This is a great activity to get students moving around and speaking to one another. It is also a great cultural activity. Several of the students get the "Vendedor" sheet that has pictures of items as well as a price. In some cases there is a high and a low price. The other students are given a
Money and Barter: Exchanging Goods and Services Cut and Paste Activity - King Virtue's Classroom
Students will love applying what you've taught them during your Economics unit with this cut and paste activity. It's a great tool to use to review distinguishing between the use of barter and money in
SOL 2.8 Social Studies: Bartering unit: 10 printable concept pages: key concepts include:
.Define bartering & money
.Review goods and services
.Know people acquire goods and services through bartering or exchanging money
.Play Bartering Game : students will have to barter to complete a missi
This engaging simulation in barter and trade explores the challenges in trading on the Silk Road during the Middle Ages
In this student-tested and approved hands-on trade simulation, students “travel” with Marco Polo on the Silk Road to Kashgar. Students take on the role of traders to explore the
Economics: Money and Barter Venn Diagram - Compare Contrast - King Virtue
Students will love practicing what you've taught them about economics with this money versus barter sort activity! Using a Venn Diagram, students will compare and contrast these two forms of exchange.
This set includes:
1 Ve
This is a game I have created to complement my Economics for Kids unit.
The object of the game is to get a home, clothing, and food (meat/fish/eggs, bread, AND vegetables). You may barter goods or combine cards to make what you need. For example:
wheat + fire = bread, sheep + shears = clothing, she
This is a great, no prep lesson to help students understand what bartering is and why it didn't always work out well. Students will receive "bartering" cards to trade with each other to experience bartering in real life. 2 student worksheet pages, 2 pages of bartering cards, and more detailed teac
SOL 2.8 Social Studies: Bartering unit: Assessment and Study Guide: key concepts include:
.Define bartering & money
.Know people acquire goods and services through bartering or exchanging money
.Explain and identify the differences between exchanging money and bartering
Keywords: Virginia Re
Economics Activity: These economics cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about economics. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
These cootie catchers contain the following vocabulary terms:
Capital resources, Natural resources, Interdependence, Bar
Get your students up and moving as they play the role of Native American tribes that travel around your classroom to barter for resources. Each tribe starts with a few items that would have come from their respective U.S. region. But, gathering all of the items to win the game will take a little luc
Economics Bundle! This is a great, ready to use bundle of three different economic topics. Included are:
Bartering
This is a wonderful activity that teaches students the difference between bartering and money by having them barter different items.
Supply and Demand
This is a no prep lesson tha
This is a trading game that can be played with most primary aged children. It has been designed to teach children about the history of trade, giving children a greater understanding of why money is now the system of exchange used in most societies today. This game also helps children in understandin
I created this practice worksheet for the students to practice sorting scenarios as an example of bartering or scarcity. Students read the sentences, then cut, sort and paste them into the correct category. This can be used as a guided activity following a minilesson or as an independent practice.
Teaching Barter vs. Money can be a hard concept for some students. I use this packet to supplement in the classroom and as part of the homework unit.
I also use the barter vs. money sorting pages as VAAP samples for
HS-E 5: The student will distinguish between the use of barter and the use of mone
In this hands on activity, students simulate bartering. They take on the roles of farmers, blacksmiths, ranchers etc., and trade their goods and services for other goods and services. As the students struggle to assign value to their goods and services they realize the value of currency. The whole a
These are nonfiction reading passages about using money, bartering, goods, services, and scarcity. There is a first grade level passage, second grade level passage and a third/fourth grade level passage. There is also a version of the passage that focuses on vocabulary and learning new words.
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This product is a great addition to any economics unit! It will get kids out of their seats to really experience what it's like to barter and use currency.
Students will participate in two simulations. Both simulations are farm themed and include 30 "I want" cards pl
Give students bags of different objects to barter with (needs and wants). Use this worksheet to track what they start with, what they end with and a few questions to assess their knowledge.
2nd Grade Common Core standards for Social Studies
2.E.1: Understand basic economic concepts.
2.E.1.4: Explain why people and countries around the world trade for goods and services.
Here's the explanation of what I do with these cards:
- Review the meaning of trading and bartering. Introduce the
Welcome to the world of economic exchange! Throughout history, people have traded, bartered, negotiated, and haggled in order to receive the greatest amount of goods for the lowest cost. From the direct trade of goods to the use of currency, people have found ways to satisfy their wants and needs. T
Hit math and social studies content at the same time with this bartering math activity! Students will use the four operations to determine equal quantities of goods and services from colonial Virginia. This activity makes a great addition to a colonial life lesson or a math station!
Two differentia
Common Core Standards for Social Studies
2.E.1: Understand basic economic concepts.
2.E.1.4: Explain why people and countries around the world trade for goods and services.
FINANCIAL LITERACY - The Money Trail - Part 1 - Bartering, Yesterday and Today - is a unit that presents a historical view of bartering/trading for goods and services in early times. People lived off the land and traded items that they made or grew then traded them for other needed goods or servi
Are you looking for a hands-on way to teach the concept of bartering? This engaging activity will help bring this concept to life! Students will each have items to barter and will trade with peers to find food, clothing, and other important items. After bartering, students will glue their final p
Economics: Money and Barter Thinking Links Activity - King Virtue's Classroom
This Thinking Links Activity is a great tool to use to see what students have learned! How does this Thinking Links Activity work? The students have to analyze each block and decide which ones go together. Then, students
This project I use for my Economics 12 course, but it could easily be adapted for social studies, consumer math, etc.
