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Engaging Students With Economics: Lessons that Target Common Core Skills

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

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Engaging Students With Economics: Lessons that Target Common Core Skills

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  1. 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

  2. Session Overview • Economics content/skills and teaching challenges • Lessons that integrate economics • When They Want Blueberries • Can You Spot The Economics? • Immigration: Most Everyone Came From Somewhere Else • Connections: Common Core & PGES • Resources for teaching economics

  3. Integrating Economics • Examining the Standards - What economics content is required in social studies standards? • What are the challenges of teaching economics?

  4. Spotting Economics from Africa to Ice Creamby Martha Hopkins & Suzanne Gallagher • 15 lessons • Elementary level • Integrate economics concepts with literature • Spotting Economics Master Question List

  5. Lesson 6 – Spotting Economics: When They Want Blueberries • I want… • Decisions… • I really need it! • I want it! • Concepts – needs, wants, choices, opportunity costs, saving • Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey I Want This!

  6. 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 Lindbergh If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura J. Numeroff A Bargain for Frances by Russell Hoban Fireboat by MairaKalman Road Builders by B. G. Hennessy My Rows and Piles of Coins by TololwaMollel Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone How to Make an Apple Pie & See the World by Marjorie Priceman

  7. 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

  8. 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.

  9. 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?

  10. 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!

  11. Using a T Chart Our Simulation What Happened in Plymouth

  12. Economics Concepts • Scarcity • Wants • Resources: • Natural • Capital • Human • Opportunity costs • Specialization

  13. 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

  14. 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?

  15. Framework for Teaching- Professional Growth and Evaluation System (PGES) • 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 • 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

  16. Resources for Teaching Economics • Council for Economic Education • Kentucky Council for Economic Education • Econ Ed Link • Econ Fun • Federal Reserve Education

  17. WKU Center for Economics Education Contact Information: Dr. Jana Kirchner 1088 Gary Ransdell Hall 270.745.4103 Jana.kirchner@wku.edu Upcoming Workshop: 9/29 – Economics Through Children’s Literature

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