Transcript Play - Texas Council on Economic Education

Laura Ewing
President/CEO
Texas Council on Economic Education
www.economicstexas.org
www.smartertexas.org
[email protected]
713-655-1650
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Click on “resources” for free
Texas economics books
• Teaches teachers who teach students who are the
future of Texas
• Provides interesting hands-on lessons that develop
critical thinking skills for students in Economics,
Social Studies, Math, and Career/Technical
Education classes.
This workshop and the accompanying materials are made
available to teachers through the generous support
of State Farm and the Council for Economic Education.
Economics Challenge
 Fall and Spring Online Testing
In Micro, Macro and
International Economics
 Adam Smith Division
2nd place national champs
Bellaire HS 2010/3rd 2012
 David Ricardo Division 3rd
place national champs Plano
HS 2010/4th place 2012
 State competition all online
this year
Personal Financial
Literacy Challenge
 Middle and High School
 Fall and spring online
challenges will
determine state finalist
candidates
 “State Play-Offs” in
Austin with cash awards
for two top teams
 HS national finals at Fed
in St. Louis
 Bellaire HS Houston 2nd
in nation 2012
Teams of 2 to 5 students
Grades 4 to 12
Cost: $10 a team
10 week Student Session
How Do You Get These Materials?
www.economicstexas.org
Select either
Browse Economics
Concepts
Or
Browse Economics
Lessons
Select Grade Band
Selected
lesson
You are early Anglos/German citizens who have come from
afar.
Think: Look at the map and decide where you would travel.
Why?
Where would you settle and why?
Pair: Share answers in groups of 2 or 3
Share: Share three answers with the class.
Germany and Texas Topo Maps
•1.
how Texans make a living
•2. where people settle
How would you write a sentence using all of the
terms below for the early Texas colonists?
Wants and needs, limited resources, scarcity,
empresario, entrepreneur
• Where do you live?
• Why do you live here?
• Why do you think citizens of the U. S. would move to
Texas?
• 1. Read page 44
• 2. What is the difference between these three land
grants?
• 3 Why do you think the land grants were set up this
way?
In looking at the topographic map of Germany,
what do you see?
2. How do you think people made a living based
on the structure?
3. In looking at the topo map of Texas, what areas
are similar to Germany? Where do you predict
people will move?
1.
Germany and Texas Topo Maps
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2.
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4.
5.
Read your selection from page 33 and/or 34.
What are the main points of the reading?
Illustrate your key points on the placemat.
Share your answers.
Using the center section, draw the common
answers that the Germans shared.