Standards (complete) that emphasize economics, with recommended lessons:

12.1.2 Students will analyze the patterns of social, economic, political change, and cultural achievement in the late Medieval period, such as:

• the emergence and distinctive political developments of nation-states, such as Spain, France, England, and Russia.
  
• conflicts among Eurasian powers, such as the Crusades; the Mongol conquests; and the expansion of the Ottoman Turks.
  
• patterns of crisis and recovery, such as the Black Death.
  
• the preservation of Greek and Roman philosophy, medicine, and science.

Lessons for this standard:

Focus on Economics: World History

4. How Did the Black Death Raise Living Standards in Europe?

Arts Mart (Middle School Level Curriculum)

12.1.5 Students will analyze the impact of European expansion into the Americas, Africa, and Asia, such as:

• the roles of explorers/conquistadors.
  
• migration, settlement patterns, and cultural diffusion.
  
• the exchange of technology, ideas, and agricultural practices.
  
• The trade in slaves, tobacco, rum, furs, and gold. the introduction of new diseases.
  
• the influence of Christianity.
  
• economic and cultural transformations created by the emergence of plants like tobacco and corn in new places and the arrival of the horse in the Americas.
  
• competition for resources and the rise of mercantilism.
  
• the commercial and maritime growth of European nations,
  
• identifying the emergence of money and banking, global economies, and market systems.
  
• social classes in the colonized areas.

Online: Great Economists and Their Times

Online: The Relevance of Adam Smith

Focus on Economics: World History

5. Why Didn't China Discover the New World?
6. The Decline of Spain
8. Adam Smith and the Market Economy

Teaching Economics in American History

Topic 1. The Explorers and the Early American Colonies

United States History: Eyes on the Economy, Volume 1

Unit Five: Lesson 4: Entrepreneurship Case Study: Adam Smith

12.1.6 Students will compare Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, identifying factors, such as:

• major leaders and events.
  
• sacred writings. traditions, customs, and beliefs.
  
• monotheistic versus polytheistic views.
  
• geographic distribution at different times.
  
• political, social, and economic influences of each.
  
• long-standing religious conflicts and recent manifestations in places, such as Ireland, Middle East, and Bosnia.

Arts Mart (Middle School Level Curriculum)

12.1.9 Students will analyze and explain the effects of the Industrial Revolution, identifying factors, such as:

• the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonialism.
  
• how scientific and technological changes, such as the inventions of Watt, Bessemer, and Whitney, brought about massive social and cultural change.
  
• the emergence of capitalism and free enterprise as a dominant economic pattern.
  
• responses to capitalism, such as utopianism, socialism, and communism.
  
• the status of women and children reflected societal changes.
  
• the evolution of work and labor, such as the slave trade, mining and manufacturing, and the union movement.
  
• by applying economic reasoning and cost-benefit analysis to societal issues.
  
• how Asia and Africa were transformed by European commercial power.

Online: Great Economists and Their Times

American Health Care: A Resource Guide

6. Health Care Decisions

Capstone:

Unit 1: Lesson 3: To Choose or Not to Choose: That is Not the Question
Unit 1: Lesson 4: Social Decision Making

Creative Activities for Teaching American History - Industrial Era

Economics and the Environment

Focus: High School Economics

2. Broad Social Goals of an Economy
16. Until the Last Unit Equals...

Focus on Economics: Civics and Government

2. Is Economic Freedom a Necessary Condition for Political Freedom?
3. What Are the Costs and Benefits of Voting?
13. Whose Interest is Being Served?
14. Do Economic Forces Lead Immigrants to the United States?

Focus on Economics: World History

9. The Industrial Revolution
10. How the Industrial Revolution Raised Living Standards

Great Economists and Their Times

United States History: Eyes on the Economy, Volume 2

Unit 9: Lesson 1: Women in the U.S. Work Force: From Rosie the Riveter to Rosie the Loan Officer

Focus on Economics: World History

12. The Fall of Communism

Japanese Economy: Teaching Strategies

United States History: Eyes on the Economy, Volume 2

Unit 7: 1. Whatdunit? The Great Depression Mystery
Unit 7: 2. Where Did All the Income Go?
Unit 7: 3. When Greeting Cards Were Too Expensive
Unit 7: 4. The New Deal
Unit 7: 5. Can Higher Prices for Agricultural Products Help the Economy?
Unit 7: 6. We Shall Not Be Moved
Unit 8: 1. Growth After World War II

12.2.4 Students will analyze how certain cultural characteristics can link or divide regions, such as language, ethnic heritage, religion, political philosophy, shared history, and social and economic systems.

