A Few Resources That I Have Found
(Number 4 is particularly fun)
a. This
site made by Rutgers university has a list of picture books that can be used to
teach economic concepts like markets, competition, scarcity, and opportunity cost,
some of the books seem pretty interesting.
a. This
site has some lessons for a few of the books listed in the last link as well as
some resources that can go with them.
a. This
website has fun posters on economic concepts for sale or for copying the image
into a document and printing it on the sly. For example, there is the “interest
can work for you” poster with a happy girl climbing a mountain, and “interest
can work against you” with a despondent boy climbing out of a hole.
a. This
site has some songs about economic consequences sung to classic tunes. For
example, one of my favorites is, “consumers and producers” to the tune of the
more we get together.
a. This
is an interesting study done by Rutgers university on teaching economics through
literacy, and how to develop this project.
a. This
is the education wing of the Federal Reserve, it has lessons and publications
that teachers can look at for their classroom sorted by grade.
a. Edutopia
has some nifty resources on teaching students about finances.
a. This
nifty site has curriculum on it, some you need to pay for. The nicest part is
that it is all aligned with common core standards.
a. The
national council for the social studies provides some interesting links to
further resources and research.
a. The
Washington state council for the social studies does not at this time have many
resources for economics, but it does have a place for members to share
resources and a category for economics that they have expressed they are trying
to fill, so this may become a more useful resource.
