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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Arts Mart
Arts Mart is an experienced-based program designed to integrate art and economics into the middle school world history course. As students study diverse civilizations and cultures throughout world history, they engage in more detailed investigations of art forms of four or five cultures.
$40.00
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Choices and Changes in Life, School, and Work (5-6)
This updated version focuses on having students answer 15 questions such as: How can I develop the skills and knowledge that I want but do not have? Why can’t I have everything I want? How can I satisfy more of my wants? What is the advantage of working effectively with others? Why do some people earn more than others? The fifteen lessons are all activity based and correlated with economics, history, and literature standards.
Teacher’s Resource Manual 5-6
582 . . . . . . . . . . $29.95
Student Journal 5-6
583 . . . . . . . . . . $13.95
Choices and Changes in Life, School, and Work (7-8)
This updated edition uses basic economic principles to help students discover they have the power and the intelligence to make sound decisions. Students learn that scarcity, the condition of wants exceeding available resources, is the economic problem that forces people to make choices and then develop a set of skills for making informed decisions. The 15 lessons teach students how to analyze costs and benefits, while discovering how people respond to incentives. Students will learn where they stand in the economy, how to make choices, and how their choices affect others. The Teachers Resource Manual is supplemented by a Student Journal has been created to help students connect the themes of Choices & Changes to their own lives and develop the skills they need to succeed in life, school, and work.
Teacher’s Resource Manual 7-8
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Student Journal 7-8
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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
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Dip Into Economics(6-8) 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! (10 lessons)
MSU002 . . . . . . . . . . $25.00
Economics and the Environment: Eco-Detectives (6-8)
This curriculum contains 15 engaging, thought-provoking independent lessons that help middle school students apply economic reasoning to important environmental issues such as protecting endangered species, recycling, and resource depletion. All lessons include background information, required materials, teaching procedures, and a closure activity that reviews learning, provides summary, or invites additional applications. Assessment activities are included.
574 . . . . . . . . . . $36.95
Financial Fitness for Life: Shaping Up Your Financial Future (6-8)
Help students apply econimics and decision-making skills to the real world of earning and spending an income, savings, using credit, and managing money. Lessons include background information, preparation materials, student activities, and assessments to promote active learning.
Teacher’s Guide 6-8
544 . . . . . . . . . . $29.95
Student Workouts 6-8
545 . . . . . . . . . . $13.95
Parent Guides 6-12
549 . . . . . . . . . . $11.95
FFL K-12 CD-ROM
595 . . . . . . . . . . $39.95
Focus on Economics: Middle School World Geography
An Integrated Way to Teach Economics and Geography – Using real-world scenarios, your students will apply economics and geography concepts to their everyday lives. They’ll uncover the decision-making process involved in using and distributing resources, and explore how human activity affects the physical environment. (9 lessons)
520 . . . . . . . . . . $34.95
Focus: Middle School Economics (6-8)
This 19-lesson curriculum focuses on six societal roles and how economic decision making and content is relevant to each role: decision maker, consumer, worker, citizen, saver, global participant. The evaluation section includes a journal writing activity related to students’ changing roles in the economy. The final lesson is a game which reviews the economic concepts taught in the curriculum.
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International News Journal (Middle)
This publication includes lessons to help students understand the US economic system and its relationship to the world economy. The activities are designed to fit many learning styles and to stimulate student interest in global affairs. The Teacher Resource Manual includes an overview, 34 lessons, unit reviews and essay questions, a glossary of economic terms, sample articles and informational items for use with the media, and blackline masters for 69 student activities.
399 . . . . . . . . . . $34.95
Kids Econ Posters-etc..
Use 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
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Learning, Earning and Investing (MS)
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! (16 lessons)
569-4a . . . . . . . . . . $19.95
Master Curriculum Guide: Teaching Strategies (5-6)
The 15 lessons in this teaching resource are designed to create interest in business through production activities, role plays, and market simulations. The lessons use models, flow charts, and graphs to study economic concepts. For each lesson, there is a summary of the economic content, a list of materials and preparation needed, instructions for teaching, and suggestions for reinforcing the economic concepts within other subject areas and through family activities, the newspaper, and community involvement.
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Mathematics and Economics Connections for Life (6-8)
This new curriculum created specifically for math teachers shows how mathematics concepts and knowledge can be used to develop economic and personal financial understandings. The 12 featured lessons can be applied to almost any math course. Each lesson is correlated to the National Standards for Mathematics and includes: numbers and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, data analysis and probability, problem solving, reasoning and proof, and communications connections.
603 . . . . . . . . . . $34.95
Partners in Prosperity – Community Decision Making (6-8)
A curriculum in a case-study format that investigates the economic impact of a new industry on a community and how economic development creates wealth. This eight lesson curriculum includes a pre/post test, an economic vocabulary list, an overview for the teacher, and student activities. Students will use decision making skills to determine uses for town resources; determine types of businesses in the community; and take part in a role play exercise for a town meeting.
207 . . . . . . . . . . $15.00
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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The Great Economic Mysteries Book (4-8)
The Great Economic Mysteries Books introduces students to an economic way of thinking through exploring the mysteries of everyday life. Students solve each mystery by responding to hints provided by simple true/false questions and by reference to a logical system of reasoning that applies basic economic principles. Each Teacher Guide provides 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.
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The Wide World of Trade (6-8)
Take your students on an enlightening economic journey around the globe and back with 11 action-packed activities. Designed to actively engage your inquisitive middle-school students, each lesson plan condenses abstract economic concepts into bite-size nuggets that your students will easily understand? and enjoy! And the step-by-step layout of each lesson walks you effortlessly through every key concept. You’ll confidently master each topic, plus you’ll deliver it quickly for a maximum impact.
136 . . . . . . . . . . $27.95
Trading Around the World (6-8)
This teacher resource is designed to supplement existing world geography and world history courses. The five units focus on economic survival, the importance of trade, GDP, productivity, and economic systems. Each unit is composed of three parts: basic instruction, group activities, and application of knowledge in the form of an individual project.
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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
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.
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What Economics Is About: Understanding the Basics
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Zooconomy II: Zoo Business (6-8)
Zooconomy II contains five lessons that develop analytical and critical-thinking skills through economics with an integration of science, mathematics, graphing skills, and language arts. In this unit, students learn about zoo goals and outputs, zoo inputs and organization, sources of zoo revenue, costs of production, profit, consumer demand, and zoo business decisions. Contains comprehensive teacher’s guide, student activities, and reproducible worksheets.
$32.00
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Zooconomy: Decisions (4-6)
The Zooconomy curriculum is designed to teach basic economic concepts to students within the context of the zoo. This 5-lesson curriculum examines goods and services, productive resources, scarcity, and decision making in the “real-world” context of planning a new zoo. Other integrated content areas include science, mathematics, and language arts. The curriculum contains several supplementary but optional student worksheets in the appendix and a pre/post test for assessment of student performance.
$35.00
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