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.

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Capstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Teacher's Guide and Student Activities Book (2 book set)
padCapstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Teacher's Guide and Student Activities Book (2 book set)
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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.
$59.95
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Advanced Placement Economics: Teacher Resource Manual, 3rd Edition
padAdvanced Placement Economics: Teacher Resource Manual, 3rd Edition
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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.
$64.95
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Virtual Economics: CD-ROM - Version 3.0
padVirtual Economics: CD-ROM - Version 3.0
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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.
$99.95
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Economics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School Economics
padEconomics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School Economics
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Economics in Action combines 14 favorite Council for Economic Education simulations, role-playing activities, group activities and classroom demonstrations in one volume.
$29.95
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Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics
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Help your students understand the role ethics plays in economics.
$39.95
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Risky Business: What Every Teenager Needs to Know About Living Smart - DVD
padRisky Business: What Every Teenager Needs to Know About Living Smart - DVD
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Use this DVD program to show students how to live healthy, wealthy and risk-free.
$129.95
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Focus: Globalization
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Give your students a balanced global perspective.
$39.95
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Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History
padFocus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History
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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.
$59.95
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Financing Your Future: A Complete Personal Finance Program on DVD For High School Teachers And Their Students
padFinancing Your Future: A Complete Personal Finance Program on DVD For High School Teachers And Their Students
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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.
$129.95
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Financial Fitness for Life Series - High School
padFinancial Fitness for Life Series - High School
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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.

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What Economics Is About: Understanding the Basics of Our Economic System
padWhat Economics Is About: Understanding the Basics of Our Economic System
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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.
$9.95
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Energy, Economics, and the Environment: Case Studies and Teaching Activities for High School
padEnergy, Economics, and the Environment: Case Studies and Teaching Activities for High School
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Analyze energy and environment issues from an economics perspective.
$27.95
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Thinking Economics: Version 3.0 - Building Site License
padThinking Economics: Version 3.0 - Building Site License
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This is a complete building license that gives all your students individualized economics content. You'll get 4 CD's that are packed with more than 25 hours of economics instruction and 76 interactive lessons that give your students a thorough understanding of economics.
$3,995.00
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Thinking Globally: Effective Lessons for Teaching about the Interdependent World Economy
padThinking Globally: Effective Lessons for Teaching about the Interdependent World Economy
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This CD-ROM contains eight lessons covering international topics.
$24.95
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Learning, Earning and Investing: High School
padLearning, Earning and Investing: High School
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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.
$24.95
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The Great High School Economic Package
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Focus: High School Economics
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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.
$34.95
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Your Credit Counts Challenge: Trainer's Guide
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This 6-unit publication provides a workshop to teach personal finance skills to adults so they can make wiser financial choices.
$22.95
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Focus: Institutions and Markets
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This publication provides lessons that use history, civics, government and economics activities to bring to life the institutions students read and hear about everyday.
$32.95
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Beyond Economic Growth - 2nd Edition
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Meeting the Challenges of Global Development
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Choices & Changes: In Life, School, and Work:  Grades 9-10 - Teacher Resource Manual
padChoices & Changes: In Life, School, and Work: Grades 9-10 - Teacher Resource Manual
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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.
$29.95
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The Great Economic Mysteries Book: A Guide to Teaching Economic Reasoning - Grades 9-12
padThe Great Economic Mysteries Book: A Guide to Teaching Economic Reasoning - Grades 9-12
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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.
$24.95
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Focus on Economics: Personal Decision Making
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Relate economics and personal finance to consumer, business, social, and personal choices.
$29.95
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Mathematics and Economics: Connections for Life - 9-12
padMathematics and Economics: Connections for Life - 9-12
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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.
$34.95
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Master Curriculum Guide: Economics and Entrepreneurship
padMaster Curriculum Guide: Economics and Entrepreneurship
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Combine economics education with entrepreneurship and business lessons.
$23.95
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Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Economy: Teacher Resource Manual
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Expand economic knowledge using business lessons.
$49.95
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Focus: Economic Systems
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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.
$32.95
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Focus: International Economics
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The study of international economic systems teaches about global production and competition, exchange rates, international finance, free trade vs. protectionism and economic development.
$32.95
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Economies in Transition: Command to Market
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In these lessons students learn about the challenges facing Central European, Baltic and former Soviet countries during their transition to market economies.
$19.95
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From Plan to Market: Teaching Ideas for Social Studies, Economics, and Business Classes
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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.
$24.95
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Focus on Economics: Geography
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Two geographical perspectives--spatial and ecological--give students an understanding of patterns, processes, and the interrelationships of living and nonliving elements.
$27.95
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Focus on Economics: Civics and Government
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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.
$25.95
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Focus on Economics: United States History
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Designed to supplement any high school history textbook, the lessons in this publication encourage students to use basic economic reasoning as an analytical tool to explore our social history and draw parallels to their own lives.
$27.95
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Focus on Economics: World History
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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.
$27.95
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Connecting the Pieces: Building a Better Economics Lesson
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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.
$19.95
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Economics and the Environment
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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.
$34.95
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Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics
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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.
$22.95
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A Framework for Teaching Basic Economic Concepts: With Scope and Sequence Guidelines, K-12
padA Framework for Teaching Basic Economic Concepts: With Scope and Sequence Guidelines, K-12
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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.
$24.95
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