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Check out September lessons below!
Stock Market Game - (for grades 4-12) The Stock Market Game program for Fall started
this week (Sept. 20) -- but you haven't missed out! Registration is open through October 15. Fee is
only $10/team. Register online at www.smgww.org and learn more at www.econ.org/smg. Contact
susan@econ.org for more info too!
Take Stock in Kentucky - (for grades 4-12) Register your class today--the program begins
October 4! Teach about Kentucky businesses with our new 'twist' on the Stock Market Game.
Student teams use the Stock Market Game simulation to build a portfolio with Kentucky businesses!
Fee is only $10/team portfolio. Learn more at www.econ.org/smg and www.econ.org/kystock
Attend a FED Workshop!
There are still openings for the FREE Federal Reserve
workshop in Louisville - open to K-12 teachers and high school students with/teacher. Topic:
Weighing the Impact of the Deficit. From 8-3pm, Tuesday, October 26, at the University of
Louisville Shelby Campus, Founders Union, Room 218, Louisville. For more info Lunch and
continental breakfast included.
Visit KCEE at the Kentucky Council for Social Studies Conference
at our booth in Lexington
on October 6 & 7!!
Middle School Math Conference -- Math Behind the Market session for teachers -- learn
about the Stock Market Game and how you can use it for real-world math applications in the
classroom. Visit us at our session at Second Street School in Frankfort, Saturday, October 30!
KCEE Catalogs - Updated catalogs have been mailed out to schools and teachers in the
KCEE teacher database. If you would like a copy, contact KCEE at cynthia@econ.org.
Introduce KCEE to your faculty!
KCEE can make faculty presentations at your
request! Presentations are 30-45 minutes, cover teaching strategies to teach economics in the core
content, and KCEE will leave behind a set of 22 economic concept posters for the school to keep.
Presenter's fee is $150. Contact KCEE at 800-436-3266 to request a KCEE Presentation for your
school, organization, or group!
Teacher Lessons & Resources
Elementary - We are Consumers and Producers http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM457&page=teacher
Students are consumers and producers. So are their families. In this lesson students learn how they
and family members fulfill these roles at home and in their community.
SS-E-3.1.2 - Consumers use goods and services to satisfy economic wants and needs.
SS-E-3.2.1 - Economic systems can be large or small (e.g., individuals and households.)
Middle School - Let's Find a Deal - How the Crusades Led to the Finding of the New World
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM258
The lesson will help you to discover how the Crusades fostered the expansion of many European
countries. You will also be introduced to new products and find out why explorers were willing to risk
all to locate new routes in order to reach these products quickly and cheaply.
SS-M-4.4.2 The physical environment both promotes and limits human activities (.e.g, exploration,
migration, trade).
SS-M-3.3.1 Prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand.
SS-M-3.2.2 The hope of earning profit motives businesses to take the risks involved in producing
goods and services.
High School - What Do You Get for Your $1,800,000,000,000? http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM319&page=teacher
What does the U. S. Federal government do with the money it collects and what is the source of that
revenue? Many people have opinions on what the government should spend its money on, and this
activity provides some of the data used by economists to formulate an informed opinion.
SS-H-1.1.3 The US Government's response to cotemporary issues and societal problems reflects
the needs, wants and demands of its citizens.
K-12 Civics: Campaign and Voting Lessons for K-12
http://www.pbs.org/elections/kids/educators.html
Susan Sandage
V.P., Instructional Technology
Kentucky Council on Economic Education
1-800-436-3266 info@econ.org
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