High School
A Framework for Teaching Basic Economic Concepts (K-12)
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Advanced Placement Economics (3rd Edition)
Advanced Placement Economics is the perfect complement to your college-level economics textbook. Use these proven activity-based lessons to clearly illustrate and reinforce the economic principles you introduce in your lectures. Consists of the microeconomics and macroeconomics Student Activities Books and the Teacher Resource Manual.
Student Activity Book (Macro)
567-4a . . . . . . . . . . $24.95
Student Activity Book (Micro)
568-4a ………………………………… $24.95
Teacher Resource Manual
566-4a ………………………………… $64.95
Beyond Economic Growth (9-12)
Published by The World Bank Institute, Beyond Economic Growth was designed to help readers broaden their knowledge of global issues and gain insight into their country’s situation in a global context. Created as a student reader, this new publication will serve as a valuable resource tool for both economic and non-economic teachers alike. Through a study of the challenges of global development, readers are encouraged to explore and discuss a wide range of social, economic, and environmental issues.
5933 . . . . . . . . . . $25.00
Capstone (9-12)
When combined with a textbook, Capstone provides activities for a complete high school economics course. 45 exemplary lessons, over half of which are completely new, help students learn to apply economic reasoning to a wide range of real-world subjects – ranging from personal finance to global issues. Lessons cover: markets, supply and demand, personal finance, macroeconomics, the role of government, the global economy…and more.
Two Book Set
515 ………………………………… $59.95
Choices and Changes in Life, School, and Work (9-10)
This updated edition uses basic economic principles to help students develop the knowledge, reasoning skills, and confidence that will allow them to take responsibility for their futures and to understand that human behavior is a result of choices, not chance. Students will learn that by investing in their skills and knowledge and by learning to make sound decisions, they can gain control over and improve opportunities in their own lives.
Teacher Resource Manual 9-10
592 . . . . . . . . . . $29.95
Student Journal 9-10
593 . . . . . . . . . . $13.95
Connecting the Pieces: Building a Better Economics Lesson
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Creating our Economy (9-12)
A comprehensive video-supported economics resource for fifth through eighth grade students. With real-life applications representing a range of industries and enterprises, the series explores key economic principles from the inside out. Go to the farm, get on the production line with manufacturing, and visit with education and the service sector. Includes 5 programs: Factors of Production; Markets & Prices; Monopoly and Competitive Markets; Markets & Competition; and International Trade.
$295.00
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Economics and the Environment (9-12)
In 20 lessons, students learn concepts and principles from the specialty fields of environmental economies, natural resource economics, and ecological economics. Topics include: Relationship between natural resources and economic well-being; Maximizing natural resources; Economic roots to environmental problems; Natural resource management
482 . . . . . . . . . . $34.95
Economics At Work (9-12)
This one-semester, multimedia curriculum revolves around 5 essential economics activities: producing, exchanging, consuming, saving, and investing. Students evaluate information from a variety of sources, including the business world. A complete set of 5 modules – with 27 interactive lessons composed of print materials, video, videodisc, and software applications – contains all media, teacher guides, software, and student guides with worksheets. (Priced as set and individually.)
$475.00
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Economics in Action (9-12)
Economics in Action combines 14 favorite NCEE simulations, role-playing activities, group activities, and classroom demonstrations in 1 accessible volume for both new and experienced economics teachers. This Teachers Resource Manual includes all necessary background information and instructions to help teachers introduce economic concepts and reasoning. Lessons cover: Trade, Economic Reasoning and Decision Making, The Role of Government in a Market Economy, Money and Inflation, Fiscal Policy and Exchange Rates.
086 . . . . . . . . . . $29.95
Economies in Transition: Command to Market (9-12)
Challenges face Central European, Baltic, and former Soviet countries during their transitions to new political and economic systems. These 10 lessons are devoted to economic reform and their accompanying complications. Students: role-play parking lot managers; simulate effects of change in money supply on price levels; compare proposals to privatize U.S. public schools to privatizing state property in Eastern Europe.
484 . . . . . . . . . . $19.95
Energy, Economics, and the Environment: High School
Challenge your students with activities that enable them to analyze energy and environment issues from an economics perspective. Updated current information and tackling hot-button issues, you’ll give your students the knowledge and tools they need to analyze important energy and environment issues. (4 units)
632 . . . . . . . . . . $27.95
Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Economy (9-12)
Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Economy (9-12)
Teacher Manual
485-4a . . . . . . . . . . $49.95
Student Book of Reading (set of 10)
486-4a . . . . . . . . . . $17.95
Financial Fitness for Life: Bringing Home the Gold (9-12)
Bringing Home the Gold contains 22 action-oriented lessons where students make decisions aout earning an income, saving and spending, using credit, and budgeting. Lessons include background information, preparation materials, student activities, and assessments to promote active learning. All lessons are tied to standards for personal finance and economic literacy. A Student Workbook highlights topics covered in each lesson and a Parent’s Guide allows for additional reinforcement in the home.
