A Framework for Teaching Basic Economic Concepts (K-12)
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A Yen to Trade (3-6)
These 10 lessons were written to help students understand the basic rationale for making trades, the gains that are possible from trade, and how trading is done between people of different countries. Each lesson teaches basic economic concepts, as well as, international trade concepts. Most lessons employ simulations and other hands-on activities engaging students in the learning process and providing experiences to help them appreciate how they are connected to other people around the world.
$27.00
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Adventures in Economics and US History (4-8)
Integrate economics into your history lessons! Vol. 1 includes 15 lessons that focus on economic concepts throughout Colonial America. Vol. 2 includes 16 lessons that focus on economic concepts during America?s early years (1765-1877).
EF101 – Vol. 1
$32.00
Vol. 2
$32.00
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Around the World the Econ Way
Economics, Geography, and children’s literature are combined in the dynamic unit. Have your students “Book a Trip Around the World” as hands-on activities help students to understand that people all over the world are buyers and sellers, that resources are combined to produce goods and services, that people have been trading to get the things they want for centuries. Students track their journey in their special student passport. Unit includes thorough overview of economics. 237 pages.
<$30.00
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Chocolate Economics (K-5)
This “tasty” curriculum uses a chocolate theme to teach elementary school lessons that directly correlate with the national content standards in economics. The creative activities are stimulating for young students and allow for active learning. Activities have clear, thorough instructions, and all required game pieces, flash cards, worksheets, and activity cards are included for duplication. Children’s literature is incorporated.
$30.00
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Choices and Changes in Life, School, and Work (2-4)
In this updated version, students develop the ability to make decisions that affect their lives in the present and in the future. In 18 lessons, students:
•study historical figures who have made important choices;
•interview workers and create a mural depicting students at work;
•create a new product and make improvements;
•role-play about choice-making;
•analyze their own human capital and how to develop it.
Teacher Resource Manual 2-4
580 . . . . . . . . . . $29.95
Student Journals 2-4
581 . . . . . . . . . . $13.95
Classroom Mini Economy (K-8)
By organizing their own economy, students learn economic concepts, money management, and decision-making skills. This guide shows teachers how to implement the mini-economy in their classrooms with an advanced section dedicated to middle school classes. Also includes:
•Economic Primer for Teachers
•Reproducible Mini-Economy Aids
•Student Worksheets.
#627 . . . . . . . . . . $29.95
Connecting the Pieces: Building a Better Economics Lesson
Connecting the Pieces: Building a Better Economics Lesson
#498-4a . . . . . . . . . . $19.95
Dip Into Economics (3-5) DVD
With Dip Into Economics,students will learn basic economic concepts in interesting and interactive lessons for middle and high school students. With an entrepreneur attitude, students will engage in productivity, realize the positive and negative effects of specializaiton and division of labor, open a small business, and possibly earn a profit!
MSU001 . . . . . . . . . . $25.00
Do-A-Zoo (K-2)
Do A Zoo is a curriculum developed for first-grade students. They learn about animal classification by sorting stuffed animals. They work with partners to learn more about various animals and to create zoo structures. Then they invite visitors to the zoo to see the animals, eat popcorn and ride the train. Do A Zoo addresses decision-making, opportunity cost, resources, and human capital development.
$27.00
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Econ & Me (K-4)
This award-winning video series stars 4 children and their invisible friend, who helps them solve real-life economics problems. Five 15-minute videos programs focus on basic economic concepts: scarcity, opportunity cost, consumption, production, and interdependence. The Teachers Guide includes a pre/post test, program summaries, discussion questions, and activities, blackline master of activities and extension activities in all content areas.
Michigan teachers . . . . . . . . . . $15.00 includes one VHS and two Teacher Manuals; Teacher Manuals avaiable upon request
Energy, Economics, and the Environment: Elementary
Want to challenge your upper elementary students to analyze energy and environment issues from an economics perspective? These lesson plans give teachers the tools and students the knowledge they need
to analyze important and timely energy and environment issues. (4 units)
628 . . . . . . . . . . $24.95
Financial Fitness for Life (K-2 Pocket Power)
Teach students to manage money, save and spend wisely. Sixteen creative lessons include preparation materials, student activities, and assessments to promote active learning. All lessons are tied to standards for personal finance, economics, literature, and mathematics literacy. An illustrated Student Storybook highlights topics covered in each lesson and a Parent’s Guide allows for additional reinforcement in the home.
