Grades 9 thru 12
Bundle Includes:
- Student Text
- Teacher's Edition
This new edition of Economics: Institutions and Analysis follows the Voluntary National Standards put out by the National Council on Economic Education.
All of the statistics, graphs, and tables have been updated, as well as many of the photographs.
Each chapter of the text has been updated to reflect current trends in economic thought and business practices.
Modern concepts such as globalization, outsourcing, quality circles, and just-in-time manufacturing are discussed.
More emphasis on using the Internet for economic research has been added
8 units and 25 chapters
Unit IV, Personal Economics, emphasizes the immediate and practical importance to students of the need for financial planning while they are still in high school.
This unit will help students manage their financial resources as workers, producers, savers, and investors.
Unit II concentrates on businesses.
Moreover, there are special, related features or discussions related to entrepreneurship spread throughout the text, such as Is Entrepreneurship for You? (page 75); Businesses Finance (Chapter 5); How Labor Unions Operate (Chapter 9); Nature of Government Regulations of Businesses (page 154); Advantages and Disadvantages of Sole Proprietorships, Partnerships, and Corporations (pages 76-83); and Use of Supply and Demand in Determining the Price of Goods (Chapter 3).
This edition gives students more instruction in the topic of consumer education, including the topics of Preparing a Budget (pages 215-218) and Buying Insurance (Chapter 12).
The Teacher Edition has lesson plans, teaching strategies, activities, a bibliography, and reproducible chapter tests and unit tests.
Presents fully developed lessons, each with objectives, lists of key terms and major concepts, strategies for teaching and expanding the lesson, portfolio projects and complete answers to all text questions.
At the end of the manual are a bibliography, Internet sources, 25 chapter tests, eight unit tests, and test answers
