U N I V E R S I T Y O F I L L I N O I S A T C H I C A G O Center for Center for Economic Education Economic Department of Economics (m/c 144) 601 S. Morgan Street, Room 2103 Education Chicago, IL 60607 http://cee.econ.uic.edu 312.413.3599

EXCELLENT WEB SITES ON ECONOMICS: Grades K-8

National Council on Economic Education http://www.economicsamerica.org There are free lessons and links on this website plus a link to EconEdLink, (or go directly to http://www.econedlink.org) where teachers can select On-Line Lessons and search for lessons by title, concept, grade level, or standard. GREAT LESSONS!

EcEdWeb from the University of Nebraska at Omaha http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/K-12/home.cfm This award-winning site has great information on it directly, and links to MANY other economics and business education sites.

Federal Reserve Bank System http://www.federalreserveeducation.org/ The Federal Reserve banks coordinate their lessons, publications, and information for teachers at this site.

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago http://www.chicagofed.org/ The Publications and Education Resources section has lots of good material on banking, finance and economics in general. It has MANY FREE PUBLICATIONS you can order on-line or by phone. See also CEDRIC, the Consumer and Economic Development Information and Research Center. Check out the links to the other Feds as well, especially the Fed of San Francisco.

MarcoPolo http://www.marcopolo-education.org This is an interdisciplinary site with links to excellent educational sites for economics, geography, humanities, math, and science.

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PBS TeacherSource http://www.pbs.org/teachersource This is a mega-site with over 1300 lessons and activities on virtually any subject, for grades preschool through 12. They even link lessons directly to Illinois State Standards.

Practical Money Skills http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/index.php Lessons, games, calculators for elementary, middle, and high school students, plus parents and SPANISH-LANGUAGE materials are on this website. It also correlates lessons to Illinois State Standards in English, math and social studies.

The Stock Market Game http://stockmarketgame.org This excellent market simulation teaches children how the stock market works, as well as other economic and personal finance lessons.

biz/ed http://www.bized.ac.uk/stafsup/options/option7.htm This British site has an excellent searchable glossary and great tutorials.

Savings Bonds for Kids http://www.savingsbonds.gov/sav/savkids.htm See especially the curriculum MoneyMath, which addresses financial literacy for middle-schoolers. The overall site has facts and games for kids to learn what bonds are, how they can be purchased, and how they mature.

Wise Pockets http://www.wisepockets.com This is an excellent FREE site with cartoon stories to teach good decisionmaking and basic economics to children (K-2), with brief quizzes and prizes at the end of each story.

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Tel (312) 355-0378 Fax (312) 996-3344 [email protected]