Teacher’s Guide 9-12
546 . . . . . . . . . . $27.95
Student Workouts
547 . . . . . . . . . . $13.95
Parent Guides 6-12
549 ………………………………… $11.95
FFL K-12 CD-ROM
595 ………………………………… $39.95
Financing Your Future: A Complete HS Personal Finance Program on DVD
With Financing Your Future, you’ll use a rich mixture of 5 video segments and 15 in-class activities (3 for each video segment) to give your students a solid grounding in key personal finance concepts. The videos cover 5 key themes: Get a (Financial) Life
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Get Smart: Decisions Have Consequences
Get Banked! The Banking Advantage
Get the Credit You Deserve
and Get a Financial Plan.
644 ………………………………… $99.95
Focus on Economics: Globalization
NEW PUBLICATION! Give your students a balanced global perspective. Now high school teachers can harness the power of 12 mind-expanding lesson plans to frame the globalization debate in terms any student can understand
635 . . . . . . . . . . $34.95
Focus on Economics: Personal Decision Making (9-12)
Fifteen lessons that highlight and examine basic economic concepts as they relate to consumer, business, social and personal choices. Lessons explore goal setting and career planning, consumer sovereignty and advertising, collective bargaining, health care, international economics and the American consumer, and the role of government.
494 . . . . . . . . . . $29.95
Focus: Civics and Government (9-12)
This publication provides 16 lessons that highlight economic content within topics traditionally taught in a government or civics class. The lessons focus on topics such as: how has the Constitution shaped the US economic system, is economic freedom necessary for political freedom, what are the costs and benefits of voting, what are the economic functions of government, how do economic conditions determine the outcome of presidential elections, why do governments limit international trade, and more.
492 . . . . . . . . . . $25.95
Focus: Economic Systems (9-12)
The economics of control, cooperation, and competition. An introductory essay provides background information to the 12 classroom-ready lessons. Students examine and answer: – What is the economic basis for land ownership and resources?
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of central decision-making?
What is the appropriate scope of, and limits to, competition?
How much inequality in distribution of wealth is acceptable?
and more!
497 . . . . . . . . . . $32.95
Focus: Geography (9-12)
This curriculum resource provides 12 interactive lessons that highlight some of the ways that geography and economics can be integrated. . The lessons focus on geography and international trade, exchange rates, Gross Domestic Product, trade barriers, demographics and economics, analysis of geographic and economic information using maps and graphs and externalities.
491 ………………………………… $27.95
Focus: High School Economics (2nd Ed.) (9-12)
This curriculum resource opens with an exploration of scarcity and choice as it relates to planning a prom. Students then examine broad social goals of an economy, the stock market, human capital investment in education, income distribution, productivity, externalities, competition, and aggregate supply and demand. All lessons provide applications of economic understanding to real world situations and contexts. The 20 interactive lessons include background information, teaching procedures, student handouts, and an assessment activity.
614 . . . . . . . . . . $34.95
Focus: Institutions and Markets (9-12)
Expose your students to world trade and international finance with fun, simple to understand lesson plans. Your students will discover the roles markets, governments and institutions play in developing a thriving free-market system. Through lively discussions, debates, data analysis and teamwork activities, your students will strengthen their life skills and discover how to make solid decisions – about institutions, markets and life.
616 . . . . . . . . . . $32.95
Focus: International Economics (9-12)
International Economics highlights and examines basic economic concepts and issues in international economics. The 20 lessons presented are organized around several major content themes including: international economics, global production, global competition, exchange rates, and issues in international finance.
496 . . . . . . . . . . $32.95
Focus: U.S. History (9-12)
This teaching resource provides 15 lessons that use economic principles and reasoning in different historical contexts to help explain people’s behavior throughout history. Students discover how significant events in US social history, reflected changes in economic incentives. Primary source materials, such as indentured servant contracts, excerpts from federal food safety laws, advertisements from the 1920′s, and travelers’ accounts of explorations are used extensively in the program.
