Welcome to The Teacher Lab, your one-stop destination for high-quality teaching resources designed to empower educators in the fields of English, Mathematics, and Economics.
At The Teacher Lab, we understand how time-strapped teachers are, and we're here to support you every step of the way. Our carefully curated collection of teaching resources is crafted to enhance your teaching experience, engage your students, and foster a love for learning.
Welcome to The Teacher Lab, your one-stop destination for high-quality teaching resources designed to empower educators in the fields of English, Mathematics, and Economics.
At The Teacher Lab, we understand how time-strapped teachers are, and we're here to support you every step of the way. Our carefully curated collection of teaching resources is crafted to enhance your teaching experience, engage your students, and foster a love for learning.
Do your students want to understand the problems of barter trade and why we use money to buy things? This lesson package will cover the definition of barter trade, the problems faced and why money is used today.
What’s included
A well-crafted lesson plan consisting of lesson objectives, an introduction, guided practices, a closure component and independent practices
A video that can be used to teach or consolidate the lesson. (hosted on YouTube)
A deck of teaching slides with a story provided to teach the concept of barter trade
A set of barter trade cards for students to take part in a barter trade simulation
Case study cards - identifying the problems faced
3 different printable worksheets
Barter trade evaluation worksheet
Comparing barter trade vs. money
Identifying if a scenario is one where barter trade or money is used
*The lesson plan, slides, cards and worksheets will be downloaded as a PDF.
If you are looking for a lesson package that contains a variety of instructional methods, look no further! Our video, simulation cards and worksheets will ensure that every child is gainfully engaged throughout your lesson. In addition, with our detailed lesson plan, we provide the ideas and teaching resources needed for you to conquer each part of the lesson. Use our package to help your students enhance their economic knowledge. Our comprehensive package will ensure your students walk away liking this subject even more!
In this fun and interactive lesson, your students will learn about the different community helpers in their community; what they do and the tools they use. Through hands-on activities and engaging worksheets, your students will learn more about economics in a fun and age-appropriate manner.
What’s included
A well-crafted lesson plan consisting of lesson objectives, an introduction, guided practices and independent practices
A video that can be used to teach or consolidate the lesson. (Hosted on YouTube)
PDF slides showcasing real-life pictures of the different community helpers
Game cards to identify community helpers, where they work and the tools they use
5 different printable worksheets
Identifying community helpers
Identifying the tools community helpers use
Identifying the types of buildings where community workers work (x2 - one matching and another listing activity)
Writing a letter of appreciation to a community helper
With a wide variety of instructional strategies used, this is one lesson package that can engage the varied needs of your students. Don’t wait; add this product to your library of teaching resources today!
Introducing our comprehensive teaching resource on the history and characteristics of money. This teaching resource will explain to your students the types of money that were used in the past, the difficulties faced and the characteristics that modern day money should have: acceptability, durability, divisibility, portability and stability.
What’s included
A well-crafted lesson plan consisting of lesson objectives, an introduction, guided practices, a closure component and independent practices
A video that can be used to teach or consolidate the lesson. (hosted on YouTube)
PDF slides with real world pictures of money in the past
4 different printable worksheets
What I Know, Want to Know and Have Learnt
Listing down the characteristics needed
Comparing the characteristics of money in the past
Stating the disadvantages based on the type of money that was used in the past
So why wait? Invest in your students’ education today and help them develop the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the world of economics!
In this fun and interactive lesson, your students will learn the definitions and examples of natural, human and capital resources. Through hands-on activities and engaging worksheets, your students will learn about the concept of factors of production in a fun and age-appropriate manner.
What’s included
A well-crafted lesson plan consisting of lesson objectives, an introduction, guided practices and independent practices
A video that can be used to teach or consolidate the lesson. (hosted on YouTube)
PDF slides with questions to identify the different types of resources in a given picture
Resource cards to quiz each other to identify the different resources
4 different printable worksheets
Tick the category that a resource falls under: natural, human or capital
Match the resource to the category that it falls under
Identify and color by resource type
List down the resources needed to create an item
In this fun and interactive lesson, your students will learn the concepts of inflation and deflation through a real world simulation, an engaging video and hands-on worksheets. In addition, there is also a ready-made deck of teaching slides for you to teach this topic.
What’s included
A well-crafted lesson plan consisting of lesson objectives, an introduction, inflation simulation, direct instruction and assessments.
A video that can be used to introduce or consolidate the lesson.
Ready-made PDF teaching slides
Worksheets in both printable and digital formats (For the digital format, students will type in their answers using the PDF file provided)
10 multiple-choice questions on inflation
10 multiple-choice questions on deflation
An inflation worksheet to find out the cost of prices in the past and at present
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In this fun and interactive economics teaching package, your elementary school students will learn about income, social security, sales and property taxes. This education resource will teach students about each particular tax, when it is being collected and what the money is used for. Through video activities and engaging worksheets, your students will be able to showcase their understanding of the different types of taxes in a fun and age-appropriate manner.
