Join the Instructional Technology Revolution with Thinking Economics…
Thinking Economics is a comprehensive, highly interactive, technology-based curriculum that makes learning economics FUN & EASY.
With one-of-a kind technology and print resources that complement your teaching style, you’ll connect with your students in ways you never thought possible. Discover how to put Thinking Economics to work in your classroom TODAY!
To learn more about Thinking Economics, call 877-321-7002 or email jono@fullemployment.org.
Take Thinking Economics from Anywhere!
Thinking Economics is available for more than just high school students in the classroom. Now you can take Thinking Economics from anywhere! All the lessons, videos, test, and games can be purchased for individuals who want to take their understanding of economics to the next level.
We now offer Thinking Economics for:
- Distance Education Students
- Credit Recovery
- Traditional High Schools
- Charter Schools
- Community Colleges
- Universities
- Home School Students
- And to anyone who want to better their understanding of economics.
To learn more about Thinking Economics call 877-321-7002 or email jono@fullemployment.org.
Customize Your Child’s Learning
As a parent you know that not all kids learn the same way or even at the same pace – that is the beauty of home schooling. Discover how Thinking Economics accommodates the diverse learning styles of your children and easily adapts to your teaching/coaching style as a homeschooling parent. Thinking Economics also allows you to easily and effectively customize the lessons for those kids who need accelerated instruction to stay engaged or remediation to be successful.
Demo four complete lessons in your classroom today, but be warned, your child will never want to go back to traditional methods of learning economics again!
If you are interested in a free demonstration account or to learn more about Thinking Economics, call 877-321-7002 or email jono@fullemployment.org.
Earn College Credit
Thinking Economics isn’t just an elective or a boring prerequisite for graduation. We now work with high schools, community colleges, and universities to establish dual credit for students taking Thinking Economics!
If you’d like your students to have this unique opportunity contact us to find out if we have a partnership in your area! If we don’t we’d be more than happy to work with you to create one.
To learn more about Thinking Economics, call 877-321-7002 or email jono@fullemployment.org.
The Perfect Solution for Distance Education
Thinking Economics’s unique blend of video, audio, visual and text based learning tools makes it the perfect solution for Distance Education Programs. In addition to the content the web-based learning management system allows instructors to interact with students using a variety of media.
For example:
- Web Forums
- Video Chats
- Podcasts
- And More!
To learn more about Thinking Economics, call 877-321-7002 or email jono@fullemployment.org.
The Power & Flexibility of a Learning Management System
Thinking Economics includes everything students need to understand the basics of personal finance, microeconomics, macroeconomics and global economics.
Now online, Thinking Economics combines all the revolutionary learning tools in the previous software based version with the power and flexibility of a learning management system, providing students with interactions they can expect at the college and university level.
To learn more about Thinking Economics, call 877-321-7002 or email jono@fullemployment.org.
Contact Thinking Economics
For general questions or to obtain a free demo account contact:
Sales Support
Telephone: 877-321-7002
info@thinkingeconomics.com
For specific questions about Thinking Economics, contact our Teacher Support Specialist:
Customer Support
Telephone: 877-321-7002
support@thinkingeconomics.com
A Revolutionary Approach to High School Economics
Today’s teenagers are surrounded by highly visual, and interactive multi-media resources in their daily lives.
Now you can provide these same resources to them with instructional technology that will help your students master four critical content areas throughout 15 chapters of economics.
To learn more about Thinking Economics, call 877-321-7002 or email jono@fullemployment.org.
Changing the Way Kids Learn
Thinking Economics moves students’ economics education to a new level with interactive, computer-based lessons that take advantage of the way each individual enjoys learning:
* Computer-based instruction
* Hands-on simulations and activities
* Easy-to-Understand Study Guides
* Challenging Case Studies for Application
To learn more about Thinking Economics, call 877-321-7002 or email jono@fullemployment.org.
