Economics + Personal Budget Coloring Activity

- Grades
- Grades 6–8
- Pages
- 15
- File type
- Answer key
- Included
- 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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