High School Lesson Plans

Whether you're looking for college-level exercises for your AP Economics course; need supplemental activities to support and enhance your high school curriculum; or want to teach your students the basics of personal finance, you'll find supplemental lesson plans and student workbooks that make teaching economics, personal finance and entrepreneurship easy.

Focus: Understanding Economics in Civics and Government
Focus: Understanding Economics in Civics and Government

Now, you can give your Civics and Government course a new, active-learning dimension that easily examines the role economics plays in government.
Grades: 9-12
$59.95 Sale Price: $29.98  

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
$59.95 Sale Price: $29.98  

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
$64.95 Sale Price: $32.48  

Virtual Economics: CD-ROM - Version 3.0
Virtual Economics: CD-ROM - Version 3.0

This CD-ROM contains over 1,200 activity-based lessons, 51 key economic concepts, and a glossary with over 500 terms. This is a resource every economics teacher should have.
Grades: K-12
$99.95 Sale Price: $49.98  

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
$29.95 Sale Price: $14.98  

Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics
Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics

Help your students understand the role ethics plays in economics.
Grades: 9-12
$39.95 Sale Price: $19.98  

Risky Business: What Every Teenager Needs to Know About Living Smart - DVD
Risky Business: What Every Teenager Needs to Know About Living Smart - DVD

Use this DVD program to show students how to live healthy, wealthy and risk-free.
Grades: 9-12
$129.95 Sale Price: $64.98  

Focus: Globalization
Focus: Globalization

Give your students a balanced global perspective.
Grades: 9-12
$39.95 Sale Price: $19.98  

Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History
Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History

Use a unique mix of past events and current, real-world scenarios to draw a picture of U.S. History that your students can easily relate to.
Grades: 9-12
$59.95 Sale Price: $29.98  

Financing Your Future: A Complete Personal Finance Program on DVD For High School Teachers And Their Students
Financing Your Future: A Complete Personal Finance Program on DVD For High School Teachers And Their Students

This is a complete personal finance program on DVD for high school teachers and their students. This personal finance program contains five videos that cover topics such as investing in one's own human capital, developing a banking relationship, understanding credit and debt, and creating a budget. Each video is complemented with three standards-based classroom lesson plans that teachers, parents and mentors can use to reinforce the concepts demonstrated in the videos.
Grades: 9-12
$129.95 Sale Price: $64.98  

Financial Fitness for Life Series - High School
Financial Fitness for Life Series - High School

Financial Fitness for Life is a multifaceted, comprehensive economic and financial literacy program for grades K-12. The Financial Series includes Teacher Guides, Student Activities, Assessments, Parent Guides, and an interactive CD-ROM.
Grades:


What Economics Is About: Understanding the Basics of Our Economic System
What Economics Is About: Understanding the Basics of Our Economic System

This booklet details the fundamental economics problem -- scarcity -- and introduces students to the terms and content that are necessary for a more advanced understanding of economics. In addition to background reading content for teachers and advanced students, the visuals can be used with students to introduce them to economics.
Grades: K-12
$9.95 Sale Price: $4.98  

Energy, Economics, and the Environment: Case Studies and Teaching Activities for High School
Energy, Economics, and the Environment: Case Studies and Teaching Activities for High School

Analyze energy and environment issues from an economics perspective.
Grades: 9-12
$27.95 Sale Price: $13.98  

Thinking Economics: Version 3.0 - Building Site License
Thinking Economics: Version 3.0 - Building Site License

This is a complete building license that gives all your students individualized economics content. You'll get 4 CDs that are packed with more than 25 hours of economics instruction and 76 interactive lessons that give your students a thorough understanding of economics.
Grades: 9-12
$3,995.00

Thinking Globally: Effective Lessons for Teaching about the Interdependent World Economy
Thinking Globally: Effective Lessons for Teaching about the Interdependent World Economy

This CD-ROM contains eight lessons covering international topics.
Grades: 9-12
$24.95 Sale Price: $12.48  

Learning, Earning and Investing: High School
Learning, Earning and Investing: High School

This publication contains 23 lessons that introduce high school students to the world of investing--its benefits and risks and the critical role it plays in fostering capital formation and job creation in our free market system.
Grades: 9-12
$24.95 Sale Price: $12.48  

The Great High School Economic Package
The Great High School Economic Package

Three great publications for teaching high school economics!
Grades: 9-12
$89.95 Sale Price: $44.98  

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
$34.95 Sale Price: $17.48  

Your Credit Counts Challenge: Trainer's Guide
Your Credit Counts Challenge: Trainer's Guide

This 6-unit publication provides a workshop to teach personal finance skills to adults so they can make wiser financial choices.
Grades: 7th - Adults
$22.95 Sale Price: $11.48  

Focus: Institutions and Markets
Focus: Institutions and Markets

This publication provides lessons that use history, civics, government and economics activities to bring to life the institutions students read and hear about everyday.
Grades: 9-12
$32.95 Sale Price: $16.48  

