All Council for Economic Education Publications

View all the current publication from the Council for Economic Education. These publications range in grade from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Click on the links below to filter the publications or click on the book cover to view the publication on the Council for Economic Education's Online Store.

Choices and Changes: In Life, School, and Work - Grades 5-6 - Teacher

Choices and Changes: In Life, School, and Work - Grades 5-6 - Teacher's Resource Manual

This publication contains complete instructions for teaching the lessons in Choices and Changes, Grades 5-6. The Choices and Changes series is designed to help students understand how the U.S. economy works and their roles in the economy as consumers, savers and workers.

Economics & Entrepreneurship: Operating a Classroom Business in the Elementary and Middle School

Economics & Entrepreneurship: Operating a Classroom Business in the Elementary and Middle School

This revised and updated "how to" guide is a great way to start a classroom business with your students.

Economics and the Environment: Ecodetectives

Economics and the Environment: Ecodetectives

Students use economic reasoning to investigate 15 environmental mysteries.

Energy, Economics, and the Environment: Case Studies and Teaching Activities for Elementary School

Energy, Economics, and the Environment: Case Studies and Teaching Activities for Elementary School

This publication helps elementary students analyze energy and environment issues from an economics perspective.

Financial Fitness for Life: Grades 6-8 - Teacher Guide

Financial Fitness for Life: Grades 6-8 - Teacher Guide

This publication contains 17 lessons that complement the 6-8 Student Workbook. Specific to grades 6-8 are a variety of activities, including developing criteria that students think would make a good graham cracker and taste-testing to determine which graham cracker meets their needs; deciding which activities are better suited to careers or hobbies; and learning how important planning is to the success of any goal or event.

Financial Fitness for Life: Test Examiner

Financial Fitness for Life: Test Examiner's Manual - Grades 6-8

These grades 6-8 assessments can be used with Financial Fitness for Life or any other curriculum materials you're using to teach personal finance. You'll measure your students' progress in four key areas of personal finance: earning an income, saving, spending and credit, and money management.

Focus: Middle School Economics

Focus: Middle School Economics

Students apply economics concepts and economic reasoning to real-world situations in a series of interactive units pertaining to 6 societal roles.

Focus: Middle School World History

Focus: Middle School World History

Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History uses a unique mystery-solving approach to teach U.S. economic history to your high school students.

Mathematics & Economics: Connections for Life - 6-8

Mathematics & Economics: Connections for Life - 6-8

Created specifically for middle school mathematics teachers, this publication shows how mathematics concepts and knowledge can be used to develop economic and personal financial understandings.

Middle School World Geography: Focus on Economics

Middle School World Geography: Focus on Economics

This publication blends the disciplines of geography and economics through 9 activity-based lessons for middle school students.

Playful Economics

Playful Economics

Designed primarily for elementary and middle school students, each of the 15 lessons in this guide introduces an economics concept through activities with modeling clay.

The Classroom Mini-Economy

The Classroom Mini-Economy

A hands-on guide to starting and managing a successful classroom economy.

The Great Economic Mysteries Book: A Guide to Teaching Economic Reasoning, Grades 4-8

The Great Economic Mysteries Book: A Guide to Teaching Economic Reasoning, Grades 4-8

This publication introduces students in grades 4-8 to an economic way of thinking through exploring the mysteries of everyday life. Students solve each mystery by responding to hints provided by simple true/false questions and by reference to a logical system of reasoning that applies basic economic principles.

The Wide World of Trade

The Wide World of Trade

This publication has 11 lessons designed to teach middle school students the basics of world trade and international finance.

Trading Around the World

Trading Around the World

Created as a supplement to existing middle school world geography and world history courses, the 5 units in this guide introduce students to the basics of global trade.