Advanced Placement Economics: Microeconomics

UNIT ONE: The Basic Economic Problem

Capstone: The Nation's High School Economics Course

UNIT ONE: SEVEN. D.C. or Bust!- Factors of Production
UNIT FOUR: THREE. The Influence of Economic Problems on the Constitution
UNIT SEVEN: ONE. Solving World Trade Mysteries: The Final Chapter, The Future

Economics and Entrepreneurship: Teaching Strategies

FIVE: The role of entrepreneurs in our economy

Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Economy--Teacher Resource Manual

LESSON 6: Entrepreneurship in Different Economic Systems

Handbook of Economic Lesson Plans for High School Teachers

LESSON TEN: Economic Systems: An Introduction

High School Economics Courses: Teaching Strategies

LESSON 2: Different Means of Organizing an Economy

Strategies for Teaching Economics: Basic Business & Consumer Education (Secondary)

LESSON SIXTEEN: Shaping the Budget of a Local Government

Teaching Economics in American History: A Teacher's Manual for Secondary Schools

Topic 20: Competing Economic Systems

World History: Focus on Economics

8. Adam Smith and the Market Economy
12. The Fall of Communism

12.2.5 Students will compare and contrast the distribution, growth rates, and characteristics of human population, such as settlement patterns and the location of natural and capital resources.

Online: Circular Flows - A Teaching Plan

Capstone: The Nation's High School Economics Course

UNIT ONE: SEVEN. D.C. or Bust!- Factors of Production
UNIT ONE: NINE. The Circular Flow of Economic Activity
UNIT THREE: SIX. Productivity
UNIT SIX: THREE. Making a Macro Model: Investment

Economics and the Stock Market Game

CHAPTER 1: Businesses in the Marketplace
CHAPTER 2: Business Survival and Growth

Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Economy--Teacher Resource Manual

LESSON 24 Entrepreneurs Buy Raw Materials, Tools, And Labor
LESSON 34: Successful Entrepreneurs Develop Their Own Human Capital
LESSON 35: You and Entrepreneurial Skills

Focus: High School Economics

9. Getting More or Using Less

Focus on Economics: Geography

Focus on Economics: World History

2. Making Clothes and Houses Out of Wheat

Japanese Economy, Teaching Strategies

LESSON 3: Japanese Workers

Teaching Economics in American History: A Teacher's Manual for Secondary Schools

Topic 1: The Explorers and the Early American Colonies
Topic 10: The Protest Movements
Topic 19: The Rise of New Nations

12.2.6 Students will analyze past and present trends in human migration and cultural interaction as they are influenced by social, economic, political, and environmental factors.

Focus on Economics: Civics and Government

Unit IV: Lesson 14: Do Economic Forces Lead Immigrants to the United States?
Unit IV: Lesson 16: How Can Economic Sanctions Be Part of U.S. Foreign Policy?

Focus on Economics: Geography

Lesson 10: Which State is the Largest?

Handbook for Survival

Immigration and the U.S. Economy

United States History: Eyes on the Economy, Volume 2

Unit 3: Lesson 2: The Economics of Immigration

12.2.9 Students will identify natural, human, and capital resources; describe their distribution; and, explain their significance, such as location of contemporary and selected historical economic and land-use regions.

Online: Circular Flows - A Teaching Plan

Online: Rural America in Transition

CHAPTER THREE: Searching for Rural Success
CHAPTER FOUR: The Rural Economic Policy Choice

UNIT ONE: NINE. The Circular Flow of Economic Activity
UNIT ONE: SEVEN. D.C. or Bust!- Factors of Production
UNIT SEVEN: ONE. Solving World Trade Mysteries: The Final Chapter, The Future

Economics U$A: A Resource Guide for Teachers

LESSON 2: Markets and Prices: Do They Meet Our Needs?

Energy and Economics: An Activities Book

ACTIVITY SEVEN: Resources for Energy Production

Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Economy--Teacher Resource Manual

LESSON 24 Entrepreneurs Buy Raw Materials, Tools, And Labor
LESSON 34: Successful Entrepreneurs Develop Their Own Human Capital

Focus: High School Economics

17. The Circular Flow of Economic Activity

Focus on Economics: Geography

1. Where in the World?
12. Geo-Poems and Eco-Poems

Japanese Economy, Teaching Strategies

LESSON 2: Scarcity and the Japanese Economy

Learning from the Market: Integrating the Stock Market Across the Curriculum

17. The Market-Go-Round

12.2.11 Students will analyze the regional development of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean, such as physical, economic, and cultural characteristics and historical evolution from 1000 A.D. to the present.

