CEE: Using Children’s Picture Books to Learn About Little-Known African American Entrepreneurs and Inventors

In this webinar teachers will:

• Celebrate the achievements of African American inventors and entrepreneurs.
• Explore the concept of the value of using children’s picture book biographies to teach the economic concepts of investing in human capital, entrepreneurship, costs & benefits, public goods, opportunity cost, and productive resources.
• Consider the cross curricular possibilities of the topic as related to history, literature, and economics.
• Review an annotated bibliography listing children’s books that contain economic concepts dealing with picture book biographies.
• Address the National Economics Content Standards: Standard 1: Scarcity, Standard 2: Decision Making, Standard 14: Entrepreneurship