OverviewThese lessons for elementary school provide economic content as students learn about their community.
Detailed InformationThrough a community-based publishing project, students in grades 3–5 learn how economics works
through a series of cross-curricula activities such as:
- Researching their
community and forming a publishing business
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- Writing and producing a book about the community
- Marketing and selling the book
- Analyzing business results
With background materials
and student handouts, the Teacher Resource Manual includes 33 lessons
that cover scarcity, opportunity cost, productivity, incentives, markets
and prices, and supply and demand. Also available is a Student Activity Book containing 30 high-involvement student activities along with maps, charts, and exercises in math and language arts designed to help students plan, analyze, organize, and record their experiences in The Community Publishing Company.
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