What’s included
A well-crafted lesson plan consisting of lesson objectives, an introduction, guided practices and independent practices
A video that can be used to teach or consolidate the lesson. (hosted on YouTube)
Guided activities to determine whether an item is paid through taxes or directly by the user
2 different printable worksheets
Identifying the type of taxes in a given scenario
Analyzing a pie chart on taxes
In this fun and interactive lesson, your students will learn to how to plot the supply and demand curves and identify the equilibrium price. Through hands-on activities and engaging worksheets, your students will learn about the concepts of supply and demand in a fun and age-appropriate manner.
What’s included
A well-crafted lesson plan consisting of lesson objectives, an introduction, direct instruction, guided practices and independent practices
A video that can be used to teach or consolidate the lesson.
PDF worksheets with numbers provided to practice plotting the demand and supply curves
A PDF template for students to plot their own demand and supply curves based on the data they collect
Do you want to teach your students about the different types of unemployment? This lesson package will cover cyclical, structural, frictional, seasonal and classical unemployment. Real world examples will also be provided to help students understand when this is observed in a real-world setting.
What’s included
A well-crafted lesson plan consisting of lesson objectives, an introduction, guided practices, and independent practices
A video that can be used to teach or consolidate the lesson. (hosted on YouTube)
A deck of of practice slides to assess or guide learning
3 different printable worksheets
Identifying the type of unemployment based on a given scenario
Drawing out a storyboard to illustrate the different types of unemployment
Calculating the unemployment rate based on a given set of data
Review the economics concepts of elasticity (price elasticity of demand, income elasticity of demand, cross elasticity of demand etc) with these engaging worksheets for your A level students!
These worksheets will test your students’ understanding of elasticity in a clear and concise way. Students will learn to identify the factors that affect the price, income and cross elasticity of demand and supply.
Formats: PDF
What’s included
18 multiple-choice questions
Define price elasticity of demand and supply
Identify the price elasticity based on a given curve
Calculate price elasticity of demand and supply
7 short answer questions
Define price, income and cross elasticity of demand
Determine the determinants of price and income elasticity of demand
Solve real life scenarios
3 essay questions based on scenarios in the United States
Answers to every question
Use these worksheets
to provide practice with the new concepts
at the end of a unit as a review
as a test preparation
as a filler for early-finishers
as a filler when you’re out of the classroom
Get your copy of these worksheets today and help your students master the concepts of supply and demand!
Review the concepts of supply and demand with these engaging worksheets for your A level students!
These worksheets will test your students’ understanding of supply and demand in a clear and concise way. Students will learn to identify the factors that affect supply and demand, factors that shift the supply and demand curves and apply these concepts to real-world scenarios.
Formats: PDF
What’s included
+16 multiple-choice questions
+Define supply and demand
Identify shifts in supply and demand curves
Show understanding of the concepts of complements and substitutes
Find equilibrium price
9 short answer questions
Draw supply and demand curves
Demonstrate when the curves will shift
Listing non-price determinants of demand and supply
2 essay questions based on scenarios in the United Kingdom
Answers to every question
Review the concepts of scarcity, opportunity cost and the production possibility frontier with these engaging worksheets for your A level students!
These worksheets will test your students’ understanding of scarcity and opportunity cost in a clear and concise way. Students will learn to identify and calculate opportunity costs, understand the trade-offs involved in making economic decisions, and apply these concepts to real-world scenarios.
Formats: PDF
What’s included
24 Multiple-Choice Questions
Identifying and calculating opportunity costs
Interpreting the points on a PPF curve
Identifying the central problems of economics
2 short answer questions
4 essay questions based on scenarios in the United Kingdom
Answers to every question
In this fun and interactive lesson, your students will learn about the features of the traditional, command, market and mixed economy. They will also learn about the advantages and disadvantages of each type of economy and get to know which type of economy is used by which community or country. Through video activities and engaging worksheets, your students will learn about economic systems in a fun and age-appropriate manner.
What’s included
A well-crafted lesson plan consisting of lesson objectives, an introduction, guided practices and independent practices
A video that can be used to teach or consolidate the lesson. (hosted on YouTube)
Four different printable worksheets
Listing the characteristics of each system
Making a table to compare the advantages and disadvantages of each system
Reading different scenarios and identifying the type of economic system
each country belongs to
In this fun and interactive lesson, your students will learn to how to plot the supply and demand curves and identify the equilibrium price. Through hands-on activities and engaging worksheets, your students will learn about the concepts of supply and demand in a fun and age-appropriate manner.
What’s included
A well-crafted lesson plan consisting of lesson objectives, an introduction, direct instruction, guided practices and independent practices
A video that can be used to teach or consolidate the lesson.
