Fair Trade Campaigns has developed a series of lesson plans to help educators bring the concept of Fair Trade into their middle and high school classrooms. There are four distinct lessons, covering four subject areas in relation to Fair Trade:- Changing the Rules of the Global Economy: An Introduction to Fair Trade - Gender Equity and Fair Trade - Child Labor and Fair Trade - Environmental Sustainability and Fair Trade Each lesson includes several activities, which can be completed individually or as a full, sequential lesson. The lessons come with an accompanying Educator’s Guide which…

Confronting Poverty (confrontingpoverty.org) is a new website that offers a set of resources dealing with American poverty and inequality. Most notable is an interactive "poverty risk calculator" that estimates for the first time the likelihood that an individual will experience poverty at some point in their future. The idea is similar to the heart disease risk calculators that you can find on the Internet. In this case, the data is based on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (psidonline.isr.umich.edu). But do probabilities dictate a person's fate? That's a compelling question that we…

High school ethnic studies courses that address the perspectives and experiences of people of color are increasingly in demand. The author describes the thematic, inquiry-based approach she developed that reflects her school’s diversity.

Exploring cryptocurrencies with students is an excellent way to increase their knowledge of basic economic concepts.

Four bedrock personal finance principles can help teachers ride out uncertain economic times and assist them in teaching students about making economic decisions.

This discussion-based lesson plan invites students to explore how personal economic decisions affect them in the short and long term.

In this engaging activity, AP Psychology students used ArcGIS Online and Survey123 to make connections between geographic locations and students’ emotional responses to those places.

A close look at how the Federal Reserve adjusts interest rates to temper inflation can help students comprehend how monetary policy impacts their own lives.

The highlighted inquiry about labor activist Joe Hill can launch a fascinating lesson on organized labor and different economic systems.  

Local walking field trips enable young people to learn financial literacy concepts and practices that reflect their own community’s history, economics, and conceptions of wealth.