Learners will act as consumers in a classroom store to demonstrate a barter system and the cost of goods.

Barter system game.

Play Dough Economics (https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED315359.pdf)

Economy Class games and simulations (http://www.econoclass.com/games.html)

Business owner guest speaker

Econ Ed Link’s website (https://www.econedlink.org/resources/collection/understanding-fiscal-responsibility/)

Bank guest speaker

Dave Ramsey Investment Calculator (https://www.daveramsey.com/smartvestor/investment-calculator)

Investment guest speaker

FAFSA (https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/fafsa)

Employment guest speaker

Smart Asset’s federal income tax calculator (https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes)

Accountant guest speaker

Kids Voting

Budget calculator (https://www.quicken.com/budget-calculator)

Dog food lesson

Spirit of Alaska’s Bonzai online budget simulation (https://spiritofak.teachbanzai.com/)

Insurance guest speaker

Real estate guest speaker (e.g. Sommers and Associates)

Car sales guest speaker

Washington State Council for the Social Studies (https://www.wscss.org/economics)

Numerous activities are available for the Foundation for Teaching Economics (www.fte.org):

• • The Bead Game (economic systems)

  • Trade-offs and Opportunity Costs

  • The Tragedy of the Commons

  • Mystery of the Disappearing Trash (incentives)

  • In the Chips activity (supply & demand)

Collective Bargaining simulation. *Additional resources are included

Inflation auction

Recollections of Pine Gulch and the creation of a monetary system (http://pinegulch.blogspot.com/2011/02/recollections-of-pine-gulch-story.html)

•Stock market game (numerous sources and versions)