PDF worksheets with numbers provided to practice plotting the demand and supply curves
A PDF template for students to plot their own demand and supply curves based on the data they collect
Do you want to teach your students about the different types of unemployment? This lesson package will cover cyclical, structural, frictional, seasonal and classical unemployment. Real world examples will also be provided to help students understand when this is observed in a real-world setting.
What’s included
A well-crafted lesson plan consisting of lesson objectives, an introduction, guided practices, and independent practices
A video that can be used to teach or consolidate the lesson. (hosted on YouTube)
A deck of of practice slides to assess or guide learning
3 different printable worksheets
Identifying the type of unemployment based on a given scenario
Drawing out a storyboard to illustrate the different types of unemployment
Calculating the unemployment rate based on a given set of data
In this fun and interactive lesson, your students will learn how to spend wisely and the importance of saving and budgeting. Through hands-on activities and engaging worksheets, your students will learn about the concepts of saving and budgeting.
What’s included
A well-crafted lesson plan consisting of lesson objectives, an introduction, guided practices, and independent practices
A video that can be used to teach or consolidate the concepts of budgeting, spending and saving.
Printable group activities in the form of PDF worksheets for students to practice the concept of saving
Ready-to-print play store for students to practice spending within a budget
Printable worksheets to practice budgeting for breakfast and a birthday party
Budgeting worksheet: Students will write down what they earn and how much they plan to spend, save and donate.
Savings worksheet: a template for students to track their savings on a monthly basis
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In this fun and interactive lesson about earning money, your students will learn the concepts of wages, rent, interest and profit. This lesson package includes a board game, an engaging video and a hands-on worksheet. In addition, there is also a ready-made deck of practice slides for you to assess your students.
What’s included
A well-crafted lesson plan consisting of lesson objectives, an introduction, guided practices and an independent practice.
A video that can be used to introduce or consolidate the lesson.
A printable board game that comes with a set of play money
Ready-made practice slides with questions and answers
A Printable worksheet with answers
All files will be downloaded in PDF format.
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This lesson package is perfect for your entrepreneurship lesson! This download comes with a step-by-step kid friendly business template for your budding entrepreneurs.
What’s included:
A 7 page business plan template worded in kid friendly language
Hosted on Google Slides (Can be used digitally or printed)
The 7 pages include the following templates
Idea generation and thinking about the unique selling point
Checking for demand
Designing the first draft and getting feedback
Calculating profit and loss
Marketing plan
Reflection questions
If you are looking for a business template for your young learners, look no further! This kid friendly template can be used right away and easily integrated into your business lesson.
Are you having a tough time teaching sentence creation to your varied learners? We all know that our students have different starting points. Hence, I’ve created this set of differentiated worksheets to suit your students’ different writing abilities.
By purchasing this product, you will get 4 different levels of sentence construction worksheets.
Level 1 - Students will trace a sentence and match the sentence to its picture.
Level 2 - Students will use a list of helping words to complete a sentence. Picture clues are also given to help guide your students.
Level 3 - Students will complete a sentence by choosing a suitable action word.
Level 4 - Students will expand their sentences using what, where, who and when as their guides.
With 4 different types of worksheets, you will now be able to engage all your students in your class, despite their varied abilities.
This product is for single classroom use only. It may not be placed on any public or shared database or website. Please purchase an additional license for any additional teachers.
Introducing our comprehensive teaching package for prepositions! This preposition unit will teach your students how to use the most frequently occurring prepositions (to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).
This unit consists of the following:
A detailed lesson plan on how to conduct the lesson and how to use the various resources
Teaching slides (PowerPoint needed)
definition of on/in/with/for/to/from/by/off/out/of
sentence examples of the above prepositions
The following resources are included to enable you to check for understanding.
An interactive multiple choice quiz of 9 questions (Eg: The cat is on/in/to/off the chair.)
8 preposition cards (Clip or circle the correct sentence in each box.)
Create a sentence (Choose the given preposition and noun to create a sentence)
Preposition dice activity (Roll a die and create a sentence)
This unit is designed to meet the Common Core State Standards for Kindergarten and Grade 1. With this package, you’ll have everything you need to make prepositional instruction fun and easy for your students. Don’t wait; order now and see the difference it makes in your students’ understanding of prepositions!
This product is copyright The Teacher Lab and is for single classroom use only. It may not be placed on any public or shared database or website. Please purchase additional license for usage by any additional teacher.
This product focuses on the teaching of these 6 question words: who, what, where, why, when and how. By purchasing this product, you will receive a PDF file with the following resources:
A set of printable posters of the 6 question words that can serve as anchor charts in your classroom. You can also use these posters as teaching slides.
2 activity sheets
Students will practice answering questions by drawing out
Students will create questions using question words with a Bingo exit card
Question word cards to practice using question words. These cards can be used as a whole-class, group or pair activity.
This product is copyright The Teacher Lab and is for single classroom use only. It may not be placed on any public or shared database or website. Please purchase an additional license for any additional teachers.