Basics of Foreign Trade

Focus on Economics: Geography

Lesson 7: Places and Production

Focus on Economics: World History

Lesson 3: Trade in Africa, 9th to 12 Centuries, A.D.
Lesson 11: Japan's Economic Miracle

International Trade: Teaching Strategies

Lesson 15: Global Production Systems

United States History: Eyes on the Economy, Volume 1

Unit 3: Lesson 2: Be a Planet Planner
Unit 4: Lesson 1: Understanding the Global Economy

12.2.12 Students will analyze the patterns and networks of economic interdependence, such as formation of multi national economic unions; international trade; and the theory of comparative advantage; job specialization; competition for resources; and access to labor, technology, transportation, and communications.

Online: Basics of Foreign Trade and Exchange

Capstone: The Nation's High School Economics Course

UNIT SEVEN: THREE. Why People Trade: Comparative Advantage

Curse of the Bambino, The

"The Curse of the Bambino": Why Did the Red Sox Decide to Sell Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees?

Economics U$A: A Resource Guide for Teachers

LESSON 14: International Trade: For Whose Benefit?
LESSON 15: Exchange Rates: What in the World Is a Dollar Worth?

Focus on Economics: Geography

Lesson 7: Places and Production

Focus on Economics: World History

Lesson 3: Trade in Africa, 9th to 12 Centuries, A.D.
Lesson 11: Japan's Economic Miracle

Geography: Focus on Economics

3. Why Nations Trade

Handbook for Survival

CHAPTER 2: Ten Suggested Modules for Teaching Economics MODULE 10: International Trade: The U.S. in a Global Economy
CHAPTER 3: Learning Hurdles in Economics

Handbook of Economic Lesson Plans for High School Teachers

LESSON TWENTY-FIVE: The International Economy: Why Do Countries Trade?

High School Economics Courses: Teaching Strategies

LESSON 21: Why Specialize and Trade?

International Trade, Teaching Strategies

Japanese Economy, Teaching Strategies

LESSON 5: International Trade: Japan and the United States

United States History: Eyes on the Economy, Volume 1

Unit 3: Lesson 2: Be a Planet Planner
Unit 4: Lesson 1: Understanding the Global Economy

12.2.13 Students will distinguish between developed and developing countries, identifying the level of economic development to the quality of life.

Advanced Placement Economics: Microeconomics

UNIT ONE: The Basic Economic Problem

Advanced Placement Economics: Macroeconomics Student Activities Book

UNIT TWO: Measuring Economic Performance

Capstone: The Nation's High School Economics Course

UNIT FIVE: TWO. What Do We Want from Our Economy?
UNIT FIVE: THREE. An Economy Never Sleeps

Economics and the Environment: Eco Detectives

2. Romancing the Past

Focus: High School Economics

2. Broad Social Goals of an Economy

High School Economics Courses: Teaching Strategies

LESSON 2: Different Means of Organizing an Economy

International Trade, Teaching Strategies

LESSON 20: Rationing Kidney Transplants: A World Trade Problem
LESSON 21: The U.S.--Japan Trade Relationship: How Fair Is It?
LESSON 22: Disagreements Over World Trade (Rapping about world trade over lunch)
LESSON 23: World Trade and Developing Countries: What To Do?

World History: Focus on Economics

5. Why Didn't China Discover the New World?
6. The Decline of Spain
11. Japan's Economic Miracle

12.2.15 Students will apply geography to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future by:

• explaining the historical migration of people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and the growth of economic systems by using a variety of maps, charts, and documents.
  
• relating current events to the physical and human characteristics of places and regions.

Focus on Economics: Civics and Government

Unit IV: Lesson 14: Do Economic Forces Lead Immigrants to the United States?
Unit IV: Lesson 16: How Can Economic Sanctions Be Part of U.S. Foreign Policy?

Focus on Economics: Geography

Handbook for Survival

Immigration and the U.S. Economy

United States History: Eyes on the Economy, Volume 2

Unit 3: Lesson 2: The Economics of Immigration

12.3.1 Students will analyze and explain the contacts between Native Americans and European settlers during the Age of Discovery, identifying factors, such as:

• economic and cultural characteristics of the groups.
  
• motives and strategies of the explorers and settlers.
  
• impact of European settlement on the Native Americans.
  
• legacies of contact, cooperation, and conflict from that period.

