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Publications & Materials
Cooperative Education Exchange Program
Through the Cooperative Education Exchange Program or CEEP (formerly
known as the International Education Exchange Program) funded by the
U.S. Department of Education, in cooperation with the U.S. Department
of State, the National Council on Economic Education has produced publications
for use in U.S. classrooms.
Instructional Guides
- Focus: Globalization
- This twelve-lesson publication features student-centered instructional
methods and provides teachers with the conceptual framework and basic
data and information sources they need to cover globalization topics
in a responsible and engaging way. The lessons are useful for teachers
of economics, history, geography, government/civics, and contemporary
issues courses.
- Focus: Grades 3-5 Economics
- This 13-lesson publication addresses the need for sound instructional
materials for teachers who teach grades 3-5. Application of economic
understanding to real-world situations and context dominate the lessons.
Lessons explicitly address the Voluntary National Content Standards
in Economics benchmarks for grades 3-5.
- Middle School World Geography: Focus on Economics
- This 9-lesson publication for middle school is designed to integrate
economics and geography. Blending these two disciplines offers students
the ability to develop content knowledge and enhance their analytical
skills. Lessons are correlated to the National Geography Standards
and the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics.
- Focus: Institutions and Markets
- This publication contains twelve lessons based on the World Bank’s
2002 World Development Report, Building Institutions for Markets. The
lessons are multidisciplinary in nature and cover topics related to
the importance of institutions in the development and functioning of
market economies around the world.
- The Wide World of Trade
- This publication contains eleven standards-based lessons that help
middle school students learn about other countries, the benefits of
voluntary trade among countries, and the basis for trade. Students
will also learn about the culture, geography, and history of the countries
they study through communication with students in those countries.
- Focus: Economic Systems
- This publication presents a comparative approach to link concepts
and materials that are frequently neglected in other economics courses.
An introductory essay provides background information to the 12 classroom-ready
lessons. Students examine issues such as: What is the appropriate scope
of, and limits to, competition? What is government’s role in a market
economy? How much inequality in distribution of wealth is acceptable?
For economics, world history, and geography courses.
- Focus: International Economics
- This curriculum resource presents 20 lessons dealing with concepts
and issues in international economics. The lessons are organized around
major topics such as: why people and nations trade, interpreting trade
data, trade barriers, balance of payments, the debate over NAFTA, and
privatization.
- From Plan to Market: Teaching Ideas for Social Studies, Economics,
and Business Classes
- An original collection of ten lessons based on data from the World
Bank’s 1996 report on emerging market economies. These lessons help
students explore issues such as: How are the transition economies doing?
Will these economies make the necessary changes to rebuild markets
and reintegrate themselves into the world economy? Will they be able
to sustain the social costs of transition? For U.S. and world history,
economics, and business courses.
- Economies in Transition: Command to Market
- A teacher resource guide with ten lessons that help U.S. secondary
school students understand the challenges facing the former Soviet
Union and eastern and central European countries during the transition
to new economic systems. Lessons focus on specific aspects of economic
reform and complications encountered in emerging market economies.
Lesson Samplers
- Resources A to Z: Lesson Plans from Writers around the World
- This publication contains six lessons for elementary school classrooms
developed by teams of writers from the United States and eligible countries.
The lessons will also be featured on NCEE’s website. Authors of the
lessons are graduates of the Training of Writers program conducted
by NCEE as part of CEEP
- Old MacDonald to Uncle Sam: Lesson Plans from Writers around the
World
- Six lessons for elementary, middle, and high school classrooms developed
by teams of writers from Belarus, Croatia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Romania,
Russia, and the United States. Authors of the lessons are graduates
of the Training of Writers program conducted by NCEE as part of CEEP.
- Roosters to Robots: Lesson Plans from Writers around the World
- This publication contains six lessons for elementary, middle, and
high school classrooms developed by teams of writers from Belarus,
Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, and the United States.
Authors of the lessons are graduates of the Training of Writers program
conducted by NCEE as part of CEEP.
Other
- Connecting the Pieces: Building a Better Economics Lesson
- The lessons in this guide show how to infuse economics across the
K-12 curriculum, the basic strategies of lesson writing, and ideas
for field-testing lessons. Based on the Voluntary National Content
Standards in Economics, this publication is an easy-to-use resource
for curriculum developers and teachers. It serves as the text for the
CEEP Training of Writers workshops and is being used by U.S. teachers
to further their skills in writing instructional materials.
- From Marx to Markets in the Classroom: Reforming Economics and Economics
Teaching in the Transition Countries
- Published by Edward K. Elgar Publishers (U.K) with support provided
by NCEE and the Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation, Inc., this
scholarly publication includes an overview of economic instruction
and attitudes toward markets and market reforms in eastern Europe and
the former Soviet Union, the reformation of undergraduate instruction
in economics, and the effects of faculty training programs on students,
teachers, and teacher trainers. Chapter 4 summarizes research on the
effects of NCEE’s international program funded through the Cooperative
Education Exchange Program. The publication also includes chapters
on the status of economic education in nine transition countries.
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