Previous Workshops
Health Economics for Grades 7-12
No Fee!
Like everything else, healthcare is scarce. This workshop examines the subject in the context of fundamental economic concepts like the laws of supply and demand, scarcity, consumption, investment goods, marginal analysis, and gains from trade, while also looking at more complex and problematic topical issues like universal health care (common resource) and market failures. The issues surrounding markets with asymmetrical information and the market for insurance (adverse selection and moral hazard) will be addressed, as well as basic facts about the healthcare industry. Classroom applications include: Arizona Economics Standards Strand 5, Concept 1, Foundation of Economics; Concept 2, Microeconomics; Concept 3, Macroeconomics.
Tucson May 7, 2010
For more information via e-mail
Click Here
Ethical Foundations of Economics
A Workshop for Middle & High School Teachers
Join us for a day of learning some interactive teaching methods for this timely topic.
This engaging workshop will address such issues as:
- Are there moral limits to markets?
- What's the difference between self-interest and greed?
- Do markets make us more moral?
- Is efficiency an ethical concept?
- Is there a social responsibility in business?
- Should we allow a market for transplant organs?
The take-home curriculum book also covers:
- What about sweatshops?
- What is economic justice?
- Does science need ethics?
- And other riveting topics!
Workshop Presented by Curriculum Authors!
**Jonathan Wight, University of Richmond, co-author of Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics as well as the author of Saving Adam Smith: A Tale of Wealth, Transformation and Virtue. Wight is a leading Smith scholar; his work focuses on Smith's views on ethics, morality, and justice.
**John Morton, Senior Program Officer, ACEE, Co-author of Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics.
Each Participant Receives:
- Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics curriculum - a $40 value!
- Interactive, Classroom-ready, Reproducible Lessons!
- Certificate for 6.5 hours professional development
Ethics and Economics curriculum website
Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 Location: Tucson
Virtual Economics
The Thomas R. Brown Foundation & the Arizona Council on Economic Education are proud to present a 1 day workshop for K-12 Teachers.
Don’t miss this opportunity to receive the most powerful curriculum-building tool ever produced. Virtual Economics provides the resources you need for teaching Arizona’s economics standards no matter what grade you teach. Every workshop participant will receive, gratis, a copy of the CD-ROM Virtual Economics with lessons for K-12 classes.
Just a few of the curriculum packages included in this CD-ROM:
- Teaching Economics Using Children’s Literature
- The Great Economics Mysteries Books (grades 4-12)
- Mathematics and Economics (grades 3-12)
- Economics in Action
- Entrepreneurship in the U. S. Economy
- Advanced Placement Economics
This Workshop Features:
- NO COST registration
- Participation in activity-based lessons
- NO COST curriculum ($100 value)
- Continental breakfast and lunch
- 6.5 hours of professional development
Wednesday, January 27, 2010: 8:30 am –3:00 pm, Tucson
Understanding Economics in US History
Presenters:
Mark Schug
Author of Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History
John Morton
ACEE Senior Program Officer and Nationally Known Economic Educator
Why Attend the Understanding Economics
in U.S. History workshop?
- Learn to apply key issues in history with outstanding and interactive lessons that feature six principles of economic reasoning.
- Solve the mysteries: Why American colonists fought a revolution when they were safe, prosperous, and free? and Indentured Servitude: Why Sell Yourself
into Bondage?
- Receive a copy of "Focus: Understanding Economics in U. S. History" - 450 pages of teacher resource materials divided into 39 classroom lessons, complete with worksheets. A $60 Value.
- Help students understand the forces of U.S. history from Native Americans to the end of the 20th century! Lessons are correlated with the Arizona Social Studies Standard Strands for U.S. History and Economics.
- Earn a certificate for 6.5 hours of professional development
View the US History and Economics website
View the Workshop Resources
(Registration Fee: $10)
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 – Tucson Location
Sponsored by the ACEE and TRBF
Virtual Economics
The Thomas R. Brown Foundation & the Arizona Council on Economic Education are proud to present a 1 day workshop for K-12 Teachers.
Don’t miss this opportunity to receive the most powerful curriculum-building tool ever produced. Virtual Economics provides the resources you need for teaching Arizona’s economics standards no matter what grade you teach. Every workshop participant will receive, gratis, a copy of the CD-ROM Virtual Economics with lessons for K-12 classes.
Just a few of the curriculum packages included in this CD-ROM:
- Teaching Economics Using Children’s Literature
- The Great Economics Mysteries Books (grades 4-12)
- Mathematics and Economics (grades 3-12)
- Economics in Action
- Entrepreneurship in the U. S. Economy
- Advanced Placement Economics
This Workshop Features:
- NO COST registration
- Participation in activity-based lessons
- NO COST curriculum ($100 value)
- Continental breakfast and lunch
- 6.5 hours of professional development
Tuesday, September 15, 2009: 8:30 am –3:00 pm, Tucson
Virtual Economics
One Day Workshop for K-12 Teachers
How are you fulfilling the state curriculum requirement to teach
Social Studies Strand 5, economics?
The Thomas R. Brown Foundation and Arizona Council on Economic Education are presenting a workshop - Virtual Economics - at which we will distribute a CD-ROM with with 1,000 ready-made lessons for classroom use, and then explore how to sort by state standard, subject, topic, grade level, etc.
The lessons are interdisciplinary, with examples from literature, math, social studies, history, government, etc. Space in the workshop is EXTREMELY limited because we will convene in a University computer lab with fixed space.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - Tucson, AZ
