Curation: Teaching Economics in Elementary School

 A Few Resources That I Have Found

(Number 4 is particularly fun)

1.      http://econkids.rutgers.edu/top-5-books-by-concept-econmenu-155

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.

2.      http://www.kidseconposters.com/literature-connection/

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.

3.      http://www.kidseconposters.com/landing-page/posters/

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.

4.      http://www.kidseconposters.com/activites-and-games/sing-a-longs/

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.

5.      http://econkids.rutgers.edu/images/pdf/final_draft_reading_teacher.pdf

a.       This is an interesting study done by Rutgers university on teaching economics through literacy, and how to develop this project.

6.      https://www.federalreserveeducation.org/

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.

7.      http://www.edutopia.org/stw-financial-literacy-resources-lesson-plans

a.       Edutopia has some nifty resources on teaching students about finances.

8.      http://www.councilforeconed.org/

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.

9.      http://www.socialstudies.org/economics

a.       The national council for the social studies provides some interesting links to further resources and research.

10.  http://www.wscss.org/lesson-plans/

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.