Educator Resources -> Social Studies

This powerpoint presentation allows students to understand the free market system of economy. Stresses producer, consumer, needs, wants, good, services. This powervideo uses embedded United Streaming video, fun graphics, and sound effects. Economy, powerpoint, needs, wants, producer, consumer, goods, services, saving, budget

This is a curriculum map i created as a final project for a professional development course in AZ. It combines activities, group work, teacher-led activities, and individual assessments/projects. It has links to resources, and you can feel free to change or modify at your discretion (the national standards are a little more general). Let me know if i can help you at all. This should be a senior level regular Econ class-foundations, micro/macro. Economics

This is a curriculum map i created as a final project for a professional development course in AZ. It combines activities, group work, teacher-led activities, and individual assessments/projects. It has links to resources, and you can feel free to change or modify at your discretion (the national standards are a little more general). Let me know if i can help you at all. This should be a senior level regular Econ class-foundations, micro/macro. Economics

The objective of this lesson is to illustrate the evolution of banking in the United States and in the global community. Through video and PowerPoint students will explore the impact of technology on banking practices and understand the banking methods that link localities and the federal banking systems. banking, economics, money

The objective of this lesson is to illustrate the evolution of credit cards and electronic banking in the United States and in the global community. Through video and PowerPoint students will explore the evolution of the credit card and electronic banking practices, such as PayPal. banking, economics, money

52 terms are in ABC order and cover economics vocabulary for grades 3-8. Teachers can use these prior to a unit with Mini-Society. vocabulary economics mini-society

This is a PowerPoint activity created by Sunshine Echevarria, a teacher in Wood Dale, IL. It is a student activity for a 2nd grade classroom with a focus on the history of money, the fundamentals of banking, and how consumers and producers power economic activity. Note that there are several unitedstreaming video clips with this activity, but the video files are not included in the download. Instead, the titles of each clip are noted at the top of the specific slides. To complete the activity, unitedstreaming site and download the clips in the format that best meets your needs. money, bank, producer, consumer, economy

This resource is an Inspiration concept map. To open it you MUST have Inspiration. As an introduction for the theme of geography movement this resource can be used to have your students explore the different methods goods, ideas and people are transferred from one place to the other. Possible avenues of presentation: If you are technology infringed in your classroom, you can make this a cooperative activity. Have your students cut out the images and place them in the proper part of the concept map. Use with a SmartBoard or any other type of interactive presentation medium Please note: The citations for the images are contained in the note box from the main idea What is Movement? geography

A complete lesson on teaching the concept of interdependence. Used with third grade. I am also attaching a Smartboard template I used with the lesson. interdependence, economics

Smart Board presentation on the rise of big business after the Civil War. It discusses Rockefeller, Carnegie, oligopolies, monopolies, cartels, trusts, and more. big business, post civil war, monopoly