Teacher Resources

Overview

Teacher Resources

Grades K-5

Economic Terms for Georgia’s Elementary Grades

These are the terms mentioned in the Economic Understandings of the Georgia Standards of Excellence. The definitions of these terms are intended to provide clarity to teachers regarding the specific economic meanings.

Georgia K- Econ Glossary

Grades 6-8

Resources coming fall/winter 2023.

Grades 9-12

Econ Empress – a meme-generator featuring the Econ Empress designed to allow your students to create their economics-centered 4-panel comic.

Econ Express – An online resource that allows teachers and students to learn, practice, and assess 51 different economic concepts.

Lights, Camera, Budget – An online game where students answer personal finance questions to raise money for the purpose of getting a film produced. A fun way to learn personal finance concepts and how they apply to practical budgets.

Workshop Grades K–5

Grades 4-5: Teaching the Economics of War and Space Exploration (IN-PERSON – Warner Robins)
Grades 4-5
Saturday, October 7, 2023
9:00am-3:00pm

Fourth and fifth grade social studies teachers are invited to join us at the award-winning Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, Georgia to look at our nation’s history of war through a unique lens. We will learn how to teach the foundational economic concepts found in our Georgia Standards of Excellence and then use those terms to help our students illustrate pivotal moments in U.S. times of war using them. We will also look at ways the U.S. space exploration program has impacted our nation’s economy.

Audience:  Teachers, Grades 4 and 5

Materials, lunch, and $50 gift card provided

REGISTER HERE