Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History

Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History uses a unique mystery-solving approach to teach U.S. economic history to your high school students. Sure to capture the attention of your inquisitive and energetic students, these activity-based lessons give you a new, refreshing way to meet your U.S. History content goals, and infuse eye-opening economics material at the same time. When you turn your students into U.S. History sleuths, you'll immediately capture their attention and unleash a new wave of creativity in your classroom. Each lesson plan is arranged chronologically and covers key economic and historical events, so you can easily integrate the lesson plans into your curriculum as you zip through your U.S. History textbook. It's the best way to engage all your students in U.S. economic history, regardless of their interest or learning levels. Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History also includes an introductory essay by Douglass C. North, a well-known economic historian and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1993. This illuminating piece gives you keen insight into economics history and is an excellent primer to prepare you to get the most out of these lessons in class.

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Focus: International Economics - ISBN 1561834963
Focus: Economic Systems - ISBN 1561834971

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.