The Power of Storytelling: The Titanic, The Great Depression, and Pandemics

In this webinar teachers will:

• Explore the concept of the value of using children’s literature to teach in the content areas with an emphasis on social studies.
• Relate the concepts of scarcity, choices, opportunity cost, incentives, and decision-making as they pertain to the featured titles.
• Consider the cross curricular possibilities of the topic as related to the social sciences and creative problem solving.
• Recognize the value of the social commentary featured in the session’s topic.
• Review an annotated bibliography listing topical titles.
• Consider the National Economics Content Standards: Standard 1: Scarcity, Standard 2: Decision Making, Standard 3: Allocation, Standard 4: Incentives.