Around the World the Econ Way

If you are looking for a way to teach and plan across the curriculum--look no further.  This curriculum unit uses children's literature to teach economics, history, and geography to elementary school students.  Teachers will help their students "Book a Trip Around the World" with hands-on activities designed to help students understand that people all over the word are buyers and sellers, that resources are combined to produce goods and services, that people have been trading to get what they want for centuries...and much more!  Featured in this unit is a special student passport to help students keep track of all the faraway places they visit during their study.  Topics include: resources, scarcity, opportunity cost, economics decision making, barter trade, exchanging money for goods and services, saving and spending, production, consumption, modes of transportation, directions, map reading, United States geography, global geography, local and global interdependence.