Grade 3 - I Am A Consumer
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Smart Spending & Saving: Understanding How We Use Money! 💰🛍️
What does it mean to be a consumer? How do people earn money, create budgets, and make smart financial choices? Every day, we make decisions about what to spend, save, or give—and now, 3rd-grade students can explore how money works in a fun, engaging, and easy-to-understand way!
📽️ “I Am a Consumer” is an interactive and visually rich educational video that helps students understand the basics of earning, spending, saving, and making financial decisions. Through real-world examples, engaging storytelling, and relatable scenarios, students will learn how to manage money wisely and see the impact of their choices!
💡 What Your Students Will Learn:
✅ The difference between income, expenses, and profit
✅ How to create a budget and make smart spending choices
✅ What it means to be a consumer and a producer
✅ The concept of opportunity cost – choosing between spending and saving
✅ How banks and interest help people grow their savings
✅ Why businesses and families plan their money carefully
🌟 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 Essential Financial Literacy Skills – Helps students develop smart money habits early on.
📚 Perfect for Economics & Social Studies Lessons – Supports discussions on personal finance, budgeting, and spending choices.
💡 Make Financial Literacy Fun, Practical, and Easy to Teach! Help your students build lifelong money skills—without extra prep work. Subscribe today and bring financial education to life in your classroom! 🚀
Video length: 6:50 minutes.
Learning Resources with this Video*
Quizzes – PDF & Online
I Am a Consumer Fill-in-the-Blank Sheet
Imagining Your Future – Writing Activity
My Budget
I Have, Who Has – Budgets
Money Management Maze
Draw a Scene
Universal Resources
National Standards
*Links are active on Full Video page.
Classroom Ideas
I Am A Consumer
My Budget
Create a budget and expense report using chores around the house.
Math Connections
Use this video to make match connections:
Create budget goals and have students decide how they can be reached.
Addition and subtraction of money with multiple steps
Video can be used as an introduction to a 3-Act math task.
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.
Writing Topics
What would you like your future career to be and why?
Would you like to own your own business and why?
What would your future business be if you could open your own business?
What would you buy with your profit?
What is a consumer?
Explore Vocabulary
Identify key vocabulary terms while previewing each video. Prompt students to find the meaning of each word as they watch the video. Example: What do the words consumer, budget, and expense mean? Think about the meaning of these words as you watch this video.
Art
Draw a picture of your future career.
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.
Classroom Ideas for ALL Videos
Here are dozens and dozens of ideas that you can use in your classroom along with our videos!
Topics Covered In This Video
Employee/employer
Wages/salary
Needs/wants
Goods/services
Producers/consumers/customers
Budgets – income/expenses/profit
Savings/opportunity cost
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