This packet contains 21 lessons, each providing ideas and teaching activities to accompany a specific story or book to be used to teach economic concepts. The booklet contains practical, classroom-tested lesson plans to use with popular children's stories. The economic concepts used in this curriculum are identified in "Indiana's Social…

This publication was developed to increase students' understanding of basic economic concepts and the historical development of Alaska's economy. Comics depict major historical events as they occurred, but specific characters are fictionalized. Each of nine episodes is accompanied by several pages of explanatory text, which enlarges on the episode…

The suggested assignments in this manual were written to provide the high school economics teacher with ideas for projects and exercises that students might do as homework or as long-term activities. They range from very simple assignments that should take only a few minutes of the student's time, to projects that might require several days or an…

The focus of this guide is to simulate real world economic activity in the classroom by using a form of economics instruction called a " mini-economy." In a mini-economy, students earn play money in a variety of ways and spend it at a class store or class auction. Students apply for classroom jobs, run businesses, pay taxes, buy rental…

In this booklet, one of a series intended to apply economic principles to major social and political issues of the day, it is proposed that speculation is often misunderstood, particularly in the operation of the futures markets. These are markets in which obligations to consummate sales and purchases at some time in the future are traded at a…

This teachers guide presents lesson aids on how to buy food for home economics or consumer education in high school or adult education courses. An introductory section explains how to get the supplementary materials (publications, films, and slides/filmstrips), what the contents and objectives of these materials are, suggestions for lesson…

The decision-making game is built on a model which adheres to the economic principles of supply and demand. Game participants are faced with the task of generating profit in a simulated competitive situation. The game provides the opportunity for participants to gain a greater understanding of: (1) the relationship between income and costs and…

This document presents a variety of creative activities for young people to help them not only understand some of the principles of economics but, further, enjoy the study of economics. The book, while not a comprehensive or in-depth view of the science of economics, comprises a quick survey of some important aspects of understanding the system.…

Prepared for use by County Extension Home Economics Agents in training program aides, this document is a compilation of actual experiences reported by program aides working in a food and nutrition education program. These cases can be called "critical incidents" since they represent areas of success or failure in the minds of the aides.…

This publication has been prepared to help home economics teachers present the intangibles of attitudes and values to students. Definitions and a discussion of the dimensions of values and attitudes are included, along with information pertaining to teaching for changed values and attitudes. In addition, numerous techniques for helping students…

There are 14 centers for economic education in the state of California. Films, videocassettes, and curriculum guides developed by the centers for use by economics teachers are described. The addresses of the centers are provided. (RM)

Based on interviews with instructors Breece and Polak who state that the benefits of implementing FAIRMODEL in the classroom (usually intermediate macroeconomics and the first course in graduate macroeconomics) greatly outweigh the costs. Concludes that students benefit from the use of FAIRMODEL by gaining marketable skills currently in demand by…

Provides reviews of TEACHING ECONOMICS TO YOUNG ADOLESCENTS: A RESEARCH-BASED RATIONALE (Davis, 1987); PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR THE TEACHING OF THINKING (Beyer, 1987); and THE AMERICANS: THE HISTORY OF A PEOPLE AND A NATION (Jordan et al., 1988). (JDH)

This article summarizes research regarding economics education relating to how teacher preparation and training influence student understanding, the role of instructional materials in increasing economic understanding, and how attributes of students influence their ability to learn economics. (CB)

Describes a study designed to determine the level of sophistication at which 4th graders would learn concepts of economics when a fable-simulation instructional method was used. Also ethnic and sex differences in learning economic concepts were investigated. (DP)