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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Economics Games
Bring economics to life with games that illustrate financial principles and market behaviors. This collection includes stock market simulations, supply and demand challenges, and budgeting exercises. By integrating these economics games into your lessons, you can enhance understanding and interest in economic subjects.
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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.
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.
Economic Systems Game (Engaging and Memorable Rock, Paper, Scissors Game)
The Economic Systems Game is an engaging rock, paper, scissors activity that creates a classroom economy using provided "class bucks". Students attempt to "get rich" by playing against classmates.
Economic Systems Simulation
Teacher Guide Economic Systems Game Thank you for using this product to introduce economic systems in an engaging and memorable way! Consult the teacher instructions below to help you facilitate the game.
The Tragedy of the Commons Simulation (Slides, Worksheet, Instructions)
The Tragedy of the Commons Simulation introduces students to the economic concept of the "tragedy of the commons" through an engaging in-class game .
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.
Sharecropping and Tenant Farm Game
A budget simulation game teaching students the economic mechanics and fairness questions of post-Civil War sharecropping and tenant farming systems.
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.
Engaging Unions and Negotiation Case Study
A three-way role-play negotiation simulation teaching how labor unions, union leadership, and management negotiate contracts, set in a fictional garbage-collector strike scenario (Cleantopia's Waste Pros Union vs. City Sanitation Department).
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