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Economics Resources/Websites



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Select lessons by Kentucky standard, economic concept, and grade level!

What is it? EconEdLink is a National Council on Economic Education website that provides a premier source of classroom-tested, Internet-based economic and personal finance lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students. With over 662 lessons to choose from, teachers can use as many of the lessons as they would like and as often as they would like.

Who is it for? The Internet-based lessons are targeted for K-12 teachers and their students. Each of the lessons includes a teacher's version as well as a student's version. Each of the lessons are designed to be delivered in a variety of formats and classroom settings.

Interactives: EconEdLink maintains a large library of online interactive tools for teaching economics, personal finance and entrepreneurship in grades K-12. These interactive tools include videos and game-like activities.

Videos: “Making Sense with Paul Solmon” - Paul Solman has been a business and economics consultant for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer since 1985. As a part of The NewsHour, Paul does a 7-10 minute video segment called, Making Sen$e. These Making Sen$e video segments cover current topics in economics and personal finance and are a great way to bring real-world examples in to your classroom.

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EcEdWeb, the Economic Education Web, is your portal to economic education resources in all forms and at all levels. Select from the menus above and left to find exciting and informative material for teaching economics. The K-5 Economics and 6-12 Economics navigation menus are organized so that you can locate resources by grade and economic concept, national and state (NE) standards. There is also an excellent Nebraska K-6 curriculum map, which could easily be correlated to a Kentucky curriculum map.

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This site from the Indiana Council on Economic Education promotes using their KidsEcon Posters, but it also has great economics lessons based on children’s literature (elementary/middle).

Economics and Childrens’ Literature: From the Literature Connection link, you can access specific lessons based on popular children’s books that will help you teach economics concepts to your students. The heart of each lesson is a set of guided questions about economic concepts found in the book. As you will notice, some books can be used to teach several different concepts. Many of the lessons were created by Kentucky teachers.

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Economics integrates across all curriculums, and what more fun that integrating economics and singing!

Old Tunes with an Economics Twist © 1997

by Martha C. Hopkins, James Madison University Center for Economic Education

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Lessons and Units for K-12, as well as recommended websites and simulations for teaching economics and personal finance. Check out the games/reviews link for interactive Jeopardies, quizzes, and crosswords.

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The James Madison Center for Economic Education has compiled a collection of economics online and print lessons for elementary, middle, and high school. Check out the Econsongbook!

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Bessie B. Moore Economic Education Center

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Find lessons in: Children’s Literature -- Today’s Economy -- Entrepreneurship --

Financial Literacy -- Globalization -- Other

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This site offers a comprehensive overview of global economic history from the beginning of the First World War through 2002. Along with a six-hour video narrative divided into short chapters, it includes extensive interviews, essays, charts, reports, an interactive atlas of history, and economic data related to the topics of globalization, economic development, and international trade. The materials on this site are organized and interlinked in a manner that supports both classroom use and independent study activities.

The site can be used both as a primary teaching "text" to introduce students to important events and ideas related to political economy, and also as a secondary resource to foster critical thinking about economic issues through structured research and comparison of outcomes.

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is dedicated to providing students with information and interdisciplinary learning opportunities on this complex phenomenon. Our goal is to challenge you to think about many of the controversies surrounding globalization and to promote an understanding of the trade-offs and dilemmas facing policy-makers.

Please visit one or more of our 15 Issues In Depth: Trade, Technology, Investment, Health, Culture, Environment, Migration, IMF and World Bank, Development, Women, International Law, Energy, Human Rights, Education, and Media.

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In The Stock Market Game™ (SMG), student teams in grades 4-12 receive a virtual $100,000 to invest in stocks and mutual funds using a real-world Internet simulation. SMG can be taught as an enrichment activity, a project-based activity, or teams of teachers can incorporate different

aspects of SMG into their own curriculum as an interdisciplinary project. The Stock Market Game Program is an online educational program (and competition!) offered by the Kentucky Council on Economic Education for over 20 years, and used in classrooms to help teach math, social studies, business, economics, technology and reading/writing skills. The program is offered each Fall and Spring semester. Over 10,000 students participate annually! The fee is $10/team (typically 3-5 students per team).

Take Stock in Kentucky - Gr. 4-12

In this Take Stock in Kentucky competition, students use the same Internet simulation as the Stock Market Game, but will invest only in Kentucky companies. Teams of 2-6 students will build a portfolio of Kentucky investments starting with $100,000 in imaginary funds over a period of 10 weeks.  The companies they will research and invest in are headquartered in Kentucky, companies that have state offices or subsidiaries, or companies that are of special interest to the economy of Kentucky.  Use with your curriculum unit on Kentucky!!

We have kept the list to around 200 stocks - in order for students to be able to focus on a relatively small group of companies on which to base their research. This is a great opportunity for students to learn about business in their local community and Kentucky economics.

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KCEE Pre/Post – FREE - The Kentucky Council on Economic Education offers this online economics testing center free to Kentucky teachers and students.

SIMPLE -. There is no need for your students to register. You simply create a teacher’s account and then create your online class. It’s quick and easy. Your students can then login and take an assessment. Tests available for K-12 in economics and/or personal finance. Create your teacher account today!

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Lessons and Activities - Try some of these WINNING lesson plans and classroom activities for teaching economics, entrepreneurship or personal finance.

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Econ Ed Live Online Learning - Looking for online courses for your students? This collection of new and improved resources will help bring economics lessons to life for your students with interactive activities, online courses, podcasts and more. Watch as we continue to add new online courses. To register your students for these courses, visit the Instructor Management Panel.

Also, check out “Resource Guide Plus” for more print and online lessons and resources from the Federal Reserve System .

Economic lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school

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