The following are useful resource sites for teachers.
The National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) is the first place to look for economic education resources. Two sites within the NCEE site, EconEdLink and ECONnections, have lots of on line lessons. You’ll also find links to other state Councils on Economic Education, more information about the National Council, an on line publications catalogue, and more. If you're interested in having the Vermont Council on Economic Education provide a training session at your school to use these, or other, resources, please contact us.
The Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis has a variety of curriculum materials developed by economic educators in Missouri. Most of them are geared to elementary teachers, with some middle and high school curriculum books.
The Federal Reserve has a new education website for high school and college teachers with lots of Fed materials on economics and the role and functions of the Federal Reserve system. You can order a free video, narrated by Charles Osgood, on the Fed. This website also has links to all of the economic education websites at the regional Fed bank websites, including the Boston Fed.
The Foundation for Teaching Economics has lesson plans and information on seminars and workshops for teachers and high school and college students.
The Nebraska Council on Economic Education created and hosts the EcEdWeb, which contains a wide variety of links and resources for teachers at all grade levels, from kindergarten through college, including lesson plans, standards, and data.
The Mint is a great source for information, lesson plans, and tools for teaching middle and high school students personal finance and money management using real-life situations. It's a collaborative effort between the National Council on Economic Education and the Northwestern Mutual Foundation.
If you're looking for sites on the web with useful economic data, try the following:
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for information on labor markets, including unemployment rates and inflation measures.
For Vermont labor market information, the Vermont Department of Employment and Training has lots of information. If you want to go directly to their data area, it includes lots of state, county and town level labor market data, including historical data.
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (part of the U.S. Commerce Department) for GDP data as well as some state data. You’ll find information on Vermont’s per capita income and total personal income here as well.
For population data, the U.S. Census Bureau is the key source. You can find Vermont and county population and housing data for 2000 and historical data as well.
If you are looking for something and can’t find it, email the Vermont Council at vcee@uvm.edu and we’ll try to locate the information (data or a web resource for teachers) and either let you know a source for the data or we'll put a link to it on this page.
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