Marketing Lesson Plans

Students study the workings of the Stock Market and use spreadsheets to monitor the progress of four stocks. In this stock market and spreadsheet lesson, students receive background knowledge about the stock market. They choose four stocks to follow, they watch the activity of the stock over time, and use EditGrid online to enter information in spreadsheet format.

Second graders experience the roles of producers and consumers. The crafts in this market may be easily tied in with winter multicultural holidays. They can purchase gifts for their family members at the market.

Ninth graders explore the different types of simple machines and draw them. In this english lesson plan, 9th graders write a paper about their uses in everyday life. They create a magazine ad to market their product.

Use model based inquiry to help your students understand the concepts behind marketing, advertisements, and competition in the consumer market. They will come up with a product they want to sell, use the Internet to answer questions about marketing, think about what influences their customers' behavior, then create an ad for their product. This instructional activity really engages students in the critical thinking process.

Students discover the concepts of Free Trade and Single Market. In this economics lesson, students role play an economy in class. This lesson includes several handouts, assessment, 4 interactive/hands-on activities, and other materials needed to complete the lesson. 

Students investigate the current financial market.  In the economics lesson, students explore savings and borrowing, financial markets, mutual funds, and the stock market.  The four part lesson is designed to help students to become knowledgeable and informed consumers.   

Readers make personal connections to Saturday Market by Patricia Grossman and also answer comprehension questions while reading the book. Comparing and contrasting the different characters in a Venn Diagram leads to a kinesthetic activity involving point of view. The culminating activity, with rubric included, involves creating an advertisement for a market product.

Second graders understand that prices change. For this business, price and labor lesson, 2nd graders define the words market and price. Students read Arthur's Funny Money and answer questions related to earning and spending money. Students complete a worksheet about Arthur's bike wash.

Students explore market places. In this Thailand culture literacy and social studies instructional activity, students brainstorm things they have seen at a marketplace.  Students view photographs of marketplaces in Thailand and discuss their observations with a partner, comparing and contrasting the photographs to the marketplaces in the United States.

Second graders build skills in communicating effectively while shopping in an open-air market. They identify, describe and classfiy different foods in the Spanish. Students express their likes and dislikes using the food vocabulary. They ask and answer questions about their food preferences, and graph their favorite foods.