Unit Description:
This useful booklet describes the design and structure of problem based learning, and gives recommendations on how to sequence the Problem Based Economics units within a typical stand-alone high school economics course. A chart lists the Core Skills – also known as interdisciplinary, workplace, and critical thinking skills – that are built by each unit. This Overview also shows the alignment of each unit with Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics formulated by the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) in partnership with the National Association of Economic Educators (NAEE), the Foundation for Teaching Economics, and the American Economic Association’s (AEA) Committee on Education. Finally, the booklet includes a test bank of items for assessing students’ understanding of the cross-unit economic concepts of scarcity, tradeoffs, and opportunity costs.