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What Economics Is About: Understanding the Basics of Our Economic System
Designed for teachers at every grade level and in all disciplines, this publication is a simple, time-saving way to teach the fundamental economics content every K-12 student needs to know.
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Assessments
Test of Understanding in College Economics
These publications are an essential measuring instrument for college-level instructors of introductory economic courses.
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Choices and Changes: In Life, School, and Work
Show your students the value of education and why they should stay in school. This life skills program includes lesson plans and a writing journal for 5th and 6th grade students.
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Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics
This publication contains 10 lessons that teach about the important role ethics and character play in a market economy and how, in turn, markets influence ethical behavior.
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Assessments
Basic Economics Test: Grades 5-6
The Basic Economics Test for Grade 5-6 measures the economic understanding of intermediate elementary students, and the booklets are available in two forms.
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What Personal Finance Is About
Using easy-to-understand examples and terminology, students discover how to apply today’s economic principles to daily life.
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Teaching Financial Crises
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.
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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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Learning, Earning and Investing
This publication introduces high school and middle school students to the critical role investing plays in our free market system.
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From Plan to Market
Drawing on data from the World Bank’s “World Development Report 1996,” this guide focuses on the transition from central planning to markets in the independent states of the former Soviet Union and China.
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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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Focus: Understanding Economics in Civics and Government
Give your Civics and Government course a new, active-learning dimension that easily examines the role economics plays in government.
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