Resources+for+Economics

As you've come to expect, this is NOT an all-inclusive, set-in-stone smorgasbord of resources to be used in building curriculum and effective classroom instruction. In the Digital Age, resources appear continuously. Isn't it wonderful?


 * __WEB__**

Access, Analyze, Act (From Economic Theory to Financial Reality) is new from PBS Teachers

The Council for Economic Education hosts a number of resources for teachers.

Columbia International Affairs Online

David Brooks: "Indulgent America: We Can No Longer Ride on a Swelling Tide of Debt" A June 16, 2009 timely editorial.

Econ Ed Links

**Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)** **Updated frequently!**

Jeremy Jackson: How We Wrecked the Ocean (from TED Talks, April 2010) Is unmitigated economic catastrophe only a few years away? What steps can be taken?

Nathan Wolfe's Jungle Search for Viruses (from TED Talks, Feb. 2009). How do humans halt the next great pandemic?

Nation Master Astounding. I can see why the NY Times and the BBC were enthralled. It's the UN's CyberSchool Bus, the CIA Fact Book, and the World Almanac rolled up into a Digital Age bundle.

**Teacher Tube**


 * It's BUDGET SEASON IN PENNSYLVANIA once again. Given the Commonwealth's track record over nearly the last decade, it will become once again a struggle of making critical decisions in allocating scarce resources.** **You Budget** **has created a very interesting online simulation of attempting to balance the Pennsylvania budget. Have your students give it a try, too.

__VIDEO__**

Richard Sears: Planning for the End of Oil

__**PRINT**__

Diamond, Jared. //Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.// WW Norton, 2005.

Friedman, Thomas. //The World Is Flat.// Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005.

Levitt, Steven and Stephen Dubner. //Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (PS).// Harper, 2009.

_. //SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance.// Morrow, 2009.