CEE: The Power of Storytelling: From Book to Movie

In this webinar teachers will:

• Explore the concept of the value of using children’s literature to teach in the content areas.
• Relate the concepts of scarcity, goods, services, opportunity cost, and decision-making as they pertain to the featured titles.
• Consider the cross curricular possibilities of the topic as related to the social sciences and creative problem solving.
• Recognize the value of taking advantage of trends in popular culture.
• Review an annotated bibliography listing new children’s books that contain economic and personal finance content.
• Consider the National Economics Content Standards: Standard 1: Scarcity, Standard 2: Decision Making, Standard 3: Allocation, Standard 4: Incentives, Standard 7: Markets and Prices, Standard 14: Entrepreneurship.