Course Catalog

Looking for a tasty way to integrate innovation, decision making and goal setting into your classroom? With Chocolate Lessons, students will experience active learning by becoming consumers and producers, negotiating trades for their favorite chocolate treats, and designing a new chocolate sensation. Teachers will receive the Chocolate Economics Curriculum Guide for use in their classroom.

A FREE workshop which will show teachers how to utilize the tools, and pages on the SMG simulation. The Stock Market Game is a 30 + year program which takes teaching out of the text book and applies it to the real world. Students pair into teams with their classmates and decide how they will invest $100,000 an introduction to the basics of financial markets, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, investment strategies, and instructional resources - including how to play the Stock Market Game from.

Spring Stock Market Game begins February 21, 2012. Be sure to register your teams today! Visit www.smgohio.org for more details!
Last year, teams that had the winning portfolio had the chance to travel to New York City and meet business professional at leading investment firms!

Learn creative ways to teach about spending and saving decisions, budgets, personal financial planning and much more. Learn to use resources form a variety of banks and other financial organizations to prepare your students to be better consumers, savers and investors. A comprehensive teaching unit will be provided. Teacher Academy 1 not required to register.

Looking for new ways to teach about money in your classroom? Check out these great resources you can use with your students! Children’s literature and other fun, hands-on activities will be demonstrated. Participants will receive copies of the Piggy Bank Primer (teacher and student editions) and information on how to order more FREE copies!

Are you using a Smartboard in your classroom? Are you interested in learning from educators using this technology to integrate mathematics, language arts and social studies with financial literacy and economics? Come to this workshop and participate in lesson demos created for your Smartboard.

Learn ways to introduce the hot global economic issues of trade, growth, and economic systems into history, economics and government courses. How do global events and trends impact your students today and in their futures?

Looking for a way to connect Science with Social Studies? The Seas, Trees, & Economies curriculum provides 10 hands-on active-learning lessons that demonstrate how or natural environment and the economy work together to provide us with goods and services. With lesson titles such as The Jabawa Trees of Island Breeze, Eggs-ternal Costs, and The Lorax and What the Lore Lacks, how could Seas, Trees, and Economies be anything but fun! Teachers will receive a copy of the curriculum and demonstrations of the hands-on activities.

Get your young students ready for a creative and exciting way to learn economics...yes you heard right, economics and personal finance. Just add fun activities to your classroom and get your students excited about learning basic economic principles like scarcity, opportunity cost, and capital resources,
right from the start. Participants will receive a copy of Focus: Grades 3-5 Economics.

Travel around the world with great children’s literature. Bring your passport and experience books and engaging activities to use in your classroom. Participants will receive applicable children’s literature, lesson plans and materials.

Discover the wealth of resources Cincinnati's cultural institutions and businesses have to offer for your classroom. A series of one-day professional development programs are offered to teachers at wonderful local facilities in Cincinnati, our "Treasures". Past host organizations have been: The National Underground Railroad Museum, Cincinnati Museum Center, Greenacres, Granny's Garden School, Entertrainment Junction, Jungle Jim's International Market, and IKEA. Excellent activities, teaching materials and instructional resources for field trips or in-class instruction will connect to social studies, language arts, math and science curricula. Recommended for all grade K-8 educators.

Materials, refreshments and lunches will be provided.

Please register for each individual session you plan to attend. The programs begin at 8:30 or 9:00 am, and will end at 3:30 pm.
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THE TEACHER ACDAEMY HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO INADEQUATE ENROLLMENT. FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE, CONTACT DOUG HASKELL, 513-556-2951 or douglas.haskell@uc.edu.

This is the TEACHER ACADEMY I - The introductory level of the Financial Education Teacher Academy programs.

This program provides teachers with excellent curriculum materials and fun activities for personal finance instruction on a variety of topics. Activities provided in this course can be integrated into a variety of subject areas – math, social studies, business, consumer skills, etc. Learn how to teach about financial goals and values, working and earning, credit, practical money skills, etc. All participants will leave with a "bucket" filled with valuable resources to teach personal finance lessons across multiple grade levels and to students of all abilities.

The October 8, 2011, Teacher Academy 1 meets for one day. The June 19-20, 2012 Teacher Academy 1 meets for two days.

All participants will receive a free copy of the newly revised "Virtual Economics" CD Rom - over 1,500 lessons for teaching economics and personal finance.

The one-day "Teacher Academy 2" programs are more comprehensive information about "how to teach" the specific topics. Teacher Academy 2 programs will be held June 26-28, 2012.

Learn about a variety of resources for teaching about borrowing, lending and credit. The day will explore the resources, demonstrate selected lessons, and help you find new ways to include these topics in your curriculum. A comprehensive teaching unit will be provided. Completion of the Teacher Academy 1 is not required to register for this program.