Teacher’s Guide K-2
540 . . . . . . . . . . $27.95
Student Storybook K-2
541 . . . . . . . . . . $13.95
Parent Guide K-5
548 ………………………………… $11.95
FFL K-12 CD-ROM
595 ………………………………… $39.95
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Financial Fitness for Life: Steps to Financial Fitness (3-5)
Students learn about income, spending, saving and budgeting in these 15 action-oriented lessons. Lessons include background information, preparation materials, student activities, and assessments to promote active learning. A Student Workbook highlights topics covered in each lesson and a Parent’s Guide allows for additional reinforcement in the home. Sample activities include: understanding why income varies among individuals; differentiating between fact and opinion in advertisements; role playing the buying and selling of goods and services and exploring payment methods. The CD-ROM includes all lessons and additional activities.
Teacher’s Guide 3-5
542 . . . . . . . . . . $27.95
Student Workouts 3-5
543 . . . . . . . . . . $13.95
Parent Guides K-5
548 . . . . . . . . . . $11.95
FFL K-12 CD-ROM
595 . . . . . . . . . . $39.95
Focus: Grades 3-5 Economics
You’d like to teach economics, but where do you start? You’ll have a handy curriculum guide that gives you the essentials for teaching economics to elementary school students. With glossaries, tips on teaching economics in elementary school and practical lesson plans, you’ll have a basic framework for teaching economics in elementary school. With 14 hands-on activities, you’ll keep your students actively involved with your lesson plans. You’ll use simulations, games, stories and role-playing activities that illustrate economics in a way every elementary student will enjoy
535 . . . . . . . . . . $34.95
Gingerbread Man (K-3)
Gingerbread Man curriculum unit uses an integrated thematic approach to economic instruction for primary students. Using the Gingerbread Man folk tale (six copies are included) as a theme, this unit encourages cooperative learning instruction with emphasis on respect, sharing, and decision making. The unit contains fifteen days of instruction. The classroom teacher has the flexibility to use all lessons as presented in the unit or select a desired section for instruction.
$50.00
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Kaleidoscope, USA (3-5)
In Kaleidoscope, students use economics, geography, language arts, science and math skills as they develop their community from a colony to a city of the future. This 12-lesson curriculum examines community economic development through the study of a fictitious community as it evolves from a proprietor colony into an industrialized community, and eventually into a community of the future. Students make choices about colony sites, development advertisements, write persuasive letters, participate in role plan, develop land-use graphs and more!
$40.00
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Kids Econ Posters-etc..
se these colorful, professional quality posters to reinforce economic concepts in your teaching. Each 12.5 x 18 inch poster represents an specific economic concept. The posters are available in one complete set of 22 posters or in two sets of 11 posters. There is a one-page Teacher’s Guide for each poster containing the following information: Explanation of the Economic Concept; Teaching Ideas; and Literature Connection (children’s books that teach the concept) and a table showing the correlation of the posters to the Kentucky Standards in Economics. Literature books mentioned in the Literature Connection can also be purchased. View details at their website. Other items to purchase:
KidsEcon Transparencies
KidsEcon Bingo Game
Kids Econ Activity Cards
Core Economics Principles Poster
Financial Literacy Posters (set of 5)
Half-Pint Eocnomics Curriculum
Pint-Size Economics Curriculum
“Economics is Cool” Buttons
“I Love Economics” Buttons
more items available
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Master Curriculum Guide Teaching Strategies (K-2)
Each of the 25 lessons is designed to build on real-life situations for young children. Lessons topics cover concepts like: goods and services, people?s wants, the role that workers and resources play, the world of scarcity and the need to make choices. The Teacher Resource Manual contains step-by-step lesson plans that include a list of materials, instructions for teaching, and suggestions for reinforcing the economic concepts within other subject areas and children’s literature, family activities, and community involvement.
