Students create a chart to teach the class about one economics concept and lead the class discussion on several 'pop quiz' questions found on the website. Everything has dimension, weight, quantity, etc. Students report this to parents. The Lemonade Stand is another option.
Students write their winning moneymaking strategies.
The teacher can wait until this happens naturally, or can start off the new school year with a high interest topic like how much salary famous people, with whom the children are familiar, make in a year. This lends itself to review of place value in reading and writing large numbers, and computation practice in the context of a high interest topic. Salaries can be ranked from smallest to largest, and added or subtracted to make comparisons. Annual salaries can be divided into monthly amounts, averaged, and graphed. The teacher can get a lot of review and new teaching done with this assignment, which is 'real life' and 'today' oriented.