Beyond Economic Growth - 2nd Edition
Beyond Economic Growth - 2nd Edition

Meeting the Challenges of Global Development
Grades: 6-12
$25.00 Sale: $20.00 Sale Price: $12.5  

Choices & Changes: In Life, School, and Work:  Grades 9-10 - Teacher Resource Manual
Choices & Changes: In Life, School, and Work: Grades 9-10 - Teacher Resource Manual

Show your middle school students the power of education... why they should stay in school. This life skills program includes lesson plans and a writing journal for students. For 9th and 10th grades.
Grades: 9-10
$29.95 Sale Price: $14.98  

The Great Economic Mysteries Book: A Guide to Teaching Economic Reasoning - Grades 9-12
The Great Economic Mysteries Book: A Guide to Teaching Economic Reasoning - Grades 9-12

High school students solve engaging mysteries about current events, government and the environment by responding to hints and by applying an economic way of thinking.
Grades: 9-12
$24.95 Sale Price: $12.48  

Focus on Economics: Personal Decision Making
Focus on Economics: Personal Decision Making

Relate economics and personal finance to consumer, business, social, and personal choices.
Grades: 9-12
$29.95 Sale Price: $14.98  

Mathematics and Economics: Connections for Life - 9-12
Mathematics and Economics: Connections for Life - 9-12

Created specifically for high school mathematics teachers, this publication shows how mathematics concepts and knowledge can be used to develop economic and personal financial understandings.
Grades: 9-12
$34.95 Sale Price: $17.48  

Master Curriculum Guide: Economics and Entrepreneurship
Master Curriculum Guide: Economics and Entrepreneurship

Combine economics education with entrepreneurship and business lessons.
Grades: 9-12
$23.95 Sale Price: $11.98  

Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Economy: Teacher Resource Manual
Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Economy: Teacher Resource Manual

Expand economic knowledge using business lessons.
Grades: 9-12
$49.95 Sale Price: $24.98  

Focus: Economic Systems
Focus: Economic Systems

Students use a comparative approach to explore concepts and materials that are frequently neglected in other economics courses. An introductory essay provides background information to the 12 classroom-ready lessons.
Grades: 9-12
$32.95 Sale Price: $16.48  

Focus: International Economics
Focus: International Economics

The study of international economic systems teaches about global production and competition, exchange rates, international finance, free trade vs. protectionism and economic development.
Grades: 9-12
$32.95 Sale Price: $16.48  

Economies in Transition: Command to Market
Economies in Transition: Command to Market

In these lessons students learn about the challenges facing Central European, Baltic and former Soviet countries during their transition to market economies.
Grades: 9-12
$19.95 Sale Price: $9.98  

From Plan to Market: Teaching Ideas for Social Studies, Economics, and Business Classes
From Plan to Market: Teaching Ideas for Social Studies, Economics, and Business Classes

Drawing on data from the World Bank's "World Development Report 1996," this guide focuses on the transition from central planning to markets in Central and Eastern Europe, the independent states of the former Soviet Union and China.
Grades: 9-12
$24.95 Sale Price: $12.48  

Focus on Economics: Geography
Focus on Economics: Geography

Two geographical perspectives--spatial and ecological--give students an understanding of patterns, processes, and the interrelationships of living and nonliving elements.
Grades: 9-12
$27.95 Sale Price: $14.98  

Focus on Economics: Civics and Government
Focus on Economics: Civics and Government

Is economic freedom a necessary condition for political freedom? What can the government do about unemployment? Why would governments limit international trade? Students use questions such as these to help them make essential connections between economics and civics/government.
Grades: 9-12
$25.95 Sale Price: $12.98  

Focus on Economics: World History
Focus on Economics: World History

With lessons combining economics and world history, students discover how people and nations developed as a result of making decisions based on maximizing local resources.
Grades: 9-12
$27.95 Sale Price: $13.98  

Connecting the Pieces: Building a Better Economics Lesson
Connecting the Pieces: Building a Better Economics Lesson

This 8-chapter guide for curriculum developers and teachers covers integrating economics across the K-12 curriculum; effective teaching strategies; models for active teaching and learning; basics in lesson writing; and classroom assessment.
Grades: K-12
$19.95 Sale Price: $9.98  

Economics and the Environment
Economics and the Environment

Teachers and students learn about the complementary relationship between their own economic well-being and the natural resources of the environment. The lessons can be used in high school economics, environmental studies, social issues and natural science courses.
Grades: 9-12
$34.95 Sale Price: $17.48  

Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics
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.
Grades: 4-12
$22.95 Sale Price: $11.48  

A Framework for Teaching Basic Economic Concepts: With Scope and Sequence Guidelines, K-12
A Framework for Teaching Basic Economic Concepts: With Scope and Sequence Guidelines, K-12

This companion to the National Content Standards provides definitions and explanations of key economic concepts as well as scope and sequence guidelines for teaching economics concepts within the K-12 curriculum.
Grades: K-12
$24.95 Sale Price: $12.48