Looking for online Economic resources

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Permalink Reply by Caleb Lang on June 8, 2009 at 9:03pm

Michael,
I faced a similar situation when I started teaching Econ.
One resource I have used is the Buck Institute for Education. (http://www.bie.org/index.php/site/PBE/pbe_overview/)
They have some great problem based lessons.

Although not an online text, an organization called Junior Achievement (www.ja.org) provided me with a classroom set of Econ texts and workbooks. They had many other resources available as well, free of charge.

I hope that helps!

Caleb Lang

Permalink Reply by Michael Hutchison on June 9, 2009 at 9:08am

Hi, Caleb,

Thanks for the information. I've passed it along to our econ teacher via e-mail.

The PBS resources that I mentioned above should be great once they are released. My guess is they'll be available sometime around the start of the new school year (probably late August).

Michael H.

Permalink Reply by Kevin Gilchrist on June 24, 2009 at 2:46pm

Hi Michael,

I just joined this group and thought that I would reply to your post. If you are looking for a good online resource for teaching high school economics (IB and AP Economics included) you might want to check out the following website: http://welkerswikinomics.wetpaint.com/

It may be of use to you.

Regards,
Kevin Gilchrist

Permalink Reply by Michael Hutchison on June 24, 2009 at 2:54pm

Thanks, Kevin. I appreciate you sharing it. It looks really cool!

Michael H.

Permalink Reply by Thomas Daccord on December 9, 2009 at 9:37pm

I work with social studies teachers (on integrating technology into the curriculum) and I get requests for websites for teaching economics. So I am also looking for recommendations.
I think Federal Reserve centers offers some great resources: http://www.frbsf.org/education/
I also like EcEdWeb resources: http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/K-12/home.cfm

Permalink Reply by Heidi Harris on January 5, 2010 at 11:51am

I use http://www.econedlink.org/ quite a bit and find it really useful, as you stated. I've been using WeSeed.com for stock market simulation and find it to be very cool! There are a few lessons for teachers on there as well.
The Federal Reserve of Boston has some resources for educators, as well as games related to economics http://www.bos.frb.org/education/online/index.htm
I have also used this site for resources, and recently found that they have lesson plans as well http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/personalfinance/index.php
Hope this helps!