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Resources
Lesson Plans
EconomicsWisconsin's Online Guide - search by grade level or standard
EconomicsWisconsin's Message Boards for Teachers
NCEE Online Lessons - search by grade level, economic concept or standard
Lesson Plans for All Ages
Activities and Lessons for Young Students
Online Activities for High School Students
WebQuests - for all ages
Book List - stories to promote financial literacy
Stock Market Game lesson plans
Textbooks - from the National Council on Economic Education
Free Financial Literacy and Economic Multi-media
Other
Economic and Personal Finance Textbooks
Certification Requirements to Obtain an Economics Teaching License
Curricula Guide:"Personal Finance Topics & Materials for Economics, Business & Family and Consumer Education Courses"
The Journal of Economic Education Home Page
Professional Organizations Data Links Data and Economic Information
Wisconsin State Standards
Lesson Plans
EconomicsWisconsin Online Guide
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NCEE Online Lessons
Use the pull-down menus to search for online lessons from all of NCEE's programs, including EconEdLink, The Mint, ECONnections, Economics International®, and ItAllAddsUp. The online lessons database currently has 535 lessons to choose from
Lesson Plans for All Ages
- The Artist as Entrepreneur -
This series of lessons is designed for high school students who are interested in learning more about art as a business.
- Consumer Jungle - Helping turn high school students into savvy consumers without putting them to sleep.
- EconEd Link -
A premier source of classroom tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students
- Economic Education Web -
The K-5 Economics and 6-12 Economics navigation menus are organized so that you can locate resources
by
concept, by standard, or
by lesson keyed to concept and standards
- Family Economics and Financial Education offers a wealth of activity based lessons designed using the multiple intelligences model in a ready-to-teach format requiring minimal educator preparation. Offers Take Charge of Your Finances,
an 18 week semester course for daily, 45 minute class periods
Semester Curriculum
- Learning, Earning, and Investing - offers a wide array of current data, investment education links, downloadable classroom visuals, interactive lessons and classroom-tested print lessons to teach the benefits of and strategies for long-term investing success.
- The Mint - Lesson Plans to teach 6-12 graders to manage money
- New York Stock Exchange - offers a variety of lesson plans, activities and posters.
- Practical Money Skills for Life - Classroom resources for financial literacy education.
- YoungInvestor.com - Lessons for grades Pre-K to 12
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- A.G. Edwards Big Money Adventures - Games and storybook adventures
- The Cereal Box Project - Create and market a new cereal
- Econ Explorers Club for Kids - A 24 page workbook to help teach economic concepts and financial literacy
- Economics and Geography Lessons for 32 Children's Books
- Economics Songs - Sung to the tune of popular children's songs.
- Elementary Economics Lessons - From James Madison University
- Escape From Knab - A Savings Game
- Global Grocery List - Students share local grocery prices to build a growing table of data to be used in social studies, science, health, mathematics, and other disciplines.
- Great Economists Treasure Hunt
- Kids Bank - Explore the fundamentals of banking
- The Mint - Introduce the ideas of spending, saving, investing, and donating
- Moneyopolis - Show off your math and money skills as you complete to earn Xerbie another part to fix his spaceship and help him get home.
- Peanuts and Crackerjacks - Educational unit on the economics of pro sports.
- Rich Kid, Smart Kid - Find teacher tips, online games, and audio downloads. Activities for kids include "Pay Yourself First", "Jesse's Ice Cream Stand", and "Reno's Debt Dilemma".
- Social Studies for Kids - Read articles, play games, join online clubs, and more. Addresses culture, economics, geography, and history.
- Stock Market Song Book -
Songs to familiar tunes with words that describe stock market and economi concepts
- Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions - Kids Page
- Wise Pocket World - Children ages 5 through 9 learn to be better savers and wiser spenders.
- YoungInvestor.com - Find out cool ways to earn and save money
- Zooconomy - Acting as travel agents, middle-school students plan the trip of a lifetime deep into the rainforest.
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Online Activities for High School Students
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WebQuests
Grade 3-5
Grade 6-8
Grade 9-12
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Free Financial Literacy, Economic Multi-media, and Teachers' Guides
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Online Tutorials / Demos
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Click here view requirements for Broad Filed Social Studies teachers to obtain an economic license. Requirements are listed by university/college.
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- CIA World Fact Book
- EconEd Link - and Data Links
- Economic Education Web - Standards, Concepts, and Resources
- Economic Report of the President
- Econ Up-Date - Newsletter of EconomicsWisconsin
- The Federal Reserve - Publications, videos, online learning, resources and research.
- The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
- Learning, Earning, and Investing - Current data, investment education links, downloadable classroom visuals, interactive lessons and print lessons
- Online Economics Textbooks
- RFE- Resources for Economists on the Internet
- Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions
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Economic and Personal Finance Textbooks
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EconomicsWisconsin
Wisconsin Council on Economic Education
7635 W. Bluemound Road, Suite 106
Milwaukee, WI 53213
(414) 221-9400
Fax (414) 221-9790
EconEd@EconomicsWisconsin.org
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