Learning Economics through Creating a Country: A Fifth Grade Unit.

Autor/in	Kessler, Jan
Institution	Fort Smith School District, AR.
Titel	Learning Economics through Creating a Country: A Fifth Grade Unit.
Quelle	(1981), (42 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Agriculture; Economics Education; Foreign Countries; Grade 5; Industry; Intermediate Grades; International Trade; Learning Activities; Program Descriptions; Simulation; Teaching Methods; Transportation; Units of Study + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Landwirtschaft; Wirtschaftskunde; Ausland; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Industrie; Mittelstufe; Trade; International relations; Handel; Internationale Beziehungen; Lernaktivität; Simulation program; Simulationsprogramm; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Verkehrswesen; Lerneinheit
Abstract	A 2-phase project in which fifth grade students create their own country is described. The project offers a strategy for teaching a comprehensive, interdisciplinary unit on economics. In the first phase, students and teacher create an imaginary country. Separate sections outline the teaching procedure involved in this phase: locating the country; choosing a political and economic system; determining the country's natural, human, and capital resources; means of production; trade and interdependence; transportation; and the family as an economic unit. For each section, teaching strategies, content and skill objectives, discussion questions, and resources are discussed. A separate section details the project's culminating activity, in which students use the procedure followed as a class to create their own individual countries. An international fair displaying each student's country is described. Also included are evaluation information and a bibliography. (LP)
Anmerkungen	National Depository for Economic Education Awards, Milner 184, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61761 (free).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC