All Council for Economic Education Publications

View all the current publication from the Council for Economic Education. These publications range in grade from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Click on the links below to filter the publications or click on the book cover to view the publication on the Council for Economic Education's Online Store.

Choices and Changes: In Life, School, and Work - Grades 5-6 - Teacher

Choices and Changes: In Life, School, and 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.

Economics and the Environment: Ecodetectives

Economics and the Environment: Ecodetectives

Students use economic reasoning to investigate 15 environmental mysteries.

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

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.

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

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: Test Examiner

Financial Fitness for Life: Test Examiner's Manual - Grades 3-5

These grades 3-5 assessments can be used with Financial Fitness for Life or any other curriculum materials you're using to teach personal finance. You'll measure your students' progress in four key areas of personal finance: earning an income, saving, spending and credit, and money management.

Focus: Economics - Grades 3-5

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: Middle School World History

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.

Mathematics & Economics: Connections for Life - 3-5

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.

Teaching Economics Using Children

Teaching Economics Using Children's Literature

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

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

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.