National Council on Economic Education - 2008 Catalog - (Page 20)

Time-tested strategies that deliver outstanding investment results, in your classroom! Learning, Earning and Investing: High School HIGH SCHOOL Soon, your students will face puzzling investing choices: • “Should I buy individual stocks, or mutual funds?” Ideal for Stock Market • “How do I balance risk, return, and liquidity?” • “Why should I invest for the long-term?” games and simulations If your students have a solid understanding of their investment options, they’ll make wise decisions on where to put their hard-earned money. That’s why this comprehensive investment education curriculum shows your students how to build wealth for the long-term. You’ll cover the basics of investing – from stocks to bonds to mutual funds – and then move on to more advanced financial planning strategies. Using hands-on simulations and activities, you’ll show your students how to research investments, buy, and sell even how prices are set, lessons learned from past crashes, and the role of government in financial markets. Ideal as core content for your Stock Market games and simulations. Learning, Earning and Investing: High School Order #: 570-8 $19.95 23 Lessons Middle School, p. 11 Visit the LEI website at http://lei.ncee.net Underwritten by the Moody’s Foundation SPOTLIGHT Give your students a balanced global perspective NEW! Focus: Globalization Your students have no choice: they will enter a globalized economy. How can you make sure your students not only survive, but thrive? With 12 mind-expanding lesson plans, you’ll frame the globalization debate in terms any student can understand. Your students explore key issues from trade to the environment to outsourcing, so that they can leave your classroom with a firm understanding of their roles as workers and consumers in the global economy. There is even a priceless lesson that challenges your students to develop their own “comparative advantage,” giving them a crucial headstart in thinking about how they will contribute their own knowledge and skills in the global workplace. Links to supplemental materials and resources help you extend the activities and get more from each lesson. Plus, all lessons include key data and information sources so you can cover this important topic quickly and efficiently. Focus: Globalization Order #: 635-8 $34.95 12 Lessons Underwritten by the U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools SPOTLIGHT Give your students the knowledge to analyze and solve energy and environmental challenges Energy, Economics, and the Environment: Case Studies and Teaching Activities for High School Challenge your students with activities that enable them to analyze energy and environment issues from an economics perspective. Updated with current information and tackling hot-button issues. These lessons are a great way to infuse current events into your classroom. An introductory essay gives you and your students a framework for analyzing issues, and each unit provides teachers with Basic Facts About the Issues, so you’ll have all the data you need at your fingertips. Next, specific Teaching Activities get your students involved in the issue. Finally, students apply their new-found knowledge to efficiently use the scarce resources around them. Energy, Economics, and the Environment Order #: 632-8 $24.95 4 Units Elementary School, p. 9 NEW! 20 http://store.ncee.net/lei.html http://store.ncee.net/globalization.html http://store.ncee.net/energyeconomicsenvironment-highschool.html

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Contents Focus: Grades K-2 Economics Teaching Economics Using Children’s Literature Play Dough Economics Energy, Economics, and the Environment K-12 – Virtual Economics ® Play Dough Economics Trading Around the World K-12 – Virtual Economics ® Energy, Economics, and the Environment Customized Digital License Program Risky Business DVD Financing Your Future DVD Play Dough Economics Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics Test of Understanding in College Economics K-12 – Virtual Economics ®

National Council on Economic Education - 2008 Catalog

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