Right Tools for the Job

You can’t escape the negative economic news. Your students can’t either. The fortunate ones are aware of the belt-tightening going on in their home but aren’t feeling the pinch too badly. It is a story they hear in the background on the evening news or see as a headline in the daily newspaper. The less lucky ones are feeling the direct impact of a job loss or a home foreclosure on their family. They are sensing the anxiety and trying to understand what is going on around them.

Teachers see the need to help their students better understand the social and geopolitical implications caused by the local, national and international shockwaves of the economic tumult of today. They also see the need to create a historical perspective by exploring the last worldwide economic meltdown of the 1930’s, known as the Great Depression.

To help meet that need, CET has brought together many useful digital multimedia resources and organized them on the Internet for your classroom use. On our Learn About Our Economy webpage, you’ll find video segments from our Producing Ohio multimedia curriculum kit and links back to the Producing Ohio website where you’ll find lesson plans, a standards correlation chart and more resources appropriate for the middle school classroom. On our Economic and Financial Literacy webpage, you’ll find a wide array of video and text resources for use with teens and young adults.

- Diane