Resources for Teaching High School Economics

Council on Economic Education

• Virtual Economics • Capstone• Focus: Understanding Economics

in Civics and Government• Learning, Earning and Investing• Focus: Understanding Economics

in U.S. History• Great Economics Mysteries Book

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: FRED

Teaching Tools for Micro and Macro Economics

Economic Episodes in American History: Wohl Publishing

Features

• 32 chapters focused on an economic episode• Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the economic way of

thinking • All other chapters can stand alone• Complete Teacher’s Guide including answer to the Questions

for Discussion, correlations to national standards, a teaching activity for each chapter, assessments including constructed response and multiple choice items for each chapter.

• Available in multiple formats: print, online, customized

Chapter Organization

• Framing the Issue (with a personal story)

• Key Economic Concepts (Box)• The Historical Context• The Economics of the topic• Historical Questions and

Economic Answers• Primary Source• Then and Now• Complete Teacher’s Guide

with summaries, standards, assessments and activities.

Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 1 How Can Economics Illuminate History? • CHAPTER 2 Why Did the British Colonies Succeed

Economically—Without Finding Gold and Silver?• CHAPTER 3 Why Did John Harrower Sell Himself into

Bondage?• CHAPTER 4 Why Did the American Colonists Fight When They

Were Safe, Prosperous, and Free? • CHAPTER 5 How Did the U.S. Constitution Provide a Road

Map to Economic Prosperity? • CHAPTER 6 Turnpikes, Canals and Railroads: What Did We Do

Before Interstate Highways? • CHAPTER 7 Was Slavery a Market Institution?

Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 8 The Civil War and Lee’s Dilemma: Why Fight a War When the North’s Economy Was So Much Stronger?

• CHAPTER 9 How Did the Civil War Change the U.S. Economy?• CHAPTER 10 The Homestead Act of 1862: Was Free Land

Really Free? • CHAPTER 11 Did the Comanche and Other American Indians

Favor Communal Ownership? • CHAPTER 12 Why Did Frank H. Mayer and His Fellow Hunters

Kill Buffalo, Almost to Extinction? • CHAPTER 13 Did Railroads Cause the Economy of the Late

1800s to Grow? • CHAPTER 14 Hard Currency: Sound Money or Cross of Gold?

Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 15 Were the Robber Barons Robbers or Barons? • CHAPTER 16 Why Did the 19th-Century Monopolies

Disappear?• CHAPTER 17 How Did Financial Panics Lead to the

Establishment of an Independent Central Bank? • CHAPTER 18 Who Was the Titanic Baby and Where Was He

Going? • CHAPTER 19 What Made the Roaring Twenties Roar,

Economically: Real Growth or a Stock Market Bubble?• CHAPTER 20 Why Did a Mild Recession in 1929 Become the

Great Depression of the 1930s? • CHAPTER 21 Was the New Deal Good for the U.S. Economy?

Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 22 The Economics of Union Membership: Solidarity Forever?

• CHAPTER 23 Did Rosie the Riveter Win the Battle for Working Women?

• CHAPTER 24 Why Did the Economy Grow after World War II? • CHAPTER 25 Who Desegregated Major League Baseball:

Adam Smith or Jackie Robinson? • CHAPTER 26 How Did the Marshall Plan Become a Model for

Foreign Aid Programs? • CHAPTER 27 What Were the Origins of the African American

Middle Class?

Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 28 Why Did Communism Collapse?• CHAPTER 29 How Did the Economy Influence Presidential

Elections in the Stagnant Seventies? • CHAPTER 30 Is the Information Revolution as Big as the

Industrial Revolution? • CHAPTER 31 Is Free Trade Out of Date? • CHAPTER 32 Is the Growth of the Federal Government Good

for the Economy?

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