Teaching children about economics

2. Choose preschool or kindergarten children and research the economics standards from your state’s website.

3. Respond to all of the following:

• If you are working in an early childhood setting:
  • Indicate your state, choose 1 standard, and write it at the beginning of your post.
  • Please discuss if and how you currently encourage this Social Studies content learning in your classroom.  Describe two specific activities.
  • Explain new insights to improve current practices for incorporating this Social Studies content in your center. These new insights/activities/lessons must have a direct connection to your selected standard listed above. Please explain the connection.
• If you are not working in an early childhood setting:
  • Indicate your state, choose 1 standard, and write it in the beginning of your post.
  • What two activities might you develop in the future? For example, how can you use this information to enhance the classroom's socio-dramatic play center?
  • These activities/lessons must have a direct connection to your standard listed above. Please explain the connection.

*Course Connection: Struggling to think of activities? Look at your unit 3 theme web for ideas!