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Lesson Links
Economic Videos and Songs
Economics Lesson Cosby Style
A segment from "The Cosby Show" where Cliff tries to teach Theo about personal economics (income and expenses).
http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=4947
Walkin' on Wallstreet
A music video from School House Rock on investing and Wall Street.
http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=3797
Dollars and Cents (SHR)
School House Rock
http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=3647
This For That
School house rock on barter
http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=3645
Economic songs http://www.kidseconposters.com/econsongs.html
Links to go with Books:
My Rows and Piles of Coins
Kids Africa http://www.pbs.org/wonders/Kids/kids.htm
Video: Honey...Honey...Lion! http://www.janbrett.com/video/honey...honey...lion.htm An African Safari with Jan Brett to prepare for her book Honey...Honey...Lion! A Story from Africa . (length 13:12)
Video: How to Draw A Lion Honey...Honey...Lion! 2005 Tour http://www.janbrett.com/video/how_to_draw_a_lion.htm Jan Brett’s 2005 book tour for Honey...Honey...Lion! Book tour and instructions on How to Draw a Lion. (length 19:05)
Video: How to Draw an Elephant http://www.janbrett.com/video/how_to_draw_an_elephant.htm Jan Brett demonstrates how to draw an Elephant, includes photos and videos of her trip to Botswana Africa . (length 12:02)
Kenyan Children’s Songs http://www.mamalisa.com/world/kenya.htmlKids songs from Kenya with English translations.
Kermit the Hermit
Concepts: goods, services, choices, spending, saving, income, interestPersonal Finance Lessons in Children's Literature (Online)http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/Kermit/index.asp
http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/Kermit/index.asp
Charlie Needs a Cloak:
Preview the Sheep Shearing in Vermont online video.
take a virtual trip to a farm http://www.sheep101.info/
Goat in the rug
Concepts: producers, resources (natural, human, capital), intermediate goods, language artsFrom Economics and Children's Literature http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lit-goat.htm
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lit-goat.htm
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Concepts: opportunity cost, credit, credit limit, interest or finance charge, language arts, geography, science math http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/Penguins/index.asp
Penguin Waiter (calculate tip)
http://www.funbrain.com/penguin/index.html
If you Made a Million Video http://www.unitedstreaming.com/
The Tortilla Factory
http://www.kidseconposters.com/keb/Title%20List%20Poster%20Set%20A/Productive%20Resources/Tortilla%20Factory.htm
The door bell rings:
Scarcity
http://www.kidseconposters.com/keb/Title%20List%20Poster%20Set%20A/Scarcity/Doorbell%20Rang.htm
the cookie quest
http://tli.jefferson.k12.ky.us/EDTD675Projects/daviswatkins/Cookie%20Quest.html
Economics and Geography Lessons:( from Montgomery County Schools)
The Chester Town Tea Party (Grade 4)
The Day They Left the Bay (Grade 4)
The Goat in the Rug (Grades 2-5)
The Ice House (Grade 4)
Sarah Plain and Tall (Grade 4)
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Grade 4)
Two Tickets to Freedom (Grade 4)
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? (Grade 5)
The Goat in the Rug (Grades 2-5)
Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon (Grade 5)
On The Way Home: A Dairy of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri in 1894 (Grade 5)
The Silk Route (Grade 5)
The Trail on Which They Wept, The Story of a Cherokee Girl (Grade 5)
Online Stories about Real World Problems
Online-Book Hot Stuff
http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/HotStuff/default.htm
Cameron's Trip - [this link opens in a new window] multiply and divide to solve real-world problems (Author - Jackie Russell)
Groups Of Dogs - [this link opens in a new window] use arrays to understand the meaning of multiplication (Author - Sandi King)
Let's Go Shopping - [this link opens in a new window] estimate by rounding to the nearest dollar as they shop (Author - Sandi King)
Maggies Farm - keep up with how many apples are sold and how much money was made
http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/HotStuff/default.htm
Cameron's Trip - [this link opens in a new window] multiply and divide to solve real-world problems (Author - Jackie Russell)
Groups Of Dogs - [this link opens in a new window] use arrays to understand the meaning of multiplication (Author - Sandi King)
Let's Go Shopping - [this link opens in a new window] estimate by rounding to the nearest dollar as they shop (Author - Sandi King)
Maggies Farm - keep up with how many apples are sold and how much money was made
Percents
Finding the Percent of a Number
Learn how to find the percent of a number - for example - Find 10% of 80 (video)
Percent Song
http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=6963
Percent paint
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/PercentPaint/ppaint.html
Mission Magnetite
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/percent/percent.html
Percent Problems - [this link opens on a new page] a one-player, or two-player game from Quia
Percents and Ratios - an index of pages that teach percent and ratio skills covered in K8 math courses - Each page has an explanation, interactive practice and challenge games about percents and ratios. (from AAA math)
Percents and Wholes - online quiz
Percent with a Calculator - after the lesson there are problems to work (don't run your mouse over the colored blocks until you have an answer in mind)
Practice Solving Percent Problems - more percent practice
Book Mark Profit (adding Money/Decimals) (Entrepeneurs)
Kid’s Money Making: A site where people can submit their money-making ideas to and read the advice other people have shared.www.kidsmoney.org/makemone.htm
Twenty Money-Making Ideas for Young people
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/popup.php?lesson_number=476&&flash_name=em476_story_1.swf
Use it to help students brainstorm what types of jobs would be suitable for them to pursue.
www.econedlink.org/lessons/docs_lessons/476_Twenty_Money1.pdf
Count the Money - You're given a target amount and the number of coins you already have. You must determine how many more coins of a certain type are needed to reach the target.
Rope Tug - [game for one or two players] three levels available, opponents are pulled toward the pit if you have a larger decimal, the amount of pull is related to the difference between the two decimals
Online Games with decimals:
This site has several decimal games such as: Beat the clock, Concentration, Decimal darts, laser beam,etc.
http://www.decimalsquares.com/dsGames/
Thinkfinity lessons online Interactive lessons
Become a Spice trader: http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/spicetrade/
NOT Your Grandma’s Lemonade Stand
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lesson=EM276
Twenty Money-Making Ideas for Young people
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/popup.php?lesson_number=476&&flash_name=em476_story_1.swf
Use it to help students brainstorm what types of jobs would be suitable for them to pursue.
www.econedlink.org/lessons/docs_lessons/476_Twenty_Money1.pdf
Count the Money - You're given a target amount and the number of coins you already have. You must determine how many more coins of a certain type are needed to reach the target.
Rope Tug - [game for one or two players] three levels available, opponents are pulled toward the pit if you have a larger decimal, the amount of pull is related to the difference between the two decimals
Online Games with decimals:
This site has several decimal games such as: Beat the clock, Concentration, Decimal darts, laser beam,etc.
http://www.decimalsquares.com/dsGames/
Thinkfinity lessons online Interactive lessons
Become a Spice trader: http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/spicetrade/
NOT Your Grandma’s Lemonade Stand
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lesson=EM276
Business:
What’s Hot! What’s Not! (Thermometers)
Reading thermometer sites:
What's the Temperature?
The Interactive Thermometer
http://www.mathsisfun.com/measure/thermometer.html
Download interactive Thermometer:
http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/47749
Reading Thermometers Online quiz
(Great for Turning Point Anywhere)
http://www.mrmyers.org/Math_Mania/Math_Quizzes/Temperature/temp1.htm
http://fs.sdsu.edu/pisces/WeatherKit/Lesson05.php
Videos:
Reading Thermometers
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=9217&title=Thermometers
Mean, Medium, Mode video
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=79775&title=Math_Rocks__mean_mode_median_and_range
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