Economics + Personal Budget Coloring Activity

Students read about economic roles and personal budgeting, then answer questions that determine how to color a picture. Completed keys accompany both quiz versions.
Grades
Grades 6–8
Pages
15
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated Sep 12, 2022

Subject
Social Studies, Economics, ELA, Reading
Topic
Personal budget, Households
Resource types
Activities, Worksheets
Answer key
Included
Standards
RI.6.1

Product description

From the author

The Economics + Personal Budget Coloring Activity is a great way to introduce or review this topic for students.

Students will read a two-page passage and complete two separate fifteen-question reviews, using what they read to help them.

The answer choices will tell students what color they will use to color their picture.

This is great morning work, early finishers and more.

Answer keys included.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Explain the economic roles of households, private businesses, banks, and government in a market economy.

  • Identify the three main elements of a personal budget — income, expenditures, and savings — and how they relate to each other.

  • Apply economics vocabulary (entrepreneur, consumer, producer, competition) to a short real-world scenario to choose the correct answer.

Teaching tips

  • Assign the two-page reading review as homework or a warm-up before either color-by-code activity, since every question draws directly on its vocabulary and examples.

  • Run Review #1 and Review #2 as two separate sessions rather than one 30-question sitting, since each has its own coloring page and key.

  • Have students compare their finished coloring page to the provided completed key page to self-check before turning it in.

Skills covered

  • Economics vocabulary — students match terms such as household, entrepreneur, consumer, producer, income, expenditure, and savings to their correct meaning across 30 review questions.

  • Informational reading — students read a two-page nonfiction passage on five economics topics to answer the review questions correctly.

  • Self-checking — students compare their completed color-by-code picture to a provided answer key to verify their own work.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How do the color choices in each multiple-choice question work?

Every answer choice is paired with a color name, such as purple, yellow, or green. After picking the correct answer, students color the matching numbered space on the accompanying picture with that color.

What economics topics does the reading review cover before the two quizzes?

Households, private businesses, banks, the government's role (including taxation), competition/market/prices, earning income, and personal budgeting (income, expenditures, and savings).

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • RI.6.1

Core concepts

  • Economic roles of households, businesses, banks, and government

  • Personal budgeting: income, expenditures, and savings

  • Supply, demand, and competition

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