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10 Business Games for High School Students
With this collection of ten entertaining and engaging business games designed specifically for high school classes, you can unleash the power of learning by doing.
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Prepare your students for the business world with games that simulate real-life economic scenarios. This collection includes entrepreneurship challenges, market simulations, and financial planning activities. By integrating these business games into your curriculum, you can develop critical thinking and decision-making skills.
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6th-8th grade: Living the Life you want: Finance Your Dreams Activity Booklet
Introduce basic career and personal-finance awareness through a 'dream job' research activity and a group guessing game about occupations.
Money & budgeting
Bank Account Board Game: A Fun, Financial Literacy Lesson for Addition, Subtraction, or Integer Practice (Grades 3-7)
A financial literacy board game and handout that teaches students about bank accounts (deposits, withdrawals, fees, debit cards, cheques) while giving them practice adding and subtracting numbers up to 4 digits as their in-game bank balance rises and falls.
Money & budgeting
Consumers + Producers: Economics Role Play
Students take roles as business owners or consumers while a headquarters function coordinates the simulation. Eleven businesses, consumer tasks and completion cards support the first round; condition cards change the choices in the next. Discussion guidance helps the class examine competition and interdependence.
Money & budgeting
Credit Score Board Game Finance Game: Credit Cards, Loans, Mortgages
Players move around the board and adjust a simulated score in response to financial events. Use the introductory notes and infographic before group play, then discuss the choices represented. The score changes are game values rather than predictions of actual credit-score changes. The existing companion suggestion is a checking account project .
Free trade Game
The idea of “Free Trade” can be difficult for students to grasp – it’s such a “way out there” idea that they may not think of much during their day to day lives. This game is very simple, but the concepts it reinforces are very important.
Money & budgeting
Economics Scenario Game
The Economics Scenario Game: An Educational Resource for Learning Economics The Economics Scenario Game stands as an educational resource that brings the concepts of economics directly to the classroom.
Money & budgeting
Exploring Life After High School - On My Own Activity Booklet
A life-skills activity booklet teaching independent-living and personal-finance basics (housing, budgeting for daily needs, saving, planning for emergencies, and charitable giving), aligned to a Girl Scouts Ambassador 'On My Own' badge.
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Getting the Job Career Readiness Escape Room
Introduction Add some fun to your employability skills lessons with this low-prep Google Form escape room. Students will navigate real-world scenarios through fun puzzles and tasks, ensuring they are well-prepared for the job market.
Money & budgeting
Financial Literacy Unit: Grow (Investing, Retirement, and Growth)
Teaches high school students about investing, asset classes, diversification, and retirement growth strategies, including a hands-on investing simulation.
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Financial Literacy: Grow
Teaches students core concepts of investing and growing money over time, using an online investing simulator game alongside a slide presentation.
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Money Management Bingo game Life Skill Budgeting Financial Literacy
No-prep bingo game teaching financial literacy / money-management vocabulary (budgeting, saving, spending, earning)
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Keeping the Job Employability Skills Escape Room
Introduction Operation Corporate Rescue is a fun and interactive employability skills Google Form escape room. Students will practice their employability skills while saving the company!
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Middle School Career Exploration Escape Room
Introduction The "Case of the Missing Artifact" is a captivating, low-prep virtual escape room designed to reinforce career exploration skills with middle school students!
Teaching Stock Markets + Investing Unit Plan
Teaching Stock Markets and Investing Unit Plan This invaluable teaching resource is designed to engage students in the complex world of economic behavior.