Federal Reserve Bank
Little Nino's Pizzeria
Engage your youngsters in basic economics by connecting the terms to dessert and pizza! After a discussion about intermediate goods and natural resources, learners read and connect a pizzeria to economic terms.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Tortilla Factory [Pdf]
This lesson accompanies a story by Gary Paulsen called Tortilla Factory, and teaches students to identify the different types of resources (human, capital, natural, etc.) that go into creating corn tortillas and other products.
University of Nebraska Omaha
An Economics and Literature Lesson: The Goat in the Rug
This is a lesson plan geared toward first through third grades, cross-curricular, dealing with economics and literature. "Learn about economics: producers, resources (natural, human, capital), intermediate goods; and Language Arts:...
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This lesson plan is cross-curricular, economics and literature. Using the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," students will understand cause and effect and unlimited want, goods and services.