[LM_NET] HIT: SEC High School Economics

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Thank you to everyone who shared! My teacher was very impressed with
everything everyone sent. She was very excited that someone knew the TV show
she was looking for.
It was *Un-Broke: What You Need To Know About Money. *

original post:
I have a high school teacher looking for anything to supplement her
economics textbook. Is there anything online to help her out or even some
books/videos I can buy for the library? My budget is pretty tight and I
don't have anything to help out.

She is also looking for a program that was on ABC with famous people talking
about the economy and made it fun for students to watch. Does that ring a
bell with anyone? She hasn't been able to find it for purchase.
Hits:


This is very primary but a great resource for the basics of economics like
supply and demand - Gary Paulsen's *Lawn Boy*.  It covers a lot of
fundamentals of economics.

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I like to keep wsj.com up, just to watch the market. With a subscription to
the Wall Street Journal I believe that the restricted content is free. A
subscription to WSJ isn't cheap, but there is a LOT of news there that you
won't find elsewhere.



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On a bit of a tangent (no recommendations for items but) check with your
local banks and credit unions.  A couple years back I got a grant from the
local credit union (Boeing Employees Credit Union) for a number of items,
print and AV, on financial literacy.  Still waiting for the teachers to
actually USE them, but $500 was a blessing at the time!



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I have some links on my website
http://spclibrary.org/profsoc.html#economics



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The video sounds like one of the John Stossel in the Classroom DVDs.  Here's
the link:
http://stosselintheclassroom.org/
They offer a free DVD to schools every year as well as the ability to
download teacher guides for the same.

http://stosselintheclassroom.org/guides_all2.html#<http://stosselintheclassroom.org/guides_all2.html>

teaching guides



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Try some of these websites I have book marked on Delicious.
http://delicious.com/lamcculloch/economics



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There are a few resources available from the Federal Reserve.  They have a
few video clips on their website and you can order class sets of comic books
at a high school reading level.

http://www.federalreserveeducation.org/



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I have teachers who use the following sites:

National Endowment for Financial Education http://www.nefe.org/

Practical Money Skills for Life

http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/

Annenberg Media has some great video clips http://www.learner.org/

Inflation calculator (just for the fun of it)
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/



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Hmmmm......
Try typing into Google topics like.....
high school economics projects or high school economics lesson plans
or high school economics curriculum or whatever.
There are zillions of files on economics on the Web that are appropriate for
high schoolers. As for the ABC program, there are many items on the nightly
news from ABC, Nightline, and some of their shows like 20/20.
Whatever the woman saw (famous people talking) back whenever it was is
ancient history by now. I doubt that there are many programs that the kids
will think are "fun" though....
All of the networks and cable news channels, like CNN, have excellent
webpages with streaming videos available, but here is the address for ABC
News........
http://abcnews.go.com/



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The Thinkfinity/Verizon site at http://www.thinkfinity.org/ offers lesson
plans, interactives, primary source material, worksheets, reference
materials, media, and assessments. You can search by subject discipline
(e.g., economics). One of the important contributing partners to Thinkfinity
is EconEdLink at http://www.econedlink.org/.



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Throughout the summer, many online curriculum resources have been catalogued
and aligned to Michigan curriculum standards through the MORE projects (a
part of MeL). Go to http://more.mel.org/ where you can browse by subject, do
a keyword or advanced search or drill down through content expectations.



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I did a program on money management and investing for teens and had one of
our local financial planners (who is also a regular library user and
supporter) come talk about what teens can do with their money. He didn't
charge to speak so maybe someone like this in your area might be willing to
do the same.

When researching for the program, I found this website:

http://moneytalks4teens.ucdavis.edu

Which has terrific and very teen-appealing printable workbooks. The
financial planner thought they were excellent and took a copy of each with
him. The other sites listed below are other sites that I came upon in
looking for the one above that also look like they may be helpful.

http://www.chiff.com/home_life/teens-money.htm

http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1795

http://www.moneyinstructor.com/kids.asp

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We bought the DVD series (against my wishes) - the Economics U$A series is
available for free on the web:
http://www.learner.org/resources/series79.html

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Your economics teacher should contact Junior Achievements and whichever is
your nearest Federal Reserve branch. Both will have a lot of free
supplemental materials. They can also look online with the Foundation for
Teaching Economics and the National Council of Economic Education for low
cost or free items.

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I love Gary Paulsen's book Lawn Boy.  It is great for showing how an average
boy learns the basics of the free enterprise system.  It is also funny.
Although it is written for middle school, I think high school students would
enjoy it, too.

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I have used the lessons from this site.

http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/foreducators/

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I would caution anyone wanting to do this kind of program that, in our
experience; free talks by "financial planners" at the library can rapidly
turn into sales pitches to buy their particular company's investment
vehicles or other products.

