This lesson includes a downloadable life expectancy table, with a discussion about social security issues. Click one of these news items statements and you go to a recent article describing and discussing this topic. Hit these titles, and they link you to web articles of economic interest. Sections 2 and 3 are quite similar. Several measures are cited in a box titled Case Studies .
Examples are GDP and unemployment.
These link the reader to an alternate web page describing additional sites with information on the original economic concept. I, Dec. 2000 of the EconEdLetter is available and downloadable as a pdf file. You can also link to the Journal of Economic Education, and an archive of the journal s articles. This is probably more pertinent to higher Ed than to K-12. Below this are other links that provide additional materials and information for the K-12 educators.