Grade 3 - Businesses At Work
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How Do Businesses Work? A Fun & Engaging Look at Economics! 💰🏭
How do businesses earn money? What happens when there’s too much demand and not enough supply? Why do some countries specialize in certain products while others trade with them? Now, 3rd-grade students can take an exciting journey into the world of business and economics—and discover how the choices they make impact the economy!
📽️ “Businesses at Work” is a visually engaging, easy-to-understand educational video that helps students explore how businesses, factories, and trade work. Through real-world examples, interactive storytelling, and fun visuals, this video makes learning about supply, demand, trade, and money management exciting and meaningful!
💡 What Your Students Will Learn:
✅ How businesses earn money and calculate profit
✅ The relationship between supply, demand, and pricing
✅ How products are made using human and capital resources
✅ Why some businesses and factories specialize in certain goods
✅ The difference between domestic trade and international trade
✅ How their personal buying choices impact the economy
🌟 Why Teachers Love This Video:
🕒 No-Prep, Standards-Aligned Content – Just press play and start teaching!
🎥 Visually Engaging & Kid-Friendly – Keeps 3rd graders focused and excited.
🎯 Teaches Real-World Economic Concepts – Helps students understand how money, business, and trade work in everyday life.
📚 Perfect for Economics & Social Studies Lessons – Supports discussions on business, production, and financial literacy.
💡 Make Economics Fun, Practical, and Easy to Teach! Help your students build a strong foundation in business and money management—without extra prep work. Subscribe today and bring the world of economics to life in your classroom! 🚀
Video length: 6:30 minutes.
Learning Resources with this Video*
Quizzes – PDF & Online
Businesses at Work – Vocabulary Worksheet
Making Connections: Supply and Demand During a Pandemic
Imports and Exports
Resource Round Up
Draw a Scene
Universal Resources
National Standards
*Links are active on Full Video page.
Classroom Ideas
Businesses At Work
Cloze Practice
A cloze piece has full sentences used in the virtual field trip with blanks where students can write in the information that is missing. This task requires close listening to the trip in order to complete it.
Coral reefs are the _______ type of ecosystem in the world. They’ve been around for over _____ million years.
Answers: oldest; 240
Alternatively, you could have students create 5-10 cloze statements and they could share those with the class.
A third alternative is to distribute the cloze worksheets before watching the video. Students can fill them in as they watch.
Explore Vocabulary
Identify key vocabulary terms while previewing each video. Prompt students to find the meaning of each word as they watch the video.
Visual Learning
Offer videos to struggling learners as another way of creating knowledge and accessing information.
Art and Social Studies
Draw a scene from the video.
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Topics Covered In This Video
Income – Expenses = Profit
Demand and Supply
Human and Capital Resources
Assembly lines & specialization
Exports and Imports
Domestic and International trade
The economy
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