Simple Studies: Money & Economics

Simple Studies: Money & Economics

Our Money & Economics literature guide makes economics approachable, engaging, and enjoyable for grades 5+ through high school.

Students narrate, discuss, write and draw their reflections, keep a commonplace notebook, watch educational videos, research fascinating economic and monetary history, design their own fictional or real business and explore the stories behind how markets work, and more.

Throughout this guide, students will begin to understand how money, prices, and free markets affect their everyday lives — all while you simply read aloud and discuss. These open-and-go lessons also offer tons of simple yet optional additional activities using historical biographies, dictation, and literature ideas providing students launching pads for creative thinking, problem-solving, research-driven writing, design skills, common placing, memorizing biblical texts and more. High Schoolers get to deep dive in research, composition and Socratic discussions.

Included in this study:

• Simple Family-Style Lessons that correspond with each chapter
• Family “Great Conversation” Socratic Discussion Questions with each lesson
• Chapter & Reference Booklists for each lesson
• Chapter Review and Narration prompts
• Specific Visual Aid, Research and/or video links with most lessons
• Dictation Exercises (all lessons)
• Optional Additional Activity Ideas
• Bible Verse Memorization Activities
• Parent Guided Support on Common placing, Oral & Written Narrations and more
• Economic Historical Figure Character Study
• Two Optional Final Project Prompts and more…

Instructors will need one additional item on hand to complete the lessons: Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? by Richard J. Maybury.