1. Engaging Students With Economics: Lessons that Target Common Core Skills
Presenters: Dr. Jana Kirchner, WKU Faculty
Ms. Jody Glass, WKU Teacher Candidate
STE Summer Conference
June 13, 2014

2. Session Overview Economics content/skills and teaching challenges
Lessons that integrate economics
When They Want Blueberries
Can You Spot The Economics?
Immigration: Most Everyone Came From
Somewhere Else
Connections: Common Core & PGES
Resources for teaching economics

3. Integrating Economics
Examining the Standards - What economics content is required in social studies standards?
What are the challenges of teaching economics?

4. Spotting Economics from Africa to Ice Cream by Martha Hopkins & Suzanne Gallagher
15 lessons
Elementary level
Integrate economics concepts with literature
Spotting Economics Master Question List

5. Lesson 6 – Spotting Economics: When They Want Blueberries
I want…
Decisions…
I really need it!
I want it!
Concepts – needs, wants, choices, opportunity costs, saving
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
I Want This!

6. Lesson 15 – Spotting Economics: All Around Us In Stories
Can you spot the economics?
Read your group’s story. Look for economics examples. Record them on the magnifying glass. Use the Master Question List as a guide.
Books:
Nobody Owns the Sky by Reeve Lindbergh
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura J. Numeroff
A Bargain for Frances by Russell Hoban
Fireboat by Maira Kalman
Road Builders by B. G. Hennessy
My Rows and Piles of Coins by Tololwa Mollel
Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone
How to Make an Apple Pie & See the World
by Marjorie Priceman

7. Adventures in Economics and U
Adventures in Economics and U.S History by Suzanne Gallagher and Martha Hopkins
Volume 1 – Colonial America Volume 2 – A Young Nation Volume 3 – The Twentieth Century

8. Immigration: Most Everyone Came from Somewhere Else
Objectives/Learning Targets:
I can
identify incentives which motivate immigrants to come to the U.S.
explain costs, benefits, and opportunity costs and how they are reflected in the story of immigration.

9. Immigration Lesson – Economics Concepts
Incentive - Definition? Examples?
Immigrant
Benefit
Cost
Peppe the Lamplighter:
Write down 5 wishes for you or your family.
Listen for…
What jobs did Peppe try to get in his neighborhood?
What are Peppe’s wishes for his family?
Why was his father not happy?
What economics concepts do you see in the story?
Teaching ideas?

10. The Pilgrims: Surviving in the New World
Objectives/Learning Targets:
I can
explain that people need food, shelter, and clothing to survive.
give examples of the three types of resources: human, capital, and natural.
define scarcity and explain some strategies for dealing with scarcity.
Winter is Coming!

11. What Happened in Plymouth
Using a T Chart
Our Simulation
What Happened in Plymouth

12. Economics Concepts Scarcity Wants Resources: Natural Capital Human
Opportunity costs
Specialization

13. Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
Objectives/Learning Targets:
I can describe examples of the Ox-Cart Man producing and consuming.
I can explain examples of choices and opportunity costs in the story.
Concepts: Tools, Producer, Consumer, Choices, Opportunity Costs, Investing

14. Common Core & PGES Connections
What Common Core standards did you see in these lessons?
Econfun.org - Common Core connections
Econ Fun Sample Lessons
How do these lessons reflect PGES domains and indicators?

15. Domain 4: Professional Responsibilities
Framework for Teaching- Professional Growth and Evaluation System (PGES)
Domain 4: Professional Responsibilities
Reflecting on Teaching
Maintaining Accurate Records
Communicating with Families
Participating in a Professional
Community
Growing and Developing Professionally
Showing Professionalism
Domain 3: Instruction
Communicating with Students
Using Questioning and Discussion
Techniques
Engaging Students in Learning
Using Assessment in Instruction
Demonstrating Flexibility and Responsiveness
Domain 1: Planning and Preparation
Demonstrating Knowledge of Content
and Pedagogy
Demonstrating Knowledge of Students
Setting Instructional Outcomes
Demonstrating Knowledge of Resources
Designing Coherent Instruction
Designing Student Assessments
Domain 2: The Classroom Environment
Creating an Environment of Respect and Rapport
Establishing a Culture for Learning
Managing Classroom Procedures
Managing Student Behavior
Organizing Physical Space
PLAN
TEACH
REFLECT
APPLY
Overheads Day One

16. Resources for Teaching Economics
Council for Economic Education
Kentucky Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link
Econ Fun
Federal Reserve Education

17. WKU Center for Economics Education
Contact Information: Dr. Jana Kirchner 1088 Gary Ransdell Hall Upcoming Workshop: 9/29 – Economics Through Children’s Literature