Labor Day is an excellent time to dig into social studies themes civic ideas, power authority and governance, and production/distribution of goods are all relevant. What will you do?
This is an amazing resource from the MAGE center at Macalester. Click on each of the sessions at the top to see a list of free curriculum resources on Social Studies themes. Also look for opportunities to do free education forums with this group. Very useful materials!
Spend, share, and save. Students can learn the difference between wants and needs. Lessons on earning and spending money. Also lessons on paying taxes. Great sight for teachers. as well as games for students.
This site is a great resource for learning econonmic principles. It includes helpful information for consumers, fun for kids and lesson ideas for teachers.
This list will let you do all sorts of Social Studies related math with students and begs the question: Would we be in this economic situation if social studies standards had more specific content around personal finance?
"In order to fully understand the geographic concept of natural resource use, students should learn about the ways that resource extraction affects the physical and human landscape. In this lesson, they will discuss how a specific economic activity in a region can facilitate the creation of towns, which often turn into ghost towns if the economic activity ends."
This is a real cool website about snowmobiles and creating your own little one through recycled parts. Living in northern Minnesota I see the importance of the snowmobile and see many that depend on this industry for their livlihood.
A lot of great information on economic releases. This site also has a link for careers for kids. They can choose what they are interested in and read about it. Great way to help them learn what they may want to do someday.