num_pages: 250
description: This publication is the teacher's edition. Through a community-based publishing project, students in grades 3-–5 learn how economics works through a series of cross-curricula activities such -Researching their community and forming a publishing business - Writing and producing a book about the community -• Marketing and selling the book - Analyzing business results With background materials and student handouts, the Teacher Resource Manual includes 33 lessons that cover scarcity, opportunity cost, productivity, incentives, markets and prices, and supply and demand. Also available is a Student Activity Book containing 30 high-involvement student activities along with maps, charts, and exercises in math and language arts designed to help students plan, analyze, organize, and record their experiences in The Community Publishing Company. Also Exploring the marketplace The International News Journal, inc. : teacher resource manual - ISBN 1561833991 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 - Establishing and building credit - Managing personal finances - Understanding economics on a local, national, and global level - Using economics in other subject Social Studies, Geography, History, etc.
language: English
title: Exploring the marketplace : The Community Publishing Company
titlecomplete: Exploring the marketplace : The Community Publishing Company
publisher: National Council on Economic Education