470 . . . . . . . . . . $25.95
Master Curriculum Guide: Teaching Strategies (3-4)
In these 15 lessons, students take part in a trading activity, bookmark production activity, engage in a classroom competition, conduct interviews, perform skits, and take part in a simulation. Discussion, reading, and writing, clarify and reinforce the economic concepts. The Teacher Resource Manual is similar in format to the Master Curriculum Guide (K-2) listed above. Student Activity pages are in blackline master form.
471 . . . . . . . . . . $24.95
Math and Economics Connections for Life (3-5)
With Mathematics and Economics, Grades 3-5, you’ll use 12 standards-based lessons that apply mathematical problem solving in the context of economics. Your students will connect with your elementary math lessons in fun ways you never thought possible.
536 . . . . . . . . . . $34.95
Playful Economics (3-12)
REVISED!! Play Dough Economics teaches economic concepts through the use of modeling clay. Each of the 15 lessons introduce an economic concept primarily with activity-oriented simulations which stress an inductive approach to learning. Lessons 1-9 cover the basic economic concepts. Lessons 10-15 cover more difficult concepts, such as, supply and demand, costs and profits, inflation, and GDP. Includes a pre/post test, background information on economic concepts, teaching tips, follow-up and extension activities, and worksheets.
752 . . . . . . . . . . $24.95
Puppet Economics (Grades K-8)
Students create their own original puppet show and experience basic economic concepts learning decision-making as they choose the plot and characters; production and scarce resources as they create puppets; specialization and interdependence when they organize for production; and the critical role of consumers as they market their show. In addition to the teacher’s instructions, the guide includes 30 lessons, activity sheets and more!
$32.00
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Seas, Trees, and Economies (3-6)
This set of 10 lessons is written to help students understand the relationship between our natural environment and the economy. Most lessons employ simulations and other hands-on activities engaging students in the learning process and provide experiences to help them discover why things happen as they do.
$27.00
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Spotting Economics: From Africa to Ice Cream (K-5)
Through 15 engaging hands-on lessons, students will learn to notice economics in action in their everyday lives. They begin by learning to “spot” the economics in popular children’s literature. Each lesson starts off using an “Economics Spotter List” and the concepts are then reinforced through activities, games and songs. Lessons also include reproducible handouts. (107 pages)
$32.00
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Sprouts – Pre-school Economics through Dramatic Play
Sprouts is a curriculum designed for pre-school teachers. Twelve dramatic play scenarios are designed to introduce 4-5 year old students to basic economic and financial concepts through children’s literature and dramatic play. Each lesson includes literature connections, vocabulary, one or more worksheets, and a parent/child connection take home ideas.
214KY . . . . . . . . . . $15.00
Teaching Economics Using Children’s Literature (K-5)
(REVISED)This booklet of 21 lessons contains practical, classroom-tested lesson plans to use with popular children�s stories. The basic economic concepts used in this curriculum include goods and services, consumer, producer, productive resources, entrepreneur, scarcity, opportunity cost, trade-offs, interdependence, economic systems, international trade, and circular flow model.
630-3 . . . . . . . . . . $24.95
Umps Fwat – DVD
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Virtual Economics 4.0
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Voyages of Columbus (5-8)
Students participate in activities through which they examine early trade barriers; identify the incentives to which entrepreneurs respond; analyze the resources, human capital, and technology required for the voyage; and recognize the importance of information in decision making. These activities, combined with a mapping activity and supplemental lessons found in the appendix, enable teachers to use a variety of assessment strategies.
$45.00
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What Economics Is About: Understanding the Basics
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What Economics Is About: Understanding the Basics is designed for teachers at every grade level and in all disciplines. This 20 page booklet offers simple, time-saving ways to teach the fundamental economics content every K-12 student needs to know.
626 . . . . . . . . . . $9.95
Zoorific Economics (K-3)
This curriculum is the ideal way to teach economics through the zoo environment. Basic economic concepts are taught using zoo puppets (patterns included). Through puppet shows, extension activities in mathematics, writing, language arts, science, field trips, making and selling Zoorific candy, and adopting zoo animals, the students soon develop an understanding of economics.
$25.00
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