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How and Why: a curriculum roadmap for teaching K-12 economics

Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics

Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics     [+] larger image
Grade: 4-12   Standards: 20
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Pages: 108    Copyright: 1997
Order #: 0433    ISBN: 1-56183-433-5

Overview

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.


Detailed Information

This essential guide for curriculum developers – department chairs, superintendents, teachers, education professors – was designed to teach our nation's schoolchildren about basic economics and the economy. Helping young people develop economic ways of thinking and problem solving prepares them to be wise consumers, investors, and savers.The volume contains:
  • 20 Content Standards
    The most important and enduring ideas, concepts, and issues of economics
  • Essential Reasoning and Decision-making Skills
    Practical applications of economics knowledge for the graduating student
  • Rationales
    Explanations of how understanding each principleimproves students' lives
  • Benchmarks
    Expected achievement levels for grades 4, 8, and 12, with assessment exercises
  • Correlations
    Citing EconomicsAmerica lessons to demonstrate principles


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