Grades 9-12
Grade 9-12
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On-Demand Webinar
How to Integrate Economics into U.S. History
Time: 30 mins,
Presenter: Tawni Ferrarini
Objective
Teachers will be able to:
- Learn how to integrate economic policies in U.S. History.
Standards
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Description
Learn about CEE’s bestseller, FOCUS: Understanding Economics in U.S. History. You will learn how economics provides the best framework for thinking about the policies that are part of our history, including: how to strengthen the rigor and relevance in your classes by incorporating economic reasoning into the context of history instruction; how studying U.S. History through economics provides a new lens with which to view the world; how teaching history without economics provides an incomplete picture as economic issues have impacted all major historical events.
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