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Make History Come Alive:Economics and Common Core
Midwest Economic Education ConferenceMay 23-24, 2013
Grant BlackUMSL Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education
Common Core Highlights
• Reading and writing across the curriculum• Increased emphasis on informational reading• Comprehension and collaboration• Presentation of knowledge and ideas• Content-specific vocabulary• Problem solving and reasoning• Focused mathematical processes and
proficiency
Economics and Common Core
• Interdisciplinary connections• Analytical thinking and reasoning• Problem solving• Informational texts• Content vocabulary• Math applications• Data analysis• Research
Examples
• Two elementary curricula using economics to address social studies and Common Core standards– The Louisiana Expansion– Kaleidoscope, USA– pcs.umsl.edu/econed
The Louisiana Expansion• Thematic, interdisciplinary
unit that brings this historical event to life for students
• 8 interactive lessons: stand alone or as a unit
• Teaching strategies and activities include: games, plays, creating a timeline, journaling, worksheets, discussions, group presentations, critical thinking, mathematical calculations and reasoning
Standards/Lessons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Speaking & Listening
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Reading for Informational Text
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Writing
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Mathematical Practices
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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Numbers and Operations in Base Ten
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Measurement and Data
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COMMON CORE STANDARDS CORRELATION FOR LOUISIANA EXPANSION
Common Core Connections:
•Speaking and listening
•Reading for Informational Text
•Writing
•Math
Sample Lesson 8: Worth the Trouble?
• Students learn about Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
• Look at current day GDP for the US and GDP in the 13 states that were part of the Louisiana Territory
• Student learn about resources and the circular flow of the economy
• Students work in groups to research information about the 13 states
GDP Activity
• Divide into groups of ~5• Each group represents a country with its own
economy• Each group should name its country• Each group gets an “economy bag”• Each group calculates its own GDP– Calculate market value for each good
• Market Value = Quantity x Price
– Calculate GDP by adding up market values for all goods • Each group calculates per capita GDP– Per capita GDP = GDP / population
Price List
• Buttons 15 ₵• Cotton swabs 10₵• Pipe cleaners 5₵
• Colored sticks 25₵• Foam cutouts 30₵• Toothpicks 2₵
Calculating GDP (Activity 8.1)
Good Quantity Produced Price Total
Example: Button 2 15₵ 30₵
Our Country’s GDP ___________
Kaleidoscope, USA• Thematic, interdisciplinary unit in which
students live history as community developers from colonial period onwards
• 12 interactive lessons in 5 units• Students use economics, geography,
language arts, science and math skills to develop their own fictitious community from a proprietor colony into an industrialized community and eventually into a community of the future
• Teaching strategies and activities include role playing, making choices about colony sites, developing advertisements, writing persuasive letters, predicting the community of the future, and developing land-use graphs
Standards/Lessons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Speaking & Listening
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Reading for Information
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Reading for Literature
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Number & Operationsin Fractions
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Operations & AlgebraicThinking
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Number & Operationsin Base 10
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Writing
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COMMON CORE STANDARDS CORRELATION FOR KALEIDOSCOPE
Common Core Connections:
•Speaking and listening
•Reading for Informational Texts and Literature
•Writing
•Math
SampleLesson: 1650 - Incentives
• Students identify resources needed in the colonies
• Students explore colonists’ opportunity costs• Students learn about economic incentives and
their effect on behavior• Students analyze incentives that motivated
people to settle colonies in the 1600s• Students write advertisements, based on
particular incentives, to entice particular people to their colony
Incentives Activity
• Divide into same groups• Each group is the proprietors of a colony• Each group reads one of three vignettes about why
some people came to the colonies• Each group answers these questions:– Why may the people be willing to leave their home and
move to a new colony?– What opportunity costs may those people have faced by
moving to a colony?• Each group develops a written advertisement using
the incentives identified in the vignettes to entice people to move to its colony
Thanks
• Questions?
• More information:– UMSL Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic
Education– 314-516-5248– [email protected]– pcs.umsl.edu/econed