Today's rapidly changing and highly interdependent society requires, perhaps as never before, productive and educationally motivated citizens. The mini-society is a form of instruction which prepare students to meet the requirements of such a society. The mini economy also acts as an effective means of teaching important economics principles and skills. While learning these principles and skills, students apply the knowledge and expertise learned in other disciplines. This results in a more integrated and consequently more relative curriculum.
Students become genuinely enthusiastic about learning.
During the part ten years, the mini-economy has flourished throughout Indiana. Each year hundreds of teachers and thousands of Hoosier students participate in classroom mini-economics. Interest has also grown outside Indiana, and teachers in many other states are using the mini-economy program. This new booklet, The Classroom Mini-Economy , combines these two booklets into one comprehensive publication. It contains many of the elements that made the first booklets so popular and includes a new section on implementing the mini-economy in the middle school.