resources for teaching economics in american history
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Resources for Teaching Economics in American History
Features
• Essay on the economic way of thinking.• 39 complete lesson plans– Economic history explanations– Detailed teaching procedures – All visuals and handouts are included– Linked to national economics and history standards
• Uses an “economic mystery” approach to encourage students to practice economic thinking skills.
• Includes multiple choice and constructed response assessments.
• Published by the Council on Economic Education
How to Order Focus
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http://www.councilforeconed.org/
Art History ResearchThe Van Gogh Family
• Obnoxious brother• Dizzy Aunt• Brother who ate prunes• Brother who worked at
a convenience store• Grandfather from
Yugoslavia
• Please Gogh• Verti Gogh• Gotta Gogh
• Stop N Gogh
• U Gogh
Art History ResearchThe Van Gogh Family
• Cousin from Illinois• Magician uncle• Mexican cousin’s half-
brother• Constipated uncle• Ballroom dancing aunt
• Chica Gogh• Wherediddy Gogh• Amee Gogh
• Cant Gogh• Tan Gogh
Art History ResearchThe Van Gogh Family
• Bird lover uncle• Nephew psychoanalyst• Brother who was a
Beatle
• Flamin Gogh
• E Gogh• Rin Gogh
• The nephew who drove a stage coach ----------- Wells-far Gogh
The constipated uncle --------------------------------- Can't Gogh
The ballroom dancing aunt ---------------------------- Tang Gogh
The bird lover uncle --------------------------------- Flamin Gogh
The fruit-loving cousin --------------------------------- Man Gogh An aunt who taught positive thinking ------------- Way-to-Gogh The little bouncy nephew ------------------------------ Poe Gogh
A sister who loved disco -----------------------------Go Gogh
AND.... His niece who travels the country in an RV....... : Winnie Bay Gogh
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?
How to Order EEAH
Phone: (866) 620-6942Fax: (708) 534-7803Email:
Or just click on www.wohlpublishing.com