OverviewBundle of "Focus: Middle School Economics," "Play Dough Economics" and "The Wide World of Trade."
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Infuse need-to-know economics and personal finance concepts into your curriculum with a series of print and CD-based materials. Discover how teaching concepts like, trade, opportunity cost and scarcity is easy with hands-on lesson plans, interactive activities, crystal clear visuals and helpful assessments. Plus, never search for another economics and personal finance lesson plan again...With just a click of the mouse explore over 1,200 CD and web-based economics and personal finance lesson plans by concept, grade level and national content standards.
Master Economics Basics With Modeling Clay
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Play Dough Economics
Discover how something as fun as play dough can help you teach economics. Its Easy, just roll up your sleeves, whip up a simple play dough recipe and watch as your students create items to sell and barter all while they learn concepts like opportunity cost, scarcity, specialization and about money. With 15 lesson plans, tons of teaching ideas, and post and pre-tests, Play Dough Economics is a must-have guide to mastering basic economics and personal finance concepts.
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Develop Economic Reasoning with Real-World Scenarios
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Focus: Middle School Economics
Now that your students understand the basics, show them how the real-world applies. Explore 6 different societal roles from the life-long decision maker to the global participant, and delve deeper into concepts like supply and demand, opportunity cost and trade barriers to strengthen your students economic reasoning. With 6 lessons plans and a helpful glossary, guide you students to important economic knowledge and critical thinking skills.
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Explore the Global Economy with Economic and Finance Concepts
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The Wide World of Trade
Cruise the globe with 11-action packed activities designed to give your students understanding of finance and the global economy and its effects on them and their decisions. Exercise essential skills like problem solving, team work, role playing and critical thinking, and prepare your students for real-world decisions they will encounter in everyday life.
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As a bonus, you’ll get 11 knowledge-packed
posters when you add Virtual Economics to your
K-2, 3-5 or 6-8 Teacher Prep Kit package. These
colorful, 12x18 posters cover key economic
concepts and include a Teacher’s Guide with a
lesson and literature connection for each poster.
Browse more Economics and Personal Finance Lesson Plans on CD
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Virtual Economics
You want to do the fun part...teaching. Virtual Economics makes searching for economics and personal finance lessons easy. Choose from a CD database of over 389 lesson plans easily searchable by concept, keyword or publication, and discover ready-to-use lesson plans and multimedia clips with just a click of your mouse.
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