Arizona Financial
Literacy and Economic
Education Conference
Enlighten, Engage, Empower
Saturday, October 19th, 2024
8:00am - 3:30pm
Conference Agenda
Conference Sessions
Elementary Sessions:
Dollars and Sense: Building Financial Skills in Young Learners
Effective Strategies for Teaching Arizona’s Economic Social Studies Standards for Elementary Educators
Engaging Young Minds: Elementary Economic Education Programs
Secondary Sessions:
Transforming Financial Knowledge into Financial Behaviors
Tragedy of the Commons: A Systems Thinking Approach to an Economic Concept
Engaging Vocabulary Instruction for the Economics Classroom
Creating Young Entrepreneurs Through Shark Tank
The Economics of Stadium Building: Who Wins? Who Loses?
Math Connections Sessions:
Smart Money Moves: Teaching Financial Decision-making to Middle School Students
Dollars and Sense: Building Financial Skills in Young Learners
Making Math Real for Students Through Economic and Financial Connections
K-12 Sessions:
Economics 2.0: Tailoring Education for Every Student
My Classroom Economy
Food Truck Wars: Cross-Curricular Entrepreneurial Engagement for Elementary & Middle School
Empowering Student Choice through School Participatory Budgeting
Advanced Placement Sessions:
Play to Learn: Appreciate Forex Rates with a Board Game
Understanding Unemployment Through Inductive Reasoning
Mastering Engagement: Innovative Tools for Deep Learning in the Advanced Placement Micro and Macroeconomics Classroom
Micro-transactions & Microeconomics: How Video Games Make Money