There are three more ODU workshops coming up in case anyone is interested! They are great workshops with lots of materials!
Picture This! Bulletin Board Economics
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 4:30 – 6:30pm
Virginia Beach Higher Education Center
Receive a set of 12 posters when you attend this workshop. These posters, illustrating economic and financial literacy concepts, give teachers innovative teaching tools to cover the SOL economics strand. During the workshop we will review the K-3 economics concepts and learn great tips on teaching them in your classroom. Connect the concepts with the provided list of children’s literature and you have ready-made interdisciplinary lessons.
To register please provide your name, school, grade you teach, and phone number to Ruth Cookson by email
(rcookson@odu.edu) or by phone (683-5570). Free
Economics, Money and Children’s Literature
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:30 – 7:30pm
Virginia Beach Higher Education Center
Personal Finance and Children’s Literature is a resource manual with
15 lesson plans on popular children’s trade books that teach about money skills and math. Lessons are designed for children in grades K-3 and provide literature connections with the following books: Annie’s Pet, Beatrice’s Goat, Bunny Money, Glow goes Shopping, The Case of Shrunken Allowance, My Rows and Piles of Coins, Pigs will be Pigs, Matilda The Moocher, Doggone Lemonade Stand, plus seven more titles. Participants will receive a copy of the curriculum.
To register please provide your name, school, grade you teach, and phone number to Ruth Cookson by email
(rcookson@odu.edu) or by phone (683-5570). Free
Risky Business: What Every Teenager Needs to Know About Living Smart for Grades: 6-12
Thursday, November 6, 2008 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Tri- Cities Higher Education Center, Portsmouth (College Drive)
Risky Business shows your students how sound economic decision-making can empower teenagers to enter their adult years with skills to be healthy, wealthy, and secure. This complete DVD teaching resource contains four 15-20 minute video segments that are complemented by 12 lessons and activities (3 for each video). Workshop participants receive the DVD (a $99
value) which is also a wonderful resource for meeting several of the newly mandated Economic Education & Personal Finance Literacy Objectives.
To register please provide your name, school, grade you teach, and phone number to Ruth Cookson by email (rcookson@odu.edu) or by phone (683-5570).
Available for recertification credit. Limited to 12 participants!
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