Educators
Teacher Resources and Lesson Plans
Miscellaneous
- The Econ Song Book - Old Tunes with an Economics Twist
- Webquest
Economic Lessons Pre-K
Economic Lessons Grades K-3
- All About Potatoes
- Apple Picking Time
- Apple Farm Annie
- Beatrice's Goat
- Candy Shop
- Charlie Needs a Cloak
- Clara and the Bookwagon
- Common Ground
- Community Helpers A-Z
- Community Jobs
- Cotton Plant to Cotton Shirt
- Count Your Way to Iran
- Everybody Serves Soup
- Emeka's Gift
- Erandis Braids
- Farming
- Follow That Food
- George Washington Carver
- Goat in the Rug
- How Goods are Moved
- How is a Crayon Made
- How to Make an Apple Pie & See the World
- Long Ago
- Making Choices
- Made in Mexico
- Mama Panya Pancakes
- Masai and I
- My Rows & Piles of Coins
- A New Coat for Anna
- On Market Street
- Oranges to Orange Juice
- Our Government
- Our Money
- Pancakes, Pancakes
- Peanuts to Peanut Butter
- Production
- Pumpkins
- Saturday Sancocho
- Shipping Goods
- Sweet Clara & the Freedom Quilt
- Taxi
- The Pumpkin Market
- Three Days on a River
- Uncle Jed's Barbershop
- Using Nature's Gifts
- Vision of Beauty
- Wagon Wheels
- What Can I Buy
- What Do We Pay For
- What is Technology?
- Wheat
- World of Homes
- People Work
- Pioneer Bear
- The Real McCoy
Personal Finance Lessons Grades 3-5
Economic Lessons Grades 4-5
- Abigail Adams
- Can't You Make Them Behave
- Chestertown Tea Party
- Circle Unbroken
- Colonial Crafts and Trades
- Five Notable Inventors
- George vs George
- Hog Music
- How Ben Franklin Stole Lightning
- Indentured Servant In Maryland
- Maryland - Portrait of an Economy
- Minty
- Molly Bannaky
- River is My Life
- The Gristmill
- Gristmill Pictures
- Stranded at Plimoth Plantation 1626
- Triangular Trade
- What are you Figuring Benjamin Bannaker?
- The World Turned Upside Down
Economic Lessons Grades 6-8
Economic Lessons Grades 9-12
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Videos
How To $pend the Rest of Your Life - Now That You're On Your Own
Audience:
· Adolescents age 16-20
· Parents, educators, and advisors who live and work with young adults.
Running Time: 22:25
How to $pend the Rest of Your Life provides young adults with an understanding of the financial issues and responsibilities they will face once they live home for college or a life on their own. Through "live" interviews with actual young adults, the program examines the benefits of saving, credit, and budgeting and the consequences of overspending. Through active example, the program helps young adults become informed financial consumers and encourages children and their parents to openly discuss financial realities and choices.
Choices & Changes: Making Decisions That Make Sense
Audience:
· Adolescents age 11 - 20
· Teachers and parents of teenagers
Running Time: 22:25
Choices & Changes helps teens recognize that they need to make informed decisions about sexual issues and that the choices they make today can affect them for the rest of their lives. Hosted by Homocide's Rhonda Overby, the program features learning segments which focus on: 1) teen sexuality and abstinence; 2) STD's and teen pregnancy; 3) the academic and economic realities of teen parenthood. Each segment includes candid interviews with actual teens.
Money Matters: Keeping Your Financial Freedom
Audience:
· Adolescents age 14 - 18
· Teachers and parents of teenagers
Running Time: 22:25
Money Matters provides teens with practical information, so that they can make more informed money management decisions. The program uses three "real life" stories to explore banking services, credit, savings, and budget issues.
Life Lessons - Teaching Economic and Financial Literacy
Audience
· Parents
· Educators
· Community leaders, organizations, and advocates
Running Time: 22:25
Life Lessons promotes economic and financial literacy education for children at home and in school. It includes three "story" segments:
Teaching Children at Home - Documents the challenges that parents face in providing their children with money management and consumer life skills. This segment also suggests hands-on activities that parents can use to effectively teach these lessons at home.
In-School Teaching Strategies - Explores resources and strategies that help teachers incorporate economic and financial curriculum in their classes.
Long-Term Rewards - Highlights the benefits that accrue for children, their families, and their communities when they receive economic and financial literacy education.
