Activities

Activities

  YOUR MONEY

This pamphlet explains the meaning and significance of the symbols on the

one dollar bill. The covers are reproductions of the money in the size permitted by the U.S. Treasury which makes it a striking piece. Also available in Spanish. This informative pamphlet has been reprinted many times and more than a hundred thousand copies have been disseminated.
Pamphlet – 3.75″ X 9.25″
NSCEE 8 p. M-4
Classroom Package of 25. Specify if Spanish version (Su Dinero)
$7.00

MONEYSKILLS – Paperback
101 Activities to Teach your Child About Money.
Offering practical, fun-to-do activities, this guide to the financial facts of life is divided into three levels — activities for ages 3-5 emphasize money facts; ages 6-8, money skills; ages 9-12, good money habits, with all ages learning attitudes and values. Clear directions for activities like “Sorting Coins”, “Playing Store”, “Fast Food Restaurant”, “Lemonade Stand”, and many others are combined with fascinating money trivia, answers to tough questions (payment for grades?), and an information resource list. Designed for home use, the book can be a valuable resource in the classroom as well.
Activity Index. Illustrated.
Career Press 192 p. M-21
1-4 Copies $9.95 each
5+ Copies $9.95 each

INTRODUCING ECONOMICS
3 KITS
Specially designed for teachers in grades 5-8, these kits present basic principles and values of the American economic system in simple, understandable language illustrated with the famous NSCEE cartoon characters. This is a must for the teacher with no prior exposure to economics. The materials are supplementary and can be worked into any teaching plan in social studies, career, business or consumer education.
Available Individually or as a Package

NSCEE TG-5
Three Part Package
$8.00 each

AMERICA’S WHEEL OF ECONOMIC PROGRESS
The kit contains a four-page teacher’s guide with background suggested student activities, 11″x17″ wall poster, and 8″x11″ reproduction which can be copied for students and a spirit master lesson. There is also a section with suggested readings, vocabulary and sources.
TG-5A
$3.00

THE ECONOMICS STORY OF MAN
This is a unit based on the well-known “tool formula” or “production equation”: MMW=NR+HExT. The four-page teacher’s guide begins with background and follows with concepts to be developed and suggested activities which apply the component parts of the formula to students’ daily life and the community. The lesson explains that the history of man’s progress is really the history of his tools. In the kit are an 18″x28″ two color wall poster, an 8″x11″ cartoon poster and spirit master of student lesson.
TG-5B
$3.00

THE CUSTOMER IS BOSS
This booklet also has a four-page teacher’s guide which outlines the five costs anyone must pay when buying anything. This is a simple method of familiarizing students with the basic elements of business and it also, through suggested activities, links these elements with student everyday life.
TG-5C
$3.00

CERTIFICATES OF ACHIEVEMENT

Build pride of accomplishment and hard work with these attractive certificates “for working very hard to complete all assignments”.
Printed on 8 1/2″ x 11″ gold parchment-like paper, they trim easily to fit a standard 8″x10″ frame.

 M-16

36 Per Package$3.95

CLASSROOM POSTERS

On the reverse of each poster is a suggested lesson enlarging upon the s

ubject of the cartoon.
M-11
Set of Four 11″x17″
$2.00

THE ECONOMICS BASEBALL GAME

This booklet includes playing materials and an Instructor’s Guide, simulates the functioning of a market. As players participate in three market exchange sessions of buying and selling baseballs, they begin to experience how supply and demand are used to determine market price, and how fluctuations in supply and demand affect price. The suggested audience for the Game is age ten to adult.
Academy for Economic Education M-22
$10.00

John E. Donnelly, Executive Director
National Schools Committee for Economic Education
30 South Broadway
Irvington, New York 10533
914-591-7230
[email protected]