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Economics 101. See this article in the Omaha World Herald about the Economics Summer Camp program of the UNL Center for Economic Education and the Nebraska Council on Economic Education.

NEW BANK IN TREYNOR SCHOOL. The UNO Center for Economic Education joined Treynor Elementary School and Treynor State Bank in Iowa to establish the Cardinal Branch of the bank for students in September. This partnership, where student tellers, take savings only deposits under the direction of mentors from the bank marks the 10th partnership that the UNO Center has helped establish since 2002. The branch is open one morning a week and students can bring in deposits to the student tellers and save for future goals when they leave the school. more....
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Mukluks for Moose, by Eva Kammerer, a high school student who has been in the Omaha economics magnet school program since first grade! Take a look at this book for teaching economics to elementary students.

It's winter and Moose needs a new pair of mukluks. In this educational economics book for children you'll explore the concepts of goods, services, and business with bold illustrations and an engaging storyline. Economics terms are defined and put into context at the end of the book. This is the first book in the KidEcon Series.

EconEdReviews is the place to find economic education lessons and materials for your K-12 classroom! Economics lessons from many different websites are searchable there. Teachers who have used the economics and personal finance lessons will return to create reviews and ratings to help other teachers find and use great materials.

The UNO Alumni Magazine article Putting Stock Into Investment Education explains why Conestoga Magnet Center students know all about money, with a little help from the UNO Center for Economic Education!

“Students get regular economic instruction, really, starting when they first come to school in kindergarten,” says Mary Lynn Reiser, assistant director in UNO’s Center for Economic Education. “Economics and personal finance instruction continues all the way through sixth, and the students really take to it.” ...more

what's not so new but still worth noting

Westside Middle School Submits Winning Entry about State Entrepreneur

Westside Middle School in Omaha, Nebraska and teacher Kristeen Dostal submitted the name and story about Nebraska Entrepreneur, Warren Buffett in a nationwide competition sponsored by the Youth Entrepreneurship Program for the Council for Economic Education (NCEE). The entry had to tell how and why the entrepreneur invented or created a business that was economically viable and socially responsible.

Carrie J. McIndoe, Senior Director, Youth Entrepreneurship Programs for NCEE directs the Kauffman Foundation Grant with NCEE and shared the good news about the winning entry. To see the entry and also the entries from other states, you may go to NCEE Gallery of Entrepreneurs Congratulations Ms. Dostal.

Acting exercises teach principles of economics
See the Omaha World Herald article about teaching economics at Crestridge Magnet Center by using acting lessons.

Materials Online:
We have provided a number of lessons for teaching K-12 economics on the EcEdWeb K-12 teaching web pages. Also provided are the economics standards in NE with lessons to teach each standard! Start at our K-12 teaching page to easily find these materials.

 

 

 

 

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Center Associates: Janet West and Kim Sosin

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