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Schug, Mark C.; Caldwell, Jean; Wentworth, Donald R.; Kraig, Beth; Highsmith, Robert J. – 1998
This lesson guide is designed to help U.S. history teachers and students in grades 8-11 examine historic events through basic economic reasoning. It lends itself to instruction grounded in inquiry learning, direct instruction, and cooperative learning. It calls for students to be engaged in case studies, simulation exercises, and group work, as…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Economic Change, Economic Climate, Economics
Schug, Mark C.; Caldwell, Jean; Wentworth, Donald R.; Kraig, Beth; Highsmith, Robert J. – 1998
This lesson guide is designed to help U.S. history teachers and students in grades 8-11 examine historic events through basic economic reasoning. It lends itself to instruction grounded in inquiry learning, direct instruction, and cooperative learning. It calls for students to be engaged in case studies, simulation exercises, and group work, as…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Economic Change, Economic Climate, Economics
Peer reviewedArora, Swarnjit S.; Holahan, William L.; Schug, Mark C. – Social Studies, 2000
Explores teacher attitudes regarding economics and the environment through telephone interviews with 157 Wisconsin science and social studies high school teachers. Questions attitudes toward market approaches, facts about environmental improvements, and doomsday orientation. Suggests that teachers generally approve of nonmarket solutions and…
Descriptors: Economics, Environment, Free Enterprise System, Higher Education
Download full textMcCorkle, Sarapage; Meszaros, Bonnie T.; Odorzynski, Sandra J.; Schug, Mark C.; Watts, Michael – 2001
The "Focus" series, part of the National Council on Economic Education's (NCEE) EconomicsAmerica program, uses economics to enhance learning in subjects such as history, geography, civics, and personal finance, as well as economics. Activities are interactive, reflecting the belief that students learn best through active, highly personalized…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Economic Change, Economic Climate, Economic Development
Peer reviewedHolahan, William L.; Schug, Mark C. – Social Studies, 1997
Describes a classroom exercise designed to illustrate the economic aspects of common ownership, individual ownership, government regulation and to examine how these relate to conservation. The exercise involves the incremental distribution (via a turkey baster) of water between buckets marked "now" and "future." Different rules replicate different…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economics, Economics Education, Free Enterprise System
Schug, Mark C.; Morton, John S.; Wentworth, Donald R. – 1997
This book helps middle school and high school students address environmental issues in an intelligent and productive manner. The lessons introduce economic reasoning and show students how to apply it to environmental problems. The 18 lessons are divided into four units addressing: the environment and the economy; incentives; use of market forces…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Conservation (Environment), Crowding, Ecology
