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Advanced Placement Economics: Teacher Resource Manual

The teacher guide accompanies the student activities books in macro- and microeconomics for teaching college-level economics in AP Economics courses. The publication contains course outlines, unit plans, teaching instructions, and answers to the student activities and sample tests.

Capstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Teacher's Guide

This publication contains complete instructions for teaching the lessons in Capstone. When combined with a textbook, Capstone provides activities for a complete high school economics course. 45 exemplary lessons help students learn to apply economic reasoning to a wide range of real-world subjects.

Choices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 5-6 - Teacher's Resource Manual

This publication contains complete instructions for teaching the lessons in Choices and Changes, Grades 5-6. The Choices and Changes series is designed to help students understand how the U.S. economy works and their roles in the economy as consumers, savers and workers.

Connecting the Pieces: Building a Better Economics Lesson

This 8-chapter guide for curriculum developers and teachers covers integrating economics across the K-12 curriculum; effective teaching strategies; models for active teaching and learning; basics in lesson writing; and classroom assessment.

Economics & Entrepreneurship: Operating a Classroom Business in the Elementary and Middle School

This revised and updated "how to" guide is a great way to start a classroom business with your students.

Economics and the Environment: Ecodetectives

Students use economic reasoning to investigate 15 environmental mysteries.

Economics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School Economics

Economics in Action combines 14 favorite CEE simulations, role-playing activities, group activities and classroom demonstrations in one volume.

Energy, Economics, and the Environment: Case Studies and Teaching Activities for Elementary School

This publication helps elementary students analyze energy and environment issues from an economics perspective.

Energy, Economics, and the Environment: Case Studies and Teaching Activities for High School

This publication helps students analyze energy and environment issues from an economics perspective.

Financial Fitness for Life: Bringing Home the Gold - Grades 9-12 - Teacher Guide

Bringing Home the Gold contains 22 activity-based lessons for high school students. Students make important financial decisions about earning an income, saving and spending, using credit and budgeting. This publication contains instructions for teaching the lessons.

Financial Fitness for Life: Grades 3-5 - Teacher Guide

This publication contains 15 lessons that complement the 3-5 Student Workbook. Specific to grades 3-5 are a variety of activities, including a guessing game using clues to identify various occupations; the story Urban Mouse and Rural Mouse which teaches students about entrepreneurs and opportunity recognition; and a role-playing activity in which students learn which method of payment is appropriate in a variety of situations.

Financial Fitness for Life: K-2 - Teacher Guide

This publication contains 16 stories that complement the K-2 Student Storybook. Specific to grades K-2 are a variety of activities, including making coins out of salt dough or cookie dough; a song that teaches students about opportunity cost and decisions; and a game in which students learn the importance of savings.

Focus: Economic Systems

Students use a comparative approach to explore concepts and materials that are frequently neglected in other economics courses. An introductory essay provides background information to the 12 classroom-ready lessons.

Focus: Economics - Grades 3-5

This publication contains fourteen lessons that use a unique blend of games, simulations, and role playing to illustrate economics in a way elementary students will enjoy.

Focus: Economics - Grades K-2

This publication contains ten lessons that can be used with K-2 students to teach them basic economic concepts.

Focus: Globalization

This publication contains 12 lessons to help you integrate globalization concepts into your Social Studies, Economics, or Global Studies course.

Focus: High School Economics

This revised edition features simulations, role plays, small-group discussions and other active-learning instructional activities to help students explore economic concepts through real-life applications.

Focus: Institutions and Markets

This publication provides lessons that use history, civics, government and economics activities to bring to life the institutions students read and hear about everyday.

Focus: International Economics

The study of international economic systems teaches about global production and competition, exchange rates, international finance, free trade vs. protectionism and economic development.

Focus: Middle School Economics

Students apply economics concepts and economic reasoning to real-world situations in a series of interactive units pertaining to 6 societal roles.

Focus: Middle School World History

Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History uses a unique mystery-solving approach to teach U.S. economic history to your high school students.

Focus: Understanding Economics in Civics and Government

This publication contains 20 lessons designed to provide an economic insight into topics typically covered in may civics and government classes.

Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History

Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History uses a unique mystery-solving approach to teach U.S. economic history to your high school students.

From Plan to Market: Teaching Ideas for Social Studies, Economics, and Business Classes

Drawing on data from the World Bank's "World Development Report 1996," this guide focuses on the transition from central planning to markets in Central and Eastern Europe, the independent states of the former Soviet Union and China.

Learning, Earning and Investing: High School

This publication contains 23 lessons that introduce high school students to the world of investing--its benefits and risks and the critical role it plays in fostering capital formation and job creation in our free market system.

Learning, Earning and Investing: Middle School

This publication contain 16 lessons that introduce middle school students to the world of investing, its benefits and risks, and the critical role it plays in fostering capital formation and job creation in our free market system.

Mathematics & Economics: Connections for Life - 3-5

Mathematics & Economics: Connections for Life answers this question by using "real world" economics and personal finance applications to create a set of 12 hands-on and dynamic mathematics lessons for grades 3-5.

Mathematics & Economics: Connections for Life - 6-8

Created specifically for middle school mathematics teachers, this publication shows how mathematics concepts and knowledge can be used to develop economic and personal financial understandings.

Mathematics & Economics: Connections for Life - 9-12

Created specifically for high school mathematics teachers, this publication shows how mathematics concepts and knowledge can be used to develop economic and personal financial understandings.

Middle School World Geography: Focus on Economics

This publication blends the disciplines of geography and economics through 9 activity-based lessons for middle school students.

Teaching Economics Using Children's Literature

This interdisciplinary curriculum guide helps teachers introduce their students to economics using popular children's stories.

Teaching Financial Crises

Teaching Financial Crises is an eight lesson resource that provides an organizing framework in which to contextualize all of the media attention that has been paid to the recent financial crisis, as well as put it in a historical context. The current events stories, opinion pieces, and other popular media pieces that are today in great supply have generally not connected to educational objectives, historical analysis, and economic processes and concepts that are used in the high school classroom. In Teaching Financial Crises, teachers will find a non-partisan and non-ideological resource to help them simplify and offer balanced perspectives on this challenging subject matter.

Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics

This publication contains 10 lessons that reintroduce an ethical dimension to economics in the tradition of Adam Smith, who believed ethical considerations were central to life.

The Classroom Mini-Economy

A hands-on guide to starting and managing a successful classroom economy.

The Great Economic Mysteries Book: A Guide to Teaching Economic Reasoning, Grades 4-8

This publication introduces students in grades 4-8 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.

The Great Economic Mysteries Book: A Guide to Teaching Economic Reasoning, Grades 9-12

High school students solve engaging mysteries about current events, government and the environment by responding to hints and by applying an economic way of thinking.

The Wide World of Trade

This publication has 11 lessons designed to teach middle school students the basics of world trade and international finance.

Trading Around the World

Created as a supplement to existing middle school world geography and world history courses, the 5 units in this guide introduce students to the basics of global trade.

What Economics Is About: Understanding the Basics of Our Economic System

This publication gives a very concise explanation of key economic concepts.

What Personal Finance Is About: The Economics of Financial Decision Making

This thorough and concise guide on the fundamentals of personal finance is an ideal addition to K-12 classrooms. Elementary teachers can use this resource to walk their students through an introduction to personal finance, and middle and high school teachers can use it as a student reader. Using easy-to-understand examples, students explore important personal finance content and terminology, and discover how to apply today's economic principles to daily life.