In this issue:

Featured Lessons:

• Goods and Services
• How Labor Got Its Day
• Jobs: Who needs 'Em?
• Lemonade For Sale!

• EconEdLink Tools
• 2008 NCEE Annual Conference
• Thinkfinity.org unveils NEW site

Goods and Services
Students will be able to distinguish between people who produce goods and people who provide services to a community.

How Labor Got Its Day
If you asked students what comes to mind first when they think of Labor Day, what do you think they would say? The last days of summer? A family picnic? Shopping the Labor Day sales? The purpose of this lesson is to broaden and deepen student understanding of the Labor Day holiday. Students will learn why workers organized unions during the nineteenth century to fight for higher pay and better working conditions. They will discover that unions help balance the power between workers and employers—yielding a better life for many workers and their families today. This is a great lesson to do just before Labor Day. If your school doesn't begin till after the holiday, consider doing it on May 1—the International Worker's Rights Day!

This lesson is written for 3-5 students and can be found at the following web address:
www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lesson=EM745&page=teacher

Jobs: Who needs 'Em?
In this lesson students will look at the importance of having some kind of job. At early ages children sometimes get the idea that money grows on trees, and they should get anything that they want. This lesson will look at the consequences of having a job, having a non-paying job (like a stay-at-home mom), and having no job(whether intentional or not). Hopefully, by the time students finish this lesson, they will have a better understanding of the importance of good, hard work.

Lemonade For Sale!
Students will become online entrepreneurs, taking risks, and changing production methods to increase profits in a lemonade stand. This lesson would be taught after learning the basic concepts of productive resources, profit, and loss. Students would apply this prior knowledge to this new situation as an entrepreneur.

EconEdLink is a program of the National Council on Economic Education and a member of the Thinkfinity consortium. EconEdLink provides a premier source of classroom tested, internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students. EconEdLink continues to offer content based interactives that enhance over 560 lessons, and assist students as they explore economic concepts.

EconEdLink makes available a page within CyberTeach that lists several of our interactives, these can be used with our online lessons or used by you and your students to explain and learn many economic concepts.

To explore several of our interactives visit: www.econedlink.org/cyberteach/tools.cfm/

• The latest in curriculum development, instructional materials, teaching strategies, new programs and best practices.
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• Outstanding speakers on current economic topics.
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