Global Economics
As our economy continues to change it is clear we need not just a local or national understanding of this ubiquitous network. Understanding the fundamentals of how countries interact and trade goods and services is an integral part of an economics education.
Thinking Economics incorporates the fundamentals of global interactions students and community minded individuals need to understand.
To learn more about Thinking Economics, call 877-321-7002 or email jono@fullemployment.org.
Understanding Personal Finance
Understanding personal finance is the foundation needed to understand the finances and incentives of one’s community, country, and the world.
Thinking Economics emphasizes personal finance concepts like employment, income, credit and incentives over the course of 4 comprehensive chapters. Check out our demo lessons or call for a free demo account to learn more!
To learn more about Thinking Economics, call 877-321-7002 or email jono@fullemployment.org.
Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics is the study of aggregate economic variables such as national income, employment, interest rates, exchange rates, and prices. Often because of aggregation, index numbers are used to represent macroeconomic variables.
Thinking Economics simplifies these concepts and makes them easy and fun to learn!
To learn more about Thinking Economics, call 877-321-7002 or email jono@fullemployment.org.
Microeconomics
Microeconomics is the study of the branch of economics concerned with the decisions made by individuals, households, and firms and how these decisions interact to form the prices of goods and services and the factors of production.
To learn more about Thinking Economics, call 877-321-7002 or email jono@fullemployment.org.
Thinking Economics offers the Following Resources
- State Standard Correlations
- Case Studies
- Student Lesson Outlines
- Program Demo
- EconEd Link
- Capstone
- Teacher Resource Guide
- Student Activities Guide
- Getting Started Guide
- Curriculum Design
- Additional Resources
- About NCEE
The Council on Economic Education created and exclusively distributes version 3.0 of the Thinking Economics high school economics curriculum.
Since 1949, CEE has built a unique Network of State Councils and University based Centers that provide K-12 teachers with training in the latest teaching techniques in economics and personal finance.
CEE also published over 35 economics and personal finance publications for K-12 teachers to use in their classrooms.
Visit the Council on Economic Education online store for a complete list of high school economics publications.
Let our teacher support specialists help you integrate Thinking Economics into your curriculum. These experienced instructors, who have successfully used Thinking Economics in their classrooms, can help:
- Design your new curriculum
- Incorporate the program into your existing curriculum
- Ensure correlation with your state standards
- Conduct on-site training
- Provide continuous support via telephone or e-mail
To ensure a seamless integration of Thinking Economics into your curriculum, download this handy Getting Started guide. The guide is divided into five sections:
Section 1: Getting Started, First Day, First Week
Section 2: Planning for Instruction
Section 3: Integration
Section 4: Accommodating Different Students
Section 5: Troubleshooting
The reproducible student activities are a natural extension to the student-centered learning that make
Thinking Economics a one-of-a-kind curriculum. When you combine self-paced computerized instruction with in-class activities, your students will stay actively engaged in your classroom.
The activities are versatile enough to fit any classroom situation. Use them as:
- In-class activities
- Homework assignments
- Reinforcement activities
- Review exercises
- Assessments and much more!
Each student activity is coded to meet your needs and give you the flexibility to adapt activities to your teaching style. Types of activities include:
- Assessment
- Narrative Writing
- Charting Activity
- Persuasive Writing
- Graphing Activity
- Short Answer
- Math Activity
- Classroom Research
- Simulation Activity
- Web Activity
It is easy to incorporate the Thinking Economics student activities into your classroom. You will wonder how you ever lived without them!
View sample Student Activities Guides by visiting the Demo Page.
You will empower your students to explore economics with this in-depth curriculum. In one easy-to-use guidebook, you will have a wealth of lesson plans, answer keys and reference materials.
If you are new to teaching economics, you will quickly get up to speed with easy-to-understand material and lesson plans that make laying out your economics course easy.
If you are a seasoned veteran, you will appreciate the new materials you can custom-select to complement your time-tested curriculum.
Discover everything the Teacher Resource Guide has available to make your job easier.
