To order the series and accompanying teacher's guide, using school letterhead, write to VPW, Dept. In addition, cool prize incentives from MainXchange featured companies help motivate and teach students about the financial world. Eight teaching units include readings, worksheets, classroom activities, teaching strategies, and tests. Supporting these units is Mouse Wisdom, a collection of readings about economic concepts designed for high school students who read at the seventh to ninth grade levels. Labor Careers, a 30-minute video, will be distributed free of charge to high schools, colleges, and libraries around the country.
Careers is aimed at increasing minority awareness of international career opportunities.
Supplemental materials, such as information on scholarships, internships, and study abroad programs, accompany the video. The video focuses on a small, diverse group of successful Asian Americans, African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. James D. Brown, Jr., an NCSS member through the Illinois Labor History Society has announced the publication of a curriculum guide to integrating U.S. labor history into secondary social studies classrooms. This resource helps students in grades 3 through 5 identify materials such as plastic, paper, metal, and glass, and learn how to handle them in an environmentally responsible way. Exploring the New World of Manufacturing, an educational outreach initiative giving young people a firsthand look at the changing face of American manufacturing.