This site provides links to books, lists, materials, papers, periodicals, and projects.
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Games for kids, trivia, and lots of information about currency.
A Webquest to learn the value of research to purchase a house and budget for adequate cash flow.
Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education
Economics America Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education. Lesson plans are included with to encourage financial fitness.
Interactive lesson plans for students that involve Webquests, discussion questions, and pop up windows with possible answers.
Economic Resources for K-12 Teachers
Economics geared to K-12 is not an easy topic to find on the Web. This site provides lesson plans and other age appropriate material. Don't miss the lesson titled the Gang of 15 where students can solve a mystery using currency converter.
Economic Webquests and lessons ready for teachers to use with students.
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Find education resources including an economics challenge, student essay contest, and student congress on economic issues. Also, discover what a dollar is worth and the consumer price index and inflation rates from 1800.
FleetKids is about encouraging learning through inquiry and getting kids started out on the path to money smarts. It's also about showing kids that money smarts isn't just earning, earning, earning until you're blue in the wallet. Money smarts means working hard, saving, and investing. And giving something back to the people who helped you out when you needed it and to people who can reach out and help others. Each time your students learn about financial concepts, they'll be earning points which your school can redeem for technology-based rewards.
Kentucky Council on Economic Education
The Kentucky Council on Economic Education provides lessons, data links, Web links, and current events on economic education.
National Council of Economic Education
The National Council on Economic Education is a nationwide network promoting economic literacy with students and teachers. Their goal is to help students become responsible consumers, savers, investors, citizens, members of the workforce, and effective participants of a global economy.
Consumer information for students is available at this site. It is based on the Canadian Broadcasting System’s television show.
The SIFE (Students
In Free Enterprise) team created YEA! the
Young Entrepreneurs Association in order to provide middle school teachers
with the opportunity to download and teach free business and economic
curriculum in their classroom.
