Children’s Literature and Play Dough: Bringing Economics to Life in the Classroom!
Looking for ways to engage elementary and middle school students in real-world connections? Learn how focusing on the economic way of thinking can advance students to higher-order thinking across the curriculum. Hands-on, engaging activities using popular children’s books and Play Dough activities teach K-8 economic standards that relate to the real world. Lessons integrate art into language arts, social studies, and math giving students the opportunity to express their creativity while learning important economic concepts. Teachers will also learn how to implement Color the Concepts! in the classroom. This poster illustration contest, sponsored by ACEE, encourages students to create a picture of an economic concept found in the Alabama Course of Study. Winning illustrations are published as posters and distributed throughout Alabama.
Each participant receives a copy of CEE’s Teaching Economics Using Children’s Literature and Playful Economics.
Lunch is provided and a $50 substitute reimbursement is available. No registration fee.
March 2nd, 2018
8:30am to 2:30pm
UAB Collate School of Business
1150 10th Avenue South, Room 118
Birmingham, AL 35294
Looking for ways to engage elementary and middle school students in real-world connections? Learn how focusing on the economic way of thinking can advance students to higher-order thinking across the curriculum. Hands-on, engaging activities using popular children’s books and Play Dough activities teach K-8 economic standards that relate to the real world. Lessons integrate art into language arts, social studies, and math giving students the opportunity to express their creativity while learning important economic concepts. Teachers will also learn how to implement Color the Concepts! in the classroom. This poster illustration contest, sponsored by ACEE, encourages students to create a picture of an economic concept found in the Alabama Course of Study. Winning illustrations are published as posters and distributed throughout Alabama.
Each participant receives a copy of CEE’s Teaching Economics Using Children’s Literature and Playful Economics.
Lunch is provided and a $50 substitute reimbursement is available. No registration fee.
March 2nd, 2018
8:30am to 2:30pm
UAB Collate School of Business
1150 10th Avenue South, Room 118
Birmingham, AL 35294