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K-12 Standards
Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics
The essential guide for curriculum developers, administrators, teachers, and education and economics professors, the standards provide a framework and benchmarks for teaching economics to K-12 students.
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Energy, Economics, and the Environment
Challenge your students with activities that enable them to analyze energy and environment issues from an economics perspective.
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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 basic economic concepts.
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The Great Economic Mysteries Book
Introduce students to an economic way of thinking as they solve mysteries by responding to hints and referencing a logical system of reasoning that applies basic economic principles.
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Middle School World Geography: Focus on Economics
Blends the disciplines of geography and economics through 9 activity-based lessons for middle school students. Hands-on activities use maps, data, charts, graphs, tables, documents and more.
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Assessments
Test of Economic Knowledge: Grades 7-9
Measure the economic understanding of your 7th, 8th and 9th grade students. Booklets have 40 questions each and the examiner’s manual contains detailed explanations of each question and answer.
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Mathematics and Economics: Connections for Life
Show students how mathematics concepts and knowledge can be used to understand economics and personal finance.
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Focus: Middle School Economics
Middle school students apply economics concepts and reasoning to real-world situations in a series of interactive units pertaining to 6 societal roles as decision-makers, consumers, workers, citizens, savers, and global participants.
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Hands on Banking
This resource is a free, fun financial education program that presents the basics of smart money management in an easy-to use format.
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Connecting the Pieces: Building a Better Economics Lesson
This guide for curriculum developers and teachers covers integrating economics across the K-12 curriculum, effective teaching strategies, basics in lesson writing, and more.
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Economics and the Environment: EcoDetectives
A 15-lesson curriculum designed to show how teachers and students can use economic reasoning in efforts to describe and explain important environmental problems.
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Financial Fitness for Life Parent Guides
The Financial Fitness for Life Parent Guides contain fun activities that parents and students can do together to enhance learning, available in English and Spanish.
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