Teaching Economics in American History

Topic 1: The Explorers and the Early American Colonies

United States History: Eyes on the Economy, Volume 1

Unit Two: The First Americans
Unit Three: Exploration and Settlement

12.3.2 Students will analyze and explain the colonization of the American colonies, identifying factors, such as:

• * motivations of ethnic and religious groups, and how immigrants influenced the settlement of colonies.
  
• economic activity.
  
• political developments.
  
• social customs, the arts, and religious beliefs.

United States History: Eyes on the Economy, Volume 1

Unit Two: The First Americans
Unit Three: Exploration and Settlement

Teaching Economics in American History

Topic 1: The Explorers and the Early American Colonies
Topic 2: The American Revolution

12.3.5 Students will analyze and explain events of the Early National Period, such as:

• organization of the national government under the new Constitution.
  
• major domestic and foreign affairs issues facing the first presidents and Congress.
  
• the development of political parties.
  
• the impact of Supreme Court on cases, such as Marbury v. Madison and McCulloch v. Maryland, affected the interpretation of the Constitution.
  
• foreign relations and conflicts, such as the War of 1812 and the Monroe Doctrine.
  
• the Louisiana Purchase and the acquisition of Florida.
  
• economic development, trade, tariffs, taxation, and trends in the national debt.

Focus on Economics: Civics and Government

1. How Has the Constitution Shaped the Economic System in the United States?

Teaching Economics in American History

Topic 3: The Confederation Period and the Constitutional Convention

United States History: Eyes on the Economy, Volume 1

Unit Five: The Constitutional Period

12.3.6 Students will analyze the causes and effects of major events of the Civil War and Reconstruction, such as:

• slavery.
  
• States' Rights Doctrine.
  
• tariffs and trade.
  
• settlement of the West.
  
• secession.
  
• military advantages of the Union and the Confederacy.
  
• threat of foreign intervention.
  
• economic and political impact of the war.
  
• roles played by individual leaders.
  
• impact of Reconstruction policies on the South.

Focus on Economics: U.S. History

2. Do the Right Thing: Free the Slaves, Avoid the War

Teaching Economics in American History

Topic 7: Sectionalism and the Coming Civil War
Topic 8: The Civil War

United States History: Eyes on the Economy, Volume 1

Unit 8: A Nation Divided

12.3.8 Students will summarize causes and effects of the Industrial
Revolution, identifying factors, such as:

• new inventions and industrial production methods.
  
• new technologies in transportation and communication.
  
• incentives for capitalism and free enterprise.
  
• the impact of immigration on labor supply and the movement to organize workers.
  
• improvements in standards of living, life expectancy, and living conditions.
  
• child labor, working conditions, and the rise of organized labor.
  
• government policies affecting trade, monopolies, taxation, and money supply.
  
• muckraking literature and the rise of the Progressive Movement.
  
• women's suffrage and temperance movements, describing their impact on society.
  
• political changes at the local, state, and national levels.

Creative Activities for Teaching American History - Industrial Era

Focus on Economics: World History

Lesson 9: The Industrial Revolution
Lesson 10: How the Industrial Revolution Raised Living Standards

Teaching Economics in American History

Topic 5: The Growth of the U.S. Economy
Topic 9: The United States Becomes an Industrial Leader

United States History: Eyes on the Economy, Volume 1

Unit 6: Lesson 3: Lowell Workers and Producers Respond to Incentives

12.3.10 Students will analyze and explain the Great Depression, explaining
factors, such as:

• causes and effects of changes in business cycles.
  
• weaknesses in key sectors of the economy in the late 1920's.
  
• United States government economic policies in the late 1920's.
  
• causes and effects of the Stock Market Crash.
  
• the impact of the Depression on the American people.
  
• the impact of New Deal economic policies.
  
• the impact of the expanded role of government in the economy since the 1930's.

Online: Achieving Economic Stability: Lessons from the Crash of 1929

Teaching Economics in American History

Topic 15: The 1920s and the Depression of the 1930's
Topic 16: The New Deal

United States History: Eyes on the Economy, Volume 2

Unit 7: The Great Depression and the New Deal

12.3.14 Students will demonstrate an understanding of domestic policy issues in contemporary American society by:

• comparing conservative and liberal economic strategies.
  
• explaining current patterns of Supreme Court decisions and evaluating their impact.
  
• comparing the positions of political parties and interest groups on major issues.

