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From elementary school to middle school to high school, you'll find the ideal economics, personal finance and entrepreneurship lesson plans for your classroom.

These supplemental, activity-based lesson plans give your students an applied understanding in economics and are easy to integrate into your K-12 curriculum.

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High School


Advanced Placement Economics: Teacher Resource Manual, 3rd Edition
Advanced Placement Economics: Teacher Resource Manual, 3rd Edition
The teacher guide accompanies the student activities books in macro- and microeconomics for teaching college-level economics in AP Economics courses. The publication contains course outlines, unit plans, teaching instructions, and answers to the student activities and sample tests.
Grades: 9-12 | Price: $64.95

Advanced Placement Economics: Macroeconomics Student Activities Workbook, 3rd Edition
Advanced Placement Economics: Macroeconomics Student Activities Workbook, 3rd Edition
This publication contains 55 activities that teach college-level macroeconomics to students in AP Economics classes.
Grades: 9-12 | Price: $24.95

Advanced Placement Economics: Microeconomics Student Activities Workbook,  3rd Edition
Advanced Placement Economics: Microeconomics Student Activities Workbook, 3rd Edition
For use in AP Economics, IB or Honors classes, these college-level activities, worksheets and readings prepare students for the AP Microeconomics exam. For 11th and 12th grades.
Grades: 9-12 | Price: $24.95

Capstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Teacher's Guide and Student Activities Book (2 book set)
Capstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Teacher's Guide and Student Activities Book (2 book set)
This high school economics program uses supplemental lesson plans, activities, simulations and group projects to demonstrate market-based economics concepts. Designed for high school economics, business and marketing teachers.
Grades: 9-12 | Price: $59.95

Capstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Student Activities Workbook
Capstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Student Activities Workbook
Student activities, worksheets and simulations that accompany the 'Capstone' high school economics program. For 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades.
Grades: 9-12 | Price: $17.95

Economics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School Economics
Economics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School Economics
Economics in Action combines 14 favorite Council for Economic Education simulations, role-playing activities, group activities and classroom demonstrations in one volume.
Grades: 9-12 | Price: $29.95

Entrepreneurship Economics
Entrepreneurship Economics
Entrepreneurship Economics contains 11 lessons featuring student-centered instructional methods on economic activity and how entrepreneurs benefit society. This teacher resource provides the conceptual framework you need to cover entrepreneurship and economics topics in an engaging way, including case studies, activities and assessments.
Grades: 9-12 | Price: $19.95

Focus: High School Economics
Focus: High School Economics
This revised edition features simulations, role plays, small-group discussions and other active-learning instructional activities to help students explore economic concepts through real-life applications.
Grades: 9-12 | Price: $34.95

Teaching Financial Crises
Teaching Financial Crises
Teaching Financial Crises is 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.
Grades: 9-12 | Price: $19.95

Virtual Economics: Version 4.0 -  CD-ROM
Virtual Economics: Version 4.0 - CD-ROM
Version 4, available on CD-ROM or Flash drive, contains over 1,400 activity-based lessons from more than 75 publications, 51 key economic concepts, and a glossary with over 500 terms. This is a resource every economics teacher should have.
Grades: K-12 | Price: $99.95

Virtual Economics: Version 4.0 - USB Flash Drive
Virtual Economics: Version 4.0 - USB Flash Drive
Version 4, available on CD-ROM or Flash drive, contains over 1,400 activity-based lessons from more than 75 publications, 51 key economic concepts, and a glossary with over 500 terms. This is a resource every economics teacher should have.
Grades: K-12 | Price: $109.95

Middle School


Focus: Middle School Economics
Focus: Middle School Economics
A basic economics curriculum for middle school grades.
Grades: 6-8 | Price: $29.95

Virtual Economics: Version 4.0 -  CD-ROM
Virtual Economics: Version 4.0 - CD-ROM
Version 4, available on CD-ROM or Flash drive, contains over 1,400 activity-based lessons from more than 75 publications, 51 key economic concepts, and a glossary with over 500 terms. This is a resource every economics teacher should have.
Grades: K-12 | Price: $99.95

Virtual Economics: Version 4.0 - USB Flash Drive
Virtual Economics: Version 4.0 - USB Flash Drive
Version 4, available on CD-ROM or Flash drive, contains over 1,400 activity-based lessons from more than 75 publications, 51 key economic concepts, and a glossary with over 500 terms. This is a resource every economics teacher should have.
Grades: K-12 | Price: $109.95

Elementary School


Virtual Economics: Version 4.0 -  CD-ROM
Virtual Economics: Version 4.0 - CD-ROM
Version 4, available on CD-ROM or Flash drive, contains over 1,400 activity-based lessons from more than 75 publications, 51 key economic concepts, and a glossary with over 500 terms. This is a resource every economics teacher should have.
Grades: K-12 | Price: $99.95

Virtual Economics: Version 4.0 - USB Flash Drive
Virtual Economics: Version 4.0 - USB Flash Drive
Version 4, available on CD-ROM or Flash drive, contains over 1,400 activity-based lessons from more than 75 publications, 51 key economic concepts, and a glossary with over 500 terms. This is a resource every economics teacher should have.
Grades: K-12 | Price: $109.95


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