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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

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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 . Session Overview. Economics content/skills and teaching challenges - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Engaging Students With Economics: Lessons that

Target Common Core SkillsPresenters: Dr. Jana Kirchner, WKU Faculty

Ms. Jody Glass, WKU Teacher Candidate

STE Summer Conference June 13, 2014

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Session Overview• Economics content/skills and teaching challenges

• Lessons that integrate economics

o When They Want Blueberrieso Can You Spot The Economics?o Immigration: Most Everyone Came From Somewhere Elseo Connections: Common Core & PGES

• Resources for teaching economics

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Integrating Economics

• Examining the Standards - What economics content is required in social studies standards?

• What are the challenges of teaching economics?

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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

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Lesson 6 – Spotting Economics: When They Want

Blueberries • I want…

• Decisions…o I really need it!o I want it!

• Concepts – needs, wants, choices, opportunity costs, saving

• Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

I Want This!

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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 LindberghIf You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura J. NumeroffA Bargain for Frances by Russell HobanFireboat by Maira KalmanRoad 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 BartoneHow to Make an Apple Pie & See the World by Marjorie Priceman

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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

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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.

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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?

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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!

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Using a T Chart

Our Simulation What Happened in Plymouth

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Economics Concepts • Scarcity• Wants• Resources:oNaturaloCapitaloHuman

• Opportunity costs• Specialization

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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

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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?

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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

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Resources for Teaching Economics

• Council for Economic Education

• Kentucky Council for Economic Education

• Econ Ed Link

• Econ Fun

• Federal Reserve Education

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WKU Center for Economics Education

Contact Information:Dr. Jana Kirchner

1088 Gary Ransdell Hall270.745.4103

[email protected]

Upcoming Workshop: 9/29 – Economics Through Children’s Literature