Middle School Economics

[Slache]

What resources are out there?

[domestic_engineer]

I posted my go-to suggestions here:

https://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/715822-alternative-to-the-book-whatever-happened-to-penny-candy/

[smfmommy]

Generations (Kevin Swanson) just put out an economics course for 9th graders (so could probably be simplified for middle schoolers).  Definitely faith based though if that's an issue.

 

https://store.generations.org/collections/curriculum/products/how-the-world-runs-set

 

 

[PeterPan]

https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/economic-lowdown-video-series/episode-1-supply  video series to go with the study guide for Lawn Boy 

https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/tools-for-teaching-economics-using-lawn-boy

We did this and had good discussions. Now we're reading a simple book on the history of money. After that I have some Stossel dvds and a Great Courses dvd.