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- Conceptual work: Digging into economics
- What is economics and why isn't it more prominently featured?
- A couple of counter-examples. One isn't really economics, and the other one is...painful. It's econ, but it's painful.
- And an example, albeit an outside-the-box out: Re-purposing children's literature. Two examples here
- A selection from Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day?
- A book written to explain what microfinance is: One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
- Why this is a crying shame: Econ is fun, econ is practical, econ is important, econ integrates beautifully. (And it's in the PDE standards)
- Some econ resources
- Ohio State University Research Foundation (OSURF) materials
- Day, 2006: What is Economics?
- VanFossen, 2003: suggestions for teaching econ in elementary SS Council Economic Education
- website.
- standards.
- lesson plan database: EconEd Link.
- The classic: Play Doh Economics (to be demo'd in a few minutes)
- Some econ activities
- Warm up: The economics of
candy consumption– sticker selection - And now for a slam-dunk: A lesson adapted from Play-Doh economics.
- Warm up: The economics of
- Putting our class sessions to bed
- What is economics and why isn't it more prominently featured?
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