This is a project that I use while teaching systems of economies and money. Students are provided this packet as well as a paperclip. Then they are to use bartering to barter "up" a
This group STEM project creates the opportunity for students to barter, buy, use capital, human and natural resources, become producers and consumers all in one lesson! Great review or introduction to Economics! This PowerPoint outlines the directions for teachers and students step by step providi
This sort goes along with the Virginia Alternative Assessment Program. The following sort relates to a 5th grade social studies ASOL.The student is required to sort the word and definition to the corresponding visual.
This PowerPoint teaches about Florida's first Floridians. It discusses the beginning of agriculture in Florida, how early Floridians traveled (in dugouts), and how use of those dugouts aided them in being able to trade goods. It also discusses how Native Americas learned to make pottery from clay, b
These role sheets allow students to interact and exchange in a market system. The roles are set-up to convince students that a money system is more efficient than bartering.
In second grade one of the units we study is about bartering. What students don’t realize is they do this all the time! At lunch, recess and all during the day students are always negotiating with each other for things they want.
This lesson begins with a Powerpoint. The PPT gives a brief overview
Economics: Money, Barter, and Credit Vocabulary Words Cut and Paste Activity - Definitions - King Virtue - King Virtue's Classroom
Students will love applying what you've taught them during your Economics unit with this cut and paste activity. It's a great tool to use to review the meanings of mone
Barter or Money System? This is a fun and engaging way to practice determining the differences between bartering and money. Students will read a statement and glue the box in the correct column. An answer key is included.
This lesson compares the Native American economy of bartering with ours today. It has the students trade natural resources with one another in an effort to simulate the trading system that the Native Americans used. Students will be able to experience what a barter economy is all about.
This activity can be used to demonstrate the concept of bartering to students.
In the activity, students are given one of four professions in ancient Mesopotamia: farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, and weaver. Each profession starts with certain goods and must trade to acquire other goods that they ne
Students will collaborate in groups to come up with an African tribe identity and compete in a silent barter simulation. The lesson will include planning steps such as determining what type of tribe they want to be, and what strategy they will use to obtain their needed goods. When completed, studen
had no idea how to accurately title this product, so I came up with Marshmallow Team Barter Challenge.
In this download you will receive:
Lesson outline and materials.
Included in this download are:
• Vocabulary cards
• Lesson outline
• Design challenge instructions
• Design challenge rubric
Bartering for Goods & Services is the second of 14-lesson in the Financial Literacy for Kids thematic unit, and is aligned to the Common Core State Standards, the Financial Literacy standards, and the National Standards in Economics, and Reading/Language Arts.
This lesson focuses on exploring
FINANCIAL LITERACY - The Money Trail - Part 1 - Bartering, Yesterday and Today PowerPoint presentation gives a historical view of bartering/trading for goods and services in early times. People lived off the land and traded items that they made or grew then traded them for other needed goods or se
Introduce students to bartering the fun and interactive way that they will remember.
There are two sets of 16 cards. One demonstrates effective bartering where everyone is able to get what they need, the other set demonstrates ineffective bartering when some are left in want.
Money Activities Trading and Bartering for equal value!
Merchandise has equal monetary value.
Students will have a trading experience with The Sequoia Family.
The Indian boy or girl will only trade their item for things of equal value!
This product is about a monetary value trading experience for th
In this resource, there is a nonfiction reading passage about the economic principles of voluntary exchange, barter & trade. It is differentiated for your high, mid, and lower level students. Integrate American History content with your reading texts and meet each reader's needs with this set. G
This assessment focuses on the idea of bartering for goods & services. Page 1 of the assessment has 5-question that cover vocabulary terms related to bartering, whereas page 2 of the assessment gives your students an opportunity to create a comic strip capturing the concept of bartering, instead
I use these cards as an activity when teaching bartering and trading. The cards are set up with occupations that provide services. Each card has the occupation, service provided by that occupation, and services that that person needs. Students circulate throughout the room to try and find someone
This product is a teacher-made 1st grade economics big book composed of images of bartering and monetary systems, and text that both provide relevant details and summarize the main idea in a repetitive phrase.
Youngsters who understand economics grow to become “capable of making better decisions as savers, investors, borrowers, voters, and participants in the global economy.” (Council of Economics Education)
BARTER is a fundamental element of economics. BARTER is the most basic tool people use to get w
A fun bartering game to introduce or finish off a unit on Colonial American and/or Bartering!
Students, working together in groups, have to barter with other colonists (student groups) to get the supplies they need. The difficulty of the game is completely adaptable by the teacher.
Set includes:
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FINANCIAL LITERACY - The Money Trail - Part 1 – Bartering Package 3 in 1 (2018 update) includes the Chapter download, PPT presentation, Assessments & Vocabulary - the chapter presents a historical view of bartering/trading for goods and services in early times. People lived off the land and tra
Each slide can be printed as a "card" to be given out to students in order to play a match-up bartering game. A different colonial job description is listed on each card, along with a need that person has. Students will need to work together to find the person that "matches" their card- they can sat
Give students this fun, authentic activity to help them understand the concept of bartering and trading. Each student gets a scoopful of trail mix (I made my own, with pretzels, peanuts, M&Ms) and I just 10-12 pieces of special candy (I used Airheads). It became a matter of chance who got those