Welcome! Econ Alive! The Power to Choose

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High School Program Goals Teach students to think like social scientists. Inspire students with memorable classroom activities. Help teachers meet state and national standards. Develop critical readers and skilled writers. Make social studies an enjoyable and memorable class. Build students’ social studies skills.

Lesson: Demand and Supply In a Social Studies Skill Builder, students work in pairs to analyze a series of newspaper headlines to determine their effect on the demand and supply curve.

Lesson: The Costs and Benefits of Globalization In a Writing for Understanding activity, students assume the roles of proponents and critics of globalization, participate in a series of debates, and write blogs evaluating whether the benefits of globalization outweigh the costs.

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