Links

  • Canadian Foundation for Economic Education
  • CommonSenseEconomics.com
    The CommonSenseEconomics.com website provides numerous links to creative teaching ideas on how to address the 20 National Voluntary Standards in Economics to advance learning economics, personal finance, and entrepreneurship. In the Instructional Resources and Cool Stuff for the Classroom section, you will find links to educational video clips, effective websites, and innovative ideas how to teach introductory economics. It uses technologies and tools that will help economic educators to develop practical, fun courses and activities for “Economics for Life” programs.
  • EconKids at Rutgers University
    This website provides teachers, parents, and volunteers with ideas for introducing economics to children in elementary school. Economics can be enjoyable to teach and learn, especially if the process involves children’s literature. Features include top five books by concept, book of the month, and text to world connections.
  • Financial Football
    Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita has teamed up with Visa USA to announce the statewide roll out of "Financial Football", a game that helps teens learn how to manage money wisely. Developed in conjunction with the NFL and PLAYERS INC, "Financial Football" is an interactive money management football computer game and high school curriculum that puts students’ fiscal knowledge to the test by combining the structure and rules of the NFL with financial education questions of varying difficulty. The free computer-based version of this game is also available at www.IndianaInvestmentWatch.com.
  • GATE (Global Association of Teachers of Economics)
    GATE is a national and international membership organization sponsored by the National Council on Economic Education exclusively for K-12 teachers and others who are interested in economic and financial education.
  • InContext
    InContext is the award-winning publication of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation and the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.
  • Indiana Department of Education Resources
  • Indiana Department of Financial Institutions
    The Indiana Department of Financial Institutions has developed Study Units and Mini-Lessons for High School Government - Economic teachers and Adult Educators to help them inform their students on consumer credit and their Credit Rights.
  • Indiana Stock Market Game
    Get your students excited about learning! Using actual data from the stock markets, teams of students are given a hypothetical $100,000 to create and manage a portfolio of stocks and mutual funds.
  • KidsEcon Posters
    22 colorful posters illustrating economic concepts give teachers an innovative tool to teach not only economics, but also other subjects in the curriclum. The poster lessons are extending through supplements such as KidsEcon Bingo and KidsEcon Activity Cards. To order, log on to kidseconposters.com.
  • Liberty Fund, Inc - High School Topics
    The new section offers a guide to Econlib and other online resources, appropriate for supplementing the high school economics curriculum. High school teachers, home school and AP students, and those new to economics and looking for some guidance can find links and excerpts in the new section. Materials include links to basic economic definitions, encyclopedia entries, applications selected from the news, economic developments in history, primary resources, and advanced reading suggestions. The new section is organized according to the list of the 51 key economics concepts common to all U.S. State requirements for high school classes in economics, as compiled by the National Council on Economic Education (the NCEE). It is one of several level-oriented Guides to Economics planned for Econlib in the coming year.
  • National Association of Economic Educators
    The National Association of Economic Educators (NAEE) is the professional association of economic educators affiliated with the National Council on Economic Education.
  • National Council on Economic Education
    The National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) is a nationwide network that leads in promoting economic literacy with students and their teachers. NCEE's mission is to help students develop the real-life skills they need to succeed: to be able to think and choose responsibly as consumers, savers, investors, citizens, members of the workforce, and effective participants in a global economy.
  • Powell Center for Economic Literacy
    The Powell Center is a resource for teachers and students across the country, with lesson plans, curricula and information on learning opportunities in the field of economics.
  • Purdue University Department of Agricultural Economics
    This site is designed to help high school students learn more about majors and career paths available through the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue.
  • St. Louis Fed Video Lending Library
    The St. Louis Fed's video lending library allows educators to use (at no charge) videos covering topics ranging from money, banking and the Fed to international trade, economics and finance.
  • State Councils and University Centers for Economic Education Sites (NAEE)
    This page provides links to State Councils and University Centers for Economic Education across the country.
  • The Journal of Economic Education
    The Journal of Economic Education offers original articles on innovations in and evaluations of teaching techniques, materials, and programs in economics.
  • WebEc - World Wide Web Resources in Economics
  • Zooconomy: Zoo Business
    Educational Online Game