All FTE residential programs are offered at no cost! If you get there, FTE will put you up, feed you, provide outstanding instructors and classroom materials. You'll experience interactive economic education as it was meant to be: engaging, empowering, and enjoyable.

The Right Start in Teaching Economics
March 13 - 16, 2010
A four-day residential program which primarily focuses on economic content. Also included will be demonstration lectures, simulations, special topic discussions and readings.

Environment and The Economy
April 24 - 27, 2010
During this four-day, residential programs, teachers learn how to use economic principles to analyze environmental issues. Participants learn how a rational, economic approach to the environment helps students understand the complexity of these issues... more

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

What�s behind the ups and downs of the business cycle? What causes recessions? How do bubbles and bailouts fit in to all this? This workshop features historical economic lessons from the Great Depression, lessons to help you and your students understand the economic indicators that measure the performance of our economy, as well as a look at the parallels between the current economic recession and the Great Depression. Participants get The Great Depression curriculum.

In light of the current economic climate, this workshop features the Focus: Economic Systems curriculum which helps you give your students the tools necessary for analyzing the changing role of government in the market place. Your students will explore, analyze, and answer questions such as:

• What is the economic basis for land ownership and resources?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of central decision-making?
• What is the appropriate scope of, and limits to, competition?
• What is governments role in a market economy?
• How much security should government provide for low-income workers?
• How much inequality in distribution of wealth is acceptable?

Introduce your middle or high school students to the world of investing--its benefits and risks and the critical role it plays in fostering capital formation and job creation in our free market system. They'll take a critical look at investment opportunities  mutual funds, stocks, bonds, and more  and uncover strategies for building lasting wealth! Give your math lessons new meaning with real world applications of simple vs. compound interest, calculating dividends, and the Rule of 72!

• Hands-on Activities!
• A GREAT Supplement to the Stock Market Game!
• Real-world Applications for your MATH lessons!
• All participants get the Learning, Earning & Investing curriculum
  � A $25 value

Join ACEE and learn about this thrilling real-life simulation that is certain to peak your students interests in addition to reinforcing Arizona Standards in Economics, Personal Finance, Math, Business, Language Arts, and Social Studies.

First Fall game starts Sept. 8. Last Fall game starts Oct. 12.