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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Internet Pizza Server - Pizza Simulation

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students simulate going to a pizza restaurant, ordering a pizza, and determining whether a small, medium, large, or family size pizza is a "better-buy." Students calculate the price/per/topping and determine whether this price is "fair"
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's the Price?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders learn about price and comparative shopping. In this price and comparative shopping activity, 4th graders read Amy Axelrod's, Pigs Go To Market: Fun with Math and Shopping. They use the book to investigate the meaning of...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Test Your Speaking And Listening Skills: A Fair Price?

For Students 5th - 6th
In this consumer awareness worksheet, students look at a shopping list and write what is a fair price for each item and how much is the maximum they would be willing to pay. Kids discuss their lists and may visit stores to see if their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Positioning Your Firm

For Teachers 11th - 12th
In this vocational worksheet, students write position statements about products they could market including a description of the niches their firms could fill.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pricing Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the principles companies use to price their problems. They discover the difference between cost based and market based pricing. They identify other factors that go into pricing decisions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Year Book Page Special Shape Collage

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars design a collage of pictures for a yearbook that make a shape. They determine the area of the shape and the price of putting the collage in the yearbook.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Running a School Bakery

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore marketing concepts while producing food items to sell.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Wacky Water World

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders calculate a system of equations to find the best ticket price for a ticket at a water park. They explain how the equations helped them make their decision on the best price.
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Activity
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Demand, Supply, and Markets

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses in great detail the differences between demand, supply, and markets. Useful economic terminology is identified in bold.
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Unit Plan
Other

South Western Learning: Econ News: Price Ceilings and Price Floors

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers a summary of when government intervention and market-determined prices are necessary to stabilize the economy. Includes an interactive quiz at the end.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Dividing to Find the Unit Price

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice using division to find the unit price.
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Article
Other

Business plans.org: Marketing Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the information necessary to write a marketing plan. The concepts discussed include: generic strategies and strategies for pricing, distribution, promotion, advertising, and market segmentation.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Competition Pizza

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A lesson that teaches about competition in the marketplace that uses student-gathered information about businesses where they live. Includes student activities and links to national standards in economics and personal finance.