Foundation for Teaching Economics- This source includes free workshops for high school teachers and students. The Foundation for Teaching Economics (FTE) has everything helpful in teaching economics is included: workshop dates, locations, registration information, lesson plans, activities and other resources. The FTE is a nonprofit organization supplying economic educational teaching instruction to educators and their students. Improving our nation and globally by impacting teachers, designing lessons plans, offering seminars and presenting classroom support for teachers is the FTE’s goal.

National Council on Economic Education Online Lessons – Featuring curriculum, educational materials and teacher training in economics. There are over 639 lessons to select from for grades K-12.

EconEdLink- This link provides economic lessons adapted for the Internet and have been classroom-tested for K-12 teachers and their students.  Teachers can easily personalize their curriculum to suit their classroom with over 250 leesons to pick from.

ECONnections – This link includes lesson plans directly from the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) and are modified for the Internet with interactive activities for students and “volunteer experts” from The McGraw-Hill Companies.

EconomicsInternational – Backed by the U.S. Department of Education, this program offers aid to teachers for areas in transition to market economies.  The lessons included on this site help teach American students about the global economy.  They currently reach over 6.4 million students and serve 21 counties since 1995.

National Budget Simulation – This site offers a simple simulation that illustrates how and why trade-offs are made by policy makers for dealing with deficits and creating federal budgets.

Journal of Economic Education- This site has the latest research on pioneering and effective economic education techniques for K-12 and university levels. They also provide free downloadable aritcles in PDF format.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence- Many federal agencies provide resources for teaching and learning experiences.  Thousands of photographs, videos, primary documents, and animations from several main categories: Arts & Music, Health & Phys. Ed., History & Soc. Studies, Language Arts, Math and Science. Example: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest includes more than 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text pertaining to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest: the Northwest Coast and Plateau from the Library of Congress.

Economics University – This link offers many lessons on economics for classroom use.

Thinkfinity – This is a great resource for education, literacy, and technology.

Northwest Regional Education Laboratory - This link provides educational research-based products, technical support, and training.

The Lessons Plans Page – More than 3,000 free lessons plans for educators are available on this handy site.

The Florida Center for Reading Research – Researching information on literacy instruction and assessment can be found on this website.