Grades K-2, 3-5
Standards
Concepts
Teach your students about supply chains. In this video a young woman starts her own business bedazzling cell phone cases and must figure out how to buy large quantities of rhinestones and make a greater quantity of cases to meet demand. This video can be shown along side the lessons from the Entrepreneurship Economics publication.
CEE’s Entrepreneurship Economics publication introduces students to entrepreneurship through a resource market simulation, which demonstrates how entrepreneurship promotes economic activity and benefits society. The book and ebook are available for purchase at the CEE Store.
Related Resources
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Key Concepts: Goods and Services, Productive Resources, Saving…
Grades K-2, 3-5
Using Children’s Literature to Teach About Economics and Enterprising Women
Teach both Women's History and foundational concepts via the lives of diverse, inspirational figures.
Key Concepts: Entrepreneurs, Opportunity Cost, Scarcity
Lesson
Grades K-2, 3-5
Goods & Services (Lightning Round)
In this economics activity, you will learn about goods and services via drag and drop classification.
Key Concepts: Consumers, Goods and Services
Activity
Grades K-2
Matching Goods and Services
In this economics activity, students will match key terms with the appropriate pictures.
Key Concepts: Consumers, Goods and Services, Producers
10 mins
Activity