Advanced Placement Economics: Teachers Resource Manual

by John S. Morton, Rae Jean B. Goodman

Advanced Placement Economics is the perfect complement to your college-level economics textbook. Use these proven activity-based lessons to clearly illustrate and reinforce the economic principles you introduce in your lectures. You'’ll raise your teaching know-how to a new level and deliver confidence-building lessons that thoroughly prepare your students for the AP Economics exams. 1. Advanced Placement Teacher Resource Manual Use this powerful teacher guide to support your existing AP Economics curriculum. Unit plans give you a broad overview of the key AP Economics concepts, and the daily lesson plans are an in-depth guide through the most crucial economics principles. Your Manual Time-saving unit plans -– develop a teaching strategy that gets the key economic concepts across quickly and efficiently Practical daily lesson plans - easy step-by-step procedures show you how to deliver a memorable lesson Helpful visuals to the student activities -– you'’ll get plain language overheads that demonstrate vital concepts Answers to sample multiple-choice questions, sample free response questions, and activities You'll also get activity-based lessons that are NOT in the Student Activity Books... a great way to add fresh, new content to your classroom. Also Advanced Placement Economics - Student Activities - ISBN 1561835684
Advanced Placement Economics - Macroeconomics : Student Activities - ISBN 1561835676 The Council for Economic Education envisions a world in which people are empowered through economic and financial literacy to make informed and responsible choices throughout their lives as consumers, savers, investors, workers, citizens, and participants in our global economy. Some of the areas in K-12 education we publish in - Establishing and building credit - Managing personal finances - Understanding economics on a local, national, and global level - Using economics in other subject Social Studies, Geography, History, etc.

694 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

John S. Morton is the senior program officer for the Arizona Council on Economic Education. Previously, he was an economics teacher in Illinois, founder and director of the Governors State University Center for Economic Education (Illinois), founder and president of the Arizona Council on Economic Education, and vice president for program development for the Council for Economic Education. He chaired the advisory board of The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition from 1991 to 2000. Mr. Morton has written over 50 publications and books of instructional activities for the high school economics course, including four widely used textbooks. He has received awards for teaching economics, including the Bessie Moore Service Award and the John C. Schramm Leadership Award from the Council for Economic Education and the National Association of Economic Educators, the Freedoms Foundation Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, and the Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise Education from the Foundation of the National Federation of Independent Businesses.
He was greatly involved in establishing economics as an Advanced Placement course and served three years on the College Board task force to develop the AP economics curriculum and a subsequent four years on the exam development committee. He is the author of Advanced Placement Economics (Council for Economic Education), a widely used supplemental package for the AP economics course.