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The Barker Center offers educators, students, and parents a host of resources for purchase to advance economic education across subject areas and grade-bands. Professional development workshops are available for large groups, and for more information e-mail barkercenter@uakron.edu

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Financial Fitness for Life K-12

Financial Fitness for Life, Teacher Package w/K-12 Flash Drive

The Financial Fitness for Life (FFFL) USB Flash Drive provides high-quality instructional materials for grades K-12. The USB includes the teacher manuals and complementary student workbooks separated into four grade bands (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12). Focus is on advancing financial literacy including earning income, spending, saving, borrowing, investing, and managing money

$79.95

What is Econ

What Economics is About?

This 20-page booklet is loaded with economics vocabulary- down-to-earth explanations of the fundamental terms with illustrations & diagrams. A one-page overview of 'What Economics Is About' gives you a visual roadmap of economics in an easy-to-follow flowchart. Units include:

  • The Basic Economics Problem
  • Economics Systems
  • Three Basic Questions Every Society Must Answer
  • Circular Flow
  • Role of Government
  • Entrepreneurship, and more.
$34.95

Maguth

Inquiry-Based Global Learning in the K-12 Social Studies Classroom

Edited by experienced scholars in the field, brings together a diverse array of educators to showcase lessons, activities, and instructional strategies that advance inquiry-oriented global learning. Directly aligned to the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standard, this work highlights ways in which global learning can seamlessly be interwoven into the disciplines of history, economics, geography, civics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Recently adopted by the National Council for the Social Studies, the nation’s largest professional organization of history and social studies teachers, the C3 Framework prioritizes inquiry-oriented learning experiences across the social studies disciplines in order to advance critical thinking, problem solving, and participatory skills for engaged citizenship.

$57.00

Elementary Grades

Focus Grades K-2 Econ

Focus: Grades K-2

Discover 10 lesson plans that use scissors, colored paper, glue sticks, glitter and many more exciting ingredients to whip up hands-on activities and exercises. Your students will also learn essential skills like: group work, decision making, and basic economic reasoning. Each lesson includes: Lesson overview, Reproducible activities and visuals, Assessment activities, and a Glossary. As you guide your students through each lesson they will not only master basic economic concepts but they will also sharpen their writing skills, math skills and reading comprehension

$44.95

Playful Econ

Playful Economics

The 15 economics lessons in this book were designed with elementary and middle school students in mind, but can also be used by high school students. Each concept that is introduced in the book is detailed in the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics, and many of those concepts are also found in individual states' standards. The lessons found in this curriculum can be used on their own or to supplement other materials. They are most successful when completed sequentially but may be used individually as well. Lessons 1-8 cover the most basic concepts, while lessons 9-15 delve deeper into more complex issues.

$34.95

Childrens Literature

Teaching Economics Using Children's Literature

Teaching your young students basic economics concepts doesn't have to be fairy tale! Discover how a collection of traditional children's stories can give your classroom an instant economic boost at an early age and all while infusing more reading comprehension and language art skills into your everyday instruction. 24 ready to use lessons include connections to such classics as the “Three Little Pigs”, “The Giving Tree”, and many more! There's no better way to teach economics than with stories and tales your students already love.

$39.95

Mini Economy

The Classroom Mini-Economy

Introduce your students to real-world economic activity...without leaving your classroom! This nuts-and-bolts teacher's guide has all the tools and resources you need to create a functioning economy right inside your classroom. At the end of this comprehensive simulation, your students will have a thorough understanding of our economy.

$44.95


Middle School

Focus Middle School World

Focus: Middle School World History

This volume of lesson plans covers a large spectrum of world history. Our goal is to provide middle school history teachers with lessons that incorporate economics into a variety of world history topics. We began the project by surveying the coverage of world history in middle schools across the country. Naturally, we found wide variance in what was covered and when. However, most middle school courses focus on the earlier parts of world history— generally from the beginning of human history through the Roman Empire and sometimes quite a bit further. The rest of world history is then saved for high school. We decided to do lessons from the beginning of human history to 1776, which is the latest any middle school seemed to go.

$59.95

High School

Macro

Mico

Advanced Placement Economics: Macroeconomics, Teacher's Manual and Student Textbook (4th ed.)

Advanced Placement Economics: Microeconomics, Teacher's Manual and Student Textbook (4th ed.)

The 4th edition of AP Economics reflects the adjustments in the AP Course Outlines and Exams in the years since the publication of the 3rd edition. Some changes include paring down content for better emphasis of essential AP economics concepts; revising lessons to utilize contemporary examples; and most importantly, addressing the current state of the test with the addition of new content. In addition, you will see some reorganization of the material in response to teacher feedback.

$75.00 ea.

High School Econ

High School Economics (3rd ed.)

8 Lessons aligned with national and state standards and identifies concepts and standards, features teaching procedures, background information, current data on public policy issues, and assessment activities. Example topics include: Production Possibilities and Opportunity Cost; Allocating Scarce Resources; Marginalism; A Classroom Market for Cocoa; What Happens When Prices are not in Equilibrium?; The Market Never Stands Still; How Markets Interact; Productivity; Perfect Competition Versus Monopoly; Game Theory; Income Distribution; The Circular Flows of Econoland; Inflation; Fiscal Policy; The Fed's Toolbox; Global Trade and Comparative Advantage, and many more

$61.95

Focus US Hist and Econ

Focus:  Understanding Economics in U.S. History

Understanding Economics in U.S. History uses a unique mystery-solving approach to teach U.S. economic history to your high school students. Activity-based lessons give you a new, refreshing way to meet your U.S. History content goals, and infuse eye-opening economics material at the same time. Your students solve intriguing historical mysteries such as: 

  • Why did the 13 American colonies prosper, when they had little to offer economically?
  • Is education beyond high school worth the cost?
  • Why did the economy grow during the 1920's, but falter during the 1930's?
  • Did the New Deal help, or hurt, economic recovery?
  • Why did the post-World War II years bring unprecedented prosperity and expansion to the American middle class?
$59.95

Focus Civics Govt Econ

Focus:  Understanding Economics in Civics and Government

Twenty self-contained lesson plans that are packed with visuals, handouts, data, student activities, worksheets and more, you'll explore explore the role economics plays in government and its influence on political choices. Best of it, these lessons will complement your core Civics and Government curriculum with student-focused activities, simulations, readings and projects. Topics include:

  • What Is the Role of Government in the Economy?
  • Government Spending: Too Much or Too Little?
  • How Do You Structure a "Fair" Tax System?
  • How Does the Economy Influences Elections?
$54.95

Econ in Action

Economics in Action

What happens when you combine simulations, role-playing activities and mystery-based lesson plans with economics? The answer is simple: your students actually learn the concepts! Put economics to work in your classroom with 14 tried-and-true lesson plans, and have your students actively master concepts like trade, money, opportunity cost, scarcity and inflation quickly and all while having fun.

$44.95

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