Social Studies Research and Practice: Volume 7 Issue 1

All We Know that May Be So in Economic Education

Mark C. Schug, Ashley S. Harrison, J.R. Clark

The teaching of economics at the Kindergarten-12 level has been highly researched and reported upon since the 1970’s and has primarily concentrated on curriculum, materials…

TIPS FOR TEACHING THE HIGH SCHOOL ECONOMICS COURSE

Don R. Leet, Jane S. Lopus

Because economics is increasing in importance in the high school curriculum, it is critically important that it is taught well by well-trained teachers. We offer suggestions for…

Economics in the Media: Cool Tools for Teaching Economics

Tawni Hunt Ferrarini

Recreational use of MP3 players, cell phones, computers and/or video game units is on the rise among today’s students. This article helps teachers integrating economics into their…

Data Literacy Contributes to Critical Thinking: FRED for the Classroom

Kathy Cosgrove, Mary Suiter, Scott Wolla

The authors make the case that data literacy is a key component to critical thinking in the world today. They describe the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) database and how it…

Classroom Societies and Common Markets: The Gem Fair

William C. Wood, Lynne F. Stover, Martha C. Hopkins

In-class societies such as the Mini-Society and Mini-Economy provide opportunities for teaching important lessons about choice, scarcity, and economic organization. Those lessons…

“Socializing Economics:” Using Practical Applications to Enliven Economic Theory

Jean Kufrin Rosales, Wayne Journell

Economics has traditionally been taught in a way that emphasizes the “science” side of social science. This article suggests ways to cover the concepts introduced in high school…

Anna Julia Cooper, Ph.D., and the Inequality of Economic Industry

Lois McFadyen Christensen

Dr. Anna Julia Cooper was an early, radical educational pioneer who asked why African Americans were perceived as problematic to society and subjected to economic biases (Berry…

Assessing an Online Personal Finance Video Game

Scott Niederjohn

This paper describes a pre- and post-test design, with control group, used to evaluate the educational effectiveness of Gen I Revolution (LEI The Game), a 15-missionvideo game…

Economics in World History: Two Success Stories

Lucien Ellington, M. A. McCoy

The objective of this essay is to assist secondary school world history teachers in helping students develop an understanding basic economic concepts through learning about two…