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Before class
- Complete reading!
- Complete assignments!
During class (ppt)
- Political de-brief!
- End-of-semester assignments to be turned in
- Wrapping up geography ed
- Something I recently found: https://populationpyramid.net/
- "Weaving the Globe" activity – old dataset from previous social studies methods classes; how can you extend this to make it more civic?
- I'll be using a couple of videos from YouTube that I wish to keep blinded
- I'm also using a lesson adapted from the Teachers Curriculum Institute. Good stuff.
- The point I've been building toward: Linking geography ed & diversity ed: Chinamanda Adichie's "Danger of a Single Story" TED talk.
- Economics education
- Economics & the curriculum & you
- Economics as integration: Classic lesson topic = Great Depression. Here's a sample lesson from Social Ed, but there are lots of other ways to get at this.
- Economics as a representation / simplification / model. Examples: micro S & D, macro AS & AD. Competing policy implications of different models of AS & AD. I'm using ThinkEconomics here -- it's worth playing with & exploring. Bookmark it for later.
- Demo lessons
- Play-Doh Economics, from Indiana's Council for Economic Ed. You can get the first edition online for free; the second edition you have to buy (Amazon).
- Activity de-brief -- what was learned: concepts? Skills? Attitudes?
- A market in wheat. This is a CLASSIC lesson. I first encountered it in the 'Morton' books for teaching AP Econ--it's also available in a CEE publication via Google Books: lesson, entire book.
Activity de-brief -- what was learned: concepts? Skills? Attitudes? Any citizenship development going on here?– can't do activity; not enough students
- Play-Doh Economics, from Indiana's Council for Economic Ed. You can get the first edition online for free; the second edition you have to buy (Amazon).
- A critical stance on economics education (in the US, at least): where's the non-capitalism? Example of Islamic banking, etc. Related links
- Price anchoring & the world of behavioral economics: Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational.
- Importance of framing ('death tax' vs. 'estate tax'): George Lakoff's Metaphors We Live By – for a more contemporary application, see Don't Think of an Elephant.
- 'The poverty tax' – gambling and household income: Clotfelter, Cook, Edell, & Moore, 1999.
- Setting up the system to default to success: Thaler & Sunstein's Nudge.
- Opportunities to think critically & address citizenship/global citizenship:
- VisualizingEconomics.com – for example, http://visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2010/03/15/federal-tax-rates-by-income-for-single-filers-2009
- ...and the issue of microfinance (e.g.,Kiva.org), et al.
- Closure: Bringing together geography, economics, civics, and history: gapminder.org
After class
- Reading
Econ standards (C3, PDE; NCEE if you want it)
Zevin, Ch. 12
Caldwell & O'Driscoll, 2007
Fraser, 2007
File & refer back to: Day, 2006
- Assignments
- Turn in whatever's left!
- Complete WTL forum
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