Orca Tamer

Whether you have always been intrigued by the study of allocating scarce resources, or only know that a credit card can get you groceries at the store, hopefully this course will help you notice and appreciate how goods, services, and money flow around you every day of your life. This is a complete one-year economics curriculum designed for 11th and 12 grade homeschoolers. It contains 34 weeks of lesson plans, daily worksheets (with answer keys!), and writing assignments that would give credit f

While teaching an economics/financial literacy course for 11th/12th grade, we used the non-fiction work Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo as a "living book" to see how different economic concepts work in the real world. I made worksheets for every chapter of the book giving students a place to track studies performed and key discoveries made by the authors. Because our students also read Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell the same year, one worksheet with compare the two boo

Created for students who think a little harder and retain a little better when they actually have to write down answers, this resource includes a "playsheet" and space to write in answers for every chapter of Life of Fred: Financial Choices. Where Dr. Schmidt has already assigned homework, his questions are copied down exactly. For the chapters without a published "Your Turn to Play" section, additional worksheets have been created. This resource is being shared with the express written consent