Focus on Economics: Personal Decision Making (Focus on Economics) (Focus on Economics)

Show your students how basic economics concepts relate to consumer, business, social, and personal choices. These 15 lessons make connections between classroom learning and real-world experiences in budgeting, career planning, credit management, and housing. Lessons also explore goal setting, consumer sovereignty and advertising, collective bargaining, health care, inter-national economics and the American consumer, and the role of government.

Also available:

Financing Your Future: A Complete Personal Finance Program on DVD For High School Teachers And Their Students - ISBN 1561836443
From plan to market: Teaching ideas for social studies, economics, and business classes - ISBN 1561834955

The Council for Economic Education envisions a world in which people are empowered through economic and financial literacy to make informed and responsible choices throughout their lives as consumers, savers, investors, workers, citizens, and participants in our global economy.

Some of the areas in K-12 education we publish in include:

- Establishing and building credit

- Managing personal finances

- Understanding economics on a local, national, and global level

- Using economics in other subject areas: Social Studies, Geography, History, etc.