EDSS 620Summer 2013

Standard 4: Economics

• “use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the U.S. and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.”

Economics

• Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

Scholastic.com

http://www.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=455

Council for Economic Education

http://www.councilforeconed.org/

Econedlink from CEE

http://www.econedlink.org/interactives/economic-interactive-search.php

Econedlink

http://www.econedlink.org/interactives/EconEdLink-interactive-tool-player.php?filename=em455_bankingdrop.swf&lid=455

The British Museum

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/themes/money/introduction.aspx

Moneyopolis

http://www.janvier.com/moneyopolis-flash-game

Federal Reserve Bank of US

http://www.federalreserveeducation.org/news/multimedia/games.cfm

Federal Reserve Bank of NY

http://www.ny.frb.org/education/elemiddleschool.html

The Stock Market Game

http://www.stockmarketgame.org

UNC – Chapel Hill Economics

http://www.unc.edu/depts/econ/byrns_web/PrinEcon/ContempEcon.htm

University of South Carolina

http://hadm.sph.sc.edu/Courses/Econ/Tutorials.html

School House Rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MeZvhQyTe4

The Economist

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/07/european-economy-guide

BizED

http://www.bized.co.uk

History Animated

http://www.historyanimated.com/newhistoryanimated/

Playing History

http://playinghistory.org

Colonial Williamsburg - History.org

http://history.org

Tenement Museum

http://www.tenement.org

CNN Student News

http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/

Scholastic for Kids

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scholasticnews/index.html

National Geographic for Kids

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

GoAnimate

http://goanimate.com/videos/0UFyrjLvNzaE?utm_source=linkshare

What is an “Avatar”?

• What is an avatar?• The term "avatar" is used to describe an icon

or virtual representation of a person within cyberspace.

DoppelMe

http://www.doppelme.com

BitStrips

http://www.bitstrips.com/create/avatar/

Voki.com

http://www.voki.com