You can also visit us at http://www.thinkingeconomics.net
EconEd – Your source for classroom-tested lesson plans for high school economics.
- The National Council on Economic Education offers the following resources and publications to supplement the Thinking Economics curriculum. For a complete list, visit www.ncee.net.
- Attend the NCEE Annual Conference for the latest resources and training on using technology to teach economics and personal finance in your classroom
- Free economics and personal finance lesson plans from NCEE
- Virtual Economics: Version 3.0 – This CD-ROM is packed with over 1,200 supplemental activities for both your economics and personal finance classes
- Economics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School Economics – Combines simulations, role-playing activities, group activities, and classroom demonstrations in one accessible volume
- Focus: High School Economics – Features simulations, role plays, small-group discussions, and other active-learning activities to highlight key economic concepts
- Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics – Contains 10 lessons to teach your students about the important role ethics and character play in a market economy and how, in turn, markets influence ethical behavior
- Thinking Globally – A user-friendly CD-ROM with eight lessons covering international topics
- Learning, Earning and Investing – A comprehensive investment education program for students in grades 4 through 12
- Capstone – 45 lessons that cover a wide rage of economic concepts
When combined with Thinking Economics, Capstone provides activities for a complete high school economics course. 45 exemplary lessons, over half of which are completely new, help students learn to apply economic reasoning to a wide range of real-world subjects – ranging from personal finance to global issues. The economic way of thinking helps students bring logic and meaning to all high school economics courses.
Capstone is correlated to the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics. The two-book set contains a teacher’s guide and student activities book with a complete glossary of economic terms. Multiple-choice and essay questions are built into each lesson.
Lessons cover:
- Markets
- Supply and demand
- Personal finance
- Macroeconomics
- The role of government
- The global economy
- And more…
You can order Capstone here.
As a teacher, you are inundated with paperwork, administrative duties, and classroom management. To assist you with lesson planning, download student listening guides for every chapter in Thinking Economics.
Use these outlines as is or adapt them to fit your teaching style. They will keep your students on task and ensure they are focusing on the most important concepts as they complete the interactive lessons. They will also teach important note-taking skills, which are vital to success in college.
Notre Dame High School teacher Pat Tomich was looking for a new way to teach economics to her students. But aside from delivering core content, she also wanted to integrate more technologyinto her classroom. Pat decided her economics class needed to “stretch the boundaries,” by giving her students a solid understanding of economics and personal finance, while integrating computer-based learning into the school’s economics program.
Read more about Pat and her students’ experience with Thinking Economics!
Customer Support for Thinking Economics Home School Edition
Need help getting started with Thinking Economics? Download this handy Getting Started guide.
Help with Installation
If you need help getting Thinking Economics Home School installed or you have a technical question, call Jonathan Osborne at 541-273-6731 , or email at jonathano@hirecalling.com or you can check out this handy FAQ.
Help with Curriculum Questions
For curriculum questions, call Kristi Weigant at 541-350-3025 or email at kristiweigant@bendcable.com.
To Order Thinking Economics
Download an order form, order online or call 541-350-3025.
Technical Support
If you need help with the installation process or have questions regarding your technical platform prior to purchase please, contact Jonathon Osborne at 541-273-6731 , or email at jonathano@hirecalling.com.
Minimum Platform Requirements for Thinking Economics:
Hardware
CPU: Pentium II 233 MHz
RAM: 64 MB
Disk Storage: 35 MB hard disk space available
Video Display: 64,000 colors Video card and 1 MB VRAM, set to display 800×600 pixels
Network Interface: Not necessary unless a server installation
Audio: SoundBlaster 16 or compatible audio card, speakers or headphones
Operating System
Windows 98SE, Windows 98 (retail) or Windows NT (with NT Service Pack 4 or higher), Windows 2000,
Windows XP, new system.
There are two easy ways to buy Thinking Economics –
1. Order online – fast, safe, secure
2. Call 1-877-321-7002
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