The Voyages of Columbus is appropriate to grades 4 through 6. It views Columbus as an entrepreneur and examines the trade barriers he faced and the importance of technology to him. Children in the Marketplace is appropriate for grades 3 and 4. It provides lesson plans and masters for student handouts on such topics as scarcity, choice, production, markets. It has detailed lesson plans for the teacher and masters for student handouts.
Concepts vary according to grade level.
K-12 and the sequence in which they should be taught. It references materials that can be used to teach each concept. Economic and Children s Literature provides lesson plans for teaching economic concepts using popular children s literature. If you have difficulty interesting elementary teachers in economics inservices, give them one of the popular children s books for their classroom if they attend. Each issue contains a series of lesson plans and reproducible student activity sheets that examine the economics of a very timely topic.