488 . . . . . . . . . . $27.95
Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History (9-12)
When you turn your students into U.S. History sleuths, you’ll immediately capture their attention and unleash a new wave of creativity in your classroom. Each lesson plan is arranged chronologically and covers key economic and historical events, so you can easily integrate the lesson plans into your curriculum as you zip through your U.S. History textbook. It’s the best way to engage all your students in U.S. economic history, regardless of their interest or learning levels. 39 lessons
624 . . . . . . . . . . $59.95
Focus: World History (9-12)
This teaching resource provides 12 interactive lessons that use economic principles and reasoning to help students understand economic aspects of world history. They explore the first economic revolution, the change from nomadic to settled agricultural lifestyles, why some economies prospered and grew while others remained stagnant or declined, and what caused people to make choices that helped or hindered economic growth.
490 . . . . . . . . . . $27.95
From Plan to Market (9-12)
Drawing on data from the World Bank’s “World Development Report 1996,” this guide focuses on the transition from central planning to market orientation in the economic systems of Central and Eastern Europe, the independent states of the former Soviet Union, and China. 10 lessons explore such issues as: What is the legacy of planned economies? What forms of privatization are being tried? What is the social cost of the transition?
495 . . . . . . . . . . $19.95
Learning, Earning, and Investing (HS)
Your students will hae a thorough working knowledge of personal finance and face those tough decisions head-on. Plus each personal finance lessons is linked to the National Math and Personal Finance Standards. After introducing key concepts, you’ll reinforce them with engaging hands-on activities: simulations, role-playing, even a “financial bee”. Use with the Stock Market Game or Take Stock in Kentucky! (23 lessons)
570-4a . . . . . . . . . . $24.95
Master Curriculum Guide (Economics & Entrepreneurship) (9-12)
The variety of instructional approaches found in this guide combine learning economics with understanding entrepreneurship. 17 lessons provide background information, required materials, teaching procedures, and student handouts
423 . . . . . . . . . . $23.95
Mathematics and Economics Connections for Life (9-12)
Designed to help math teachers answer that proverbial question Why do I have to learn this? this curriculum is a set of 15 lessons showing how mathematical processes and concepts may be applied to the study of economics and personal finance. Whether the course is basic algebra or Advanced Placement Calculus, the lessons in this manual have been designed to help reinforce the mathematics concepts and processes taught, by using examples from economics and personal finance.
602 . . . . . . . . . . $34.95
Risky Business – DVD
Are your students equipped to make life-altering decisions about: Higher education; Healthy lifestyles; Credit; Insurance? Risky Business shows teenagers how sound decision-making can empower people and provide greater opportunities for success, fortune, freedom, and overall well-being. This comprehensive educational DVD package includes videos that show students how making well-informed decisions can help young people build a financially successful and more satisfying life. Each video is complemented with standards-based classroom lesson plans that teachers, parents and mentors can use to reinforce the concepts demonstrated in the videos.
633 . . . . . . . . . . $129.95
The E in Me
Provide an introduction to the characteristics and mindset of entrepreneurs and to the processes they use to identify and evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities. Three 15-min. student programs One 15-min. teacher program Grades 10-12.
Teacher Guide . . . . . . . . . . $19.95
Student Guide . . . . . . . . . . $67.50
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The Great Economic Mysteries Book (9-12)
The Great Economic Mysteries: Grades 9-12 provides teachers with an overview of economic thinking; a model lesson plan; a guide that states the solution to each mystery; and 20 delightful and often humorous mysteries. Students solve engaging mysteries about current events, government, and the environment by responding to hints and by applying an “economic way of thinking.”
128 . . . . . . . . . . $24.95
U.S. History: Eyes on the Economy (6-12)
The United States History: Eyes on the Economy curriculum helps U.S. history teachers and students examine events in our history through basic economic reasoning. That reasoning is used throughout the program to illuminate an understanding of our past. Fascinating new insights emerge as students apply economic analysis to the events covered in traditional history courses. Supplementing secondary U.S. History textbooks, the 2-volume set contains 17 units. Each summarizes historical facts and economic principles through case studies, lectures, and class discussion. Volumes contain overviews, lessons, and sample tests; lists of required instructional materials; and student handouts.
Vol 1 (Civil War)
480 . . . . . . . . . . $34.95
Vol 2 (20th Century)
481 . . . . . . . . . . $38.95
Virtual Economics 4.0
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What Economics Is About: Understanding the Basics
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Adult
Your Credit Counts Challenge: Trainers Guide
With this ideal financial clinic for low-to-moderate income adults, you’ll help your workshop participants get their credit into tip-top shape. This thorough 6-unit workshop shows adults how to make better financial choices. Includes: How to earn an icome and create a budget; the inner workings of financial institutions; getting your credit into shape; the basics of homeownership; and how to build wealth.
Trainer’s Guide
068-4A ………………………………… $22.95
Participant’s Guide
069-4A ………………………………… $9.95>/b>
Life Fundamental$ Money Management Seminars “Surviving Tough Times” CD-Kit
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