Bring the real world into your classroom with this interactive webinar designed to help educators use current events as a powerful tool for teaching the economic way of thinking.
In this one-hour session, you’ll explore strategies for connecting news headlines to key economic concepts, while fostering students’ critical thinking, media literacy, and decision-making skills.
Learn how to guide students in analyzing real-world issues through an economic lens, equipping them with tools to better understand the world around them.
Participants will receive ready-to-use lessons that can be immediately implemented in their classrooms. These activities are designed to promote student engagement and accountability, encouraging students to apply economic reasoning to current events in meaningful and measurable ways. This webinar will empower you to make economics timely, relevant, and impactful.
All attendees will:
- learn how to guide students in using economic reasoning to make sense of real-world events and issues.
- walk away with classroom-ready activities that promote engagement, inquiry, and application—perfect for middle and high school economics, social studies, and CTE courses.
- discover techniques to help students critically analyze news sources and evaluate the economic forces behind the headlines.
- receive 1 hour of professional development credit.
Please contact Kathy Pondy if you have any questions related to this webinar.
