Learn how supply, demand, and price can explain events in the community and nation.

✅ Understand how natural resources and global trade affect the goods and services people can access.

✅ Practice creative and critical thinking skills with engaging projects.

✅ Know who makes up economic systems, including families, workers, governments, and businesses.

✅ Learn how to manage money through saving, spending, and budgeting.

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FAQs

Q: What grades is this unit for?

This unit is designed for grades 2-4, although we've had positive reviews all the way through 8th grade.

Q: How much does it cost?

The unit is $28.00, but you can get 15% off with the code ECONOMICS15.

Q: How long is the unit?

It includes 12 lesson plans, each about 50 minutes long.

Q: Where does it fit in my curriculum?

This Economics Unit can be taught at any time during the year.

Q: What kinds of activities are included?

There are many fun activities, crafts, and projects for you to pick and choose from. Students will design their own business plans and plan vacations while staying within a budget. They'll research natural resources and goods produced in your region. Each activity is designed to build economics skills that will support them in other subjects.

Q: How much prep is this resource?

I've done the heavy lifting by creating the teaching content and breaking concepts down in a kid-friendly way. The unit includes:

  • Step-by-step lesson plans

  • Reading passages to teach the content

  • Worksheets, activities, crafts, games, and projects to practice the concepts

  • Anchor charts

  • Rubrics, answer keys, and student samples

  • Exclusive Unit Bonuses: Unit Pacing Guide, Unit Overview, Standards Alignment Guide, Unit Assessment

  • Everything you need (except craft supplies)

Q: Will my students like this unit?

There are a lot of boring, disjointed economics lessons out there that make students think that economics isn't necessary or fun to learn. This unit flips that script! Students will get to engage with real-world economics problems in a kid-friendly way.

Q: Can this resource be used with Google Slides?

The content is taught through reading passages and hands-on activities. It's designed to be taught by diving in and using the skills right away, so it's not best for a Google Slides 'lecture' format.

Q: If I buy the full curriculum, will I get this unit for free?

Yes! If you purchase our full-year curriculum, this unit is included. Save 40% off when you buy our full-year social studies curriculum.