 I'm glad Susan's program went well, but we have been burned often enough
that it is now our policy never to do a program with any kind of
businessperson unless it's a panel of at least two from different
companies/organizations. Just telling people that often deter the
opportunists.

 As an example, I once had a bait-and-switch scenario.  I had several talks
with a very sincere woman who showed me her outlines and spoke at length
about her intentions to be information-only.  On the day of the program, her
"manager" came in with her.  She gave him a brief introduction, and he spent
the next hour and a half pushing life insurance and mutual funds on my
patrons. Grr.

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Try this website by the Federal Trade Commission.  The characters are kind
of funny looking (but then again, so are the Simpsons) – but the activities
are very interactive and fun (I thought so anyway!)
http://www.ftc.gov/youarehere/



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Here’s the description from the website: In our virtual mall, you can play
games, design ads, chat with customers and storeowners, and much more.
You’ll learn key consumer concepts, such as how advertising affects you and
how you benefit when businesses compete. What better place to do it than at
the mall!

Each area of the mall focuses on a different topic. To enter, choose an
area. In the mall, scroll over a store to find out more about it, then click
to go inside. You can also use the Mall Map or the options at the bottom of
the screen to navigate.

Visit the West Terrace<http://www.ftc.gov/youarehere/site.html#/west-terrace>to
learn about advertising techniques, target marketing, suspicious
claims,
and more.

Visit the Food Court<http://www.ftc.gov/youarehere/site.html#/the-food-court>to
learn about business competition, supply and demand, the history of
the
FTC, and mergers and monopolies.

There is also a teacher / parent page with more information, and you can
send for free buttons and posters to advertise.  And – buttons to imbed on
your website.

 Good luck!

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Stockmarketgame.org is a wonderful program touching on a lot of financial
aspects, but focusing on investing a hypothetical $100,000 in the stock
market.



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I knew I recognized that show, took me forever to uncover it:

*UN-BROKE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MONEY — FRIDAY, MAY 29 (9:00-10:00
p.m.) – 
*Schools<http://www.givememyremote.com/remote/jk-rowling-a-year-in-the-life-and-more-on-abc-this-summmer/>teach
us everything, but rarely are we taught how to deal with “Money 101” —
the basic smarts surrounding the financial issues we will encounter in our
lives. So take some basic money sense, add a sense of humor and some
celebrity spin, and become “un-broke” with this unique ABC special. In a way
that television has never approached money for the everyday people, “Good
Morning America” Financial Contributor Mellody Hobson teams up with stars
Will Smith, Samuel L. Jackson, Seth Green, the Jonas Brothers, the E*Trade
babies and others to tell you the truth about credit cards, mortgages, the
stock market indexes, investing, 401(k) plans, and how you can get out of
your personal credit crisis.

http://abc.go.com/specials/unbroke/index



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I attended an awesome session at the Michigan combined conferences in
Lansing this summer.  It was led by two men who have put together a free
site to teach busness management and marketing (and I inferred also
economcis principles), *America's Marketing High School.  *One of the men
was Paul Galbenski who is an instructor at the Oakland Schools Technical
Campus and the other was Professor Mike Bernacchi, a Management prof at the
University of Detroit Mercy.

The information statement about their curriculum on one of the handouts
reads as follows: "*This nationwide online business marketing curriculum
incorporates lectures, podcasts and materials that bring the impact of
marketing and advertising to life in your classroom.  Our coursework
includes a capstone project based on America's grandest marketing and
advertising event, the Super Bowl."*

 I totally recommend that anyone teaching any components relating to econ
check it out, whether it's an actual econ class or a life skills class there
are helps through this site.  It is organized very well with easily accessed
archives, and both gentlemen would be open to questions I believe.

The web address is www.americasmarketinghighschool.org     You need to
register for access, but it is free.  You and your students then use your
registration number for access and compilation of data.

Good luck.



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I am curious as to what sort of suggestion you got.
Did you get any suggestions that you think the teacher will use?
Here is another idea....
Tell her to Google
resources for teaching economics
When I tried that, one of the pages I looked at was here........
http://econlinks.com/teaching.php
The first item (InvisibleHand) had several links that looked good to me.
Also she might try the Open Directory Project.
http://www.dmoz.org
Here is one page for teens and economics..........
http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/Teen_Life/Advice/Business_and_Finances/
Early on, the most famous directory was maintained at Yahoo......
Here is the Yahoo economics page......
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Economics/
Here is the Yahoo Directory for K-12.......
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Social_Studies/
I have no idea whether either the Open or the Yahoo directory is currently
maintained though........

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You might also want to try Your Life, Your Money a new special being
produced
by PBS station, WNED. http://www.pbs.org/your-life-your-money/

The program airs in September and is aimed at high school and college
students.
The website also has lots of resources.

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 Thank you again!!!!!

-- 
Michelle Levy
School Library Media Specialist
Eton Academy
Birmingham, MI
rylor4@gmail.com (home)
mlevy@etonacademy.org (work)

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