Focus: Middle School Economics

Students apply economics concepts and reasoning to real-world situations in a series of interactive units pertaining to 6 societal roles as: * Decision-makers * Consumers * Workers * Citizens * Savers * Global participants 19 lessons are divided into units, each covering a role and relevant economics content, including supply and demand, opportunity cost, productive resources, Gross Domestic Product, and trade barriers. Students also keep journals and, in the final lesson, play a game designed as a review. Table of Contents | Introduction

Also available:

Middle School World Geography: Focus on Economics - ISBN 156183520X
Focus : High School Economics - ISBN 1561836141

The Council for Economic Education envisions a world in which people are empowered through economic and financial literacy to make informed and responsible choices throughout their lives as consumers, savers, investors, workers, citizens, and participants in our global economy.

Some of the areas in K-12 education we publish in include:

- Establishing and building credit

- Managing personal finances

- Understanding economics on a local, national, and global level

- Using economics in other subject areas: Social Studies, Geography, History, etc.