Advanced Placement Economics: Microeconomics

UNIT ONE: The Basic Economic Problem

American Health Care: A Resource Guide

Instructional Activity No. 2: Health Care Values

Capstone: The Nation's High School Economics Course

UNIT FOUR: TWO. The Constitution and You

Focus: High School Economics

2. Broad Social Goals of an Economy

High School Economics Courses: Teaching Strategies

LESSON 2: Different Means of Organizing an Economy

Strategies for Teaching Economics: Basic Business & Consumer Education (Secondary)

LESSON SEVENTEEN: Sharing the Costs of Risk

12.4.9 Students will explain how United States and Nebraska legislative,
executive, and judicial institutions make public policy, through vehicles such
as:

• legislation, regulations, executive orders, and judicial review.
  
• constitutional requirements and institutional procedures.
  
• specific policies related to foreign affairs, civil rights, and economics and the budget.

Online: The Relevance of Adam Smith

Capstone: The Nation's High School Economics Course

UNIT FOUR: ONE. Introduction to the Public Sector
UNIT FOUR: TWO. The Constitution and You
UNIT FOUR: THREE. The Influence of Economic Problems on the Constitution
UNIT FOUR: FOUR. Why Do We Want Government? Public Versus Private Goods
UNIT FOUR: NINE. The Role of Government: Social Regulation of Business

Economics and Entrepreneurship: Teaching Strategies

SEVENTEEN: Entrepreneurs and government intervention

Economics and the Environment: Eco Detectives

3. Own It or Lose It
7. Using Rewards to Protect Endangered Species
13. Will There Be Enough Food For You?

Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Economy--Student Book of Readings

Reading 31: Government and the Entrepreneur

Handbook for Survival

CHAPTER 2: Ten Suggested Modules for Teaching Economics MODULE 2: Water Rights in California: A Problem of Scarcity

Strategies for Teaching Economics: Basic Business & Consumer Education (Secondary)

LESSON FOURTEEN: Government Regulation: Effects on Business Decisions
LESSON FIFTEEN: The Cost of Consumer Protection

Teaching Economics in American History: A Teacher's Manual for Secondary Schools

Topic 3: The Confederation Period and the Constitutional Convention
Topic 12: The Reforms of Theodore Roosevelt

United States History: Focus on Economics

5. The Buffalo Are Back
6. Why Don't Cowboys Ever Ride into the Sunset?

12.4.16 Students will compare the United States political and economic systems with those of major democratic and authoritarian nations, focusing on factors such as:

• the structures and powers of political institutions.
  
• the rights and powers of the governed, such as grass roots citizen movements.
  
• economic goals, institutions, and the role of government in the economy.
  
• the relationships between economic freedom and political freedom.
  
• the allocation of resources and its impact on productivity.

Online: Civil War Andersonville Prison

Development of an economic system for a Civil War prison camp; Allocation of scarce resources. Learn about scarcity, economic wants, command economic systems, market economic systems, and markets and price. ©Nebraska Council on Economic Education

Online: The Relevance of Adam Smith

Advanced Placement Economics: Microeconomics

UNIT ONE: The Basic Economic Problem

Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Economy--Teacher Resource Manual

LESSON 6: Entrepreneurship in Different Economic Systems

Capstone: The Nation's High School Economics Course

UNIT FOUR: THREE. The Influence of Economic Problems on the Constitution
UNIT SEVEN: ONE. Solving World Trade Mysteries: The Final Chapter, The Future

Economics and Entrepreneurship: Teaching Strategies

FIVE: The role of entrepreneurs in our economy

Handbook of Economic Lesson Plans for High School Teachers

LESSON TEN: Economic Systems: An Introduction

High School Economics Courses: Teaching Strategies

LESSON 2: Different Means of Organizing an Economy

Teaching Economics in American History: A Teacher's Manual for Secondary Schools

Topic 20: Competing Economic Systems

World History: Focus on Economics

8. Adam Smith and the Market Economy
12. The Fall of Communism

12.4.17 Students will analyze the United States market economy, identifying factors, such as:

• labor, capital, and natural resources.
  
• the role of private ownership, private enterprise, and profits.
  
• the relationships of households, firms, and government.
  
• labor/management relationships.
  
• relationships to the global economy.

Online: Circular Flows - A Teaching Plan

Online: Free Enterprise, the Economy and Monetary Policy

Online: International Trade and the Economy

Capstone: The Nation's High School Economics Course

UNIT ONE: SEVEN. D.C. or Bust!- Factors of Production
UNIT ONE: NINE. The Circular Flow of Economic Activity
UNIT FIVE: FIVE. Macromysteries
UNIT SEVEN: ONE. Solving World Trade Mysteries: The Final Chapter, The Future