Teaching Strategies 3-4 (Master Curriculum Guide in Economics) (Master Curriculum Guides in Economics)

The 15 lessons in this five-part instructional guide are designed to make teaching and learning economics exciting and rewarding by building on the world in which children in grades 3-4 live. Students take part in a trading activity, bookmark production activity, conduct interviews, and take part in a simulation. Discussion, reading, and writing clarify and reinforce such economic concepts as: * Goods and services * Scarcity * Wants * Resources * Decision making * Productivity * Specialization * Producers and consumers * Barter * Money * Supply and Demand * Taxes * Entrepreneurship * Division of Labor Each lesson contains a summary of the economic content, a list of materials and preparation needed, instructions for teaching, and suggestions for reinforcing the economic concepts within other subject areas and through children’s literature, family activities, newspapers, and community involvement. Also Available: Teaching strategies 5-6 – ISBN1561834726 Teaching strategies K-2 – ISBN 156183470X The Council for Economic Education envisions a world in which people are empowered through economic and financial literacy to make informed and responsible choices throughout their lives as consumers, savers, investors, workers, citizens, and participants in our global economy. Some of the areas in K-12 education we publish in include: – Establishing and building credit – Managing personal finances – Understanding economics on a local, national, and global level – Using economics in other subject areas: Social Studies, Geography, History, etc.