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Educator Resources
Videos
Lesson Plans
Videos
The Production Company's Broadcast Educational Documentaries
HOW TO $PEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE -- NOW THAT YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN
Audience:
· Adolescents age 16-20
· Parents, educators, and advisors who live and work with young adults.
Running Time: 22:25
How to $pend the Rest of Your Life provides young adults with an understanding
of the financial issues and responsibilities they will face once they live
home for college or a life on their own. Through "live" interviews
with actual young adults, the program examines the benefits of saving, credit,
and budgeting and the consequences of overspending. Through active example,
the program helps young adults become informed financial consumers and encourages
children and their parents to openly discuss financial realities and choices.
The program packet includes the video and a program fact sheet.
CHOICES & CHANGES: MAKING DECISIONS THAT MAKE SENSE
Audience:
· Adolescents age 11 - 20
· Teachers and parents of teenagers
Running Time: 22:25
Choices & Changes helps teens recognize that they need to make
informed decisions about sexual issues and that the choices they make today
can affect them for the rest of their lives. Hosted by Homocide's Rhonda
Overby, the program features learning segments which focus on: 1) teen sexuality
and abstinence; 2) STD's and teen pregnancy; 3) the academic and economic realities
of teen parenthood. Each segment includes candid interviews with actual teens.
The program packet includes the videotape and a 25-page learning activities
and resource guide.
MONEY MATTERS: KEEPING YOUR FINANCIAL FREEDOM
Audience:
· Adolescents age 14 - 18
· Teachers and parents of teenagers
Running Time: 22:25
Money Matters provides teens with practical information, so that they
can make more informed money management decisions. The program uses three "real
life" stories to explore banking services, credit, savings, and budget
issues. The program packet includes the videotape and a 29-page learning activities
and resource guide.
LIFE LESSONS -- TEACHING ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL LITERACY
Audience
· Parents
· Educators
· Community leaders, organizations, and advocates
Running Time: 22:25
Life Lessons promotes economic and financial literacy education for
children at home and in school. It includes three "story" segments:
Teaching Children at Home - Documents the challenges that parents
face in providing their children with money management and consumer life skills.
This segment also suggests hands-on activities that parents can use to effectively
teach these lessons at home.
In-School Teaching Strategies - Explores resources and strategies
that help teachers incorporate economic and financial curriculum in their classes.
Long-Term Rewards - Highlights the benefits that accrue for children,
their families, and their communities when they receive economic and financial
literacy education.
The program resource packet includes the video and a 10-page viewing guide.
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Lessons
Performance based lessons to teach Economics and Geography using children's
books were developed by the Council on Economic Education and the Maryland
Geographic Alliance. These lessons are available to Maryland teachers free
of charge. Out of state teachers can purchase sets of lessons for a nominal
fee of: $45.00. For information contact Marilyn Nall at (410) 830-2137.
Primary Set
Coming to America: The Story of Immigration, by Betsy Maestro. New York: Schlastic,
Inc., 1996
Emeka's Gift: An African Counting Story, by Ifeoma Onyefulu (Cobblehill Books,
New York, 1995)
Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey (The Viking Press, New York, 1941)
Bay Shore Park: The Death and Life of an Amusement Park, by Victoria Crenson.
New York: Scientific Books for Young Readers, an imprint of W.H. Freeman and
Co., 1995
The Big Green Pocketbook, by Candice Ransom (A Laura Geringer Book, Harper Collins
Publisher, Mexico, 1993)
Down Buttermilk Lane, by Barbara Mitchell with illustrations by John Sandford
(Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books, New York, 1993)
Eight Hands Round, A Patchwork Alphabet, by Ann Whitford Paul. New York: Harper
Collins, 1991
The Goat in the Rug, by Charles L. Blood and Martin Link with illustrations by
Nancy Winslow Parker (Aladdin Books, New York, 1990 edition)
Going To Town, by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper Collins, USA, 1932)
Houses and Homes, by Ann Morris (Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books, New York, 1992)
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, by Marion Priceman (Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc., New York, 1994)
On an Island in the Bay, by Patricia Mills. New York: North-South Books, 1994
Pancakes, Pancakes!, by Eric Carle (Scholastic Inc., New York, NY, 1990)
When I Was Little, by Toyomi Igus (Just Us Books, Orange, NJ, 1992)
For Rent, by Charles E. Martin (Greenwillow Books, William Morrow & Co.,
Inc., New York, 1986)
Mama is a Miner, by George Ella Lyon (Orchard Books, New York, 1994)
Apple Picking Time, by Michele Benoit (Slawson, Crown Publishers, Inc. (A Random
House Company), New York, 1994)
Pioneer Bear, by Joan Sandin. 0-679-86050-9
Everybody Cooks Rice, by Norah Dooley (Scholastic Inc., New York, NY, 1992)
Masai and I, by Virginia Kroll (Four Winds Press, New York, 1992)
Abuela's Weave, by Omar S. Casteneda (Lee & Low Books, Inc., New York, 1993)
Winter Wheat, by Brenda Z. Guiberson. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995.
Intermediate Set
The Amish, by Doris Faber. New York: Doubleday, 1991.
By the Dawn's Early Light, by Steven Kroll. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1994
The Ice Horse, by Candace Christiansen with illustrations by Thomas Locker (Dial
Books, New York, 1993)
Bananas - From Manolo to Margie, by George Ancona (Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin,
New York, 1982)
The Boy Who Saved the Town, by Brenda Seabrooke. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers,
1990.
Get Growing, by Candace Savage with illustrations by Gary Clement (Firefly Books,
Buffalo, NY, 1982)
The House on Maple Street, by Bonnie Pryor with illustrations by Beth Peck (Mulberry
Books, New York, 1987)
The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of History, by John S. Major with illustrations by
Stephen Fieser (Harper Collins, USA, 1995)
Uncle Jed's Barbershop, by Margaree King Mitchell with illustrations by James
Ransome, (Scholastic Inc., New York, 1994)
The Chester Town Tea Party, by Brenda Seabrooke with illustrations by Nancy Coates
Smith (Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Maryland, 1991)
The Day They Left the Bay, by Mick Blackistone with illustrations by Lee Boynton
(Acropolis Books, LTD, Washington, DC, 1988)
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?, by Jean Fritz with pictures by Tomi
de Paola (Scholastic Inc., New York, 1977)
Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon, by David Williams with illustrations by Wiktor
Sadowski, (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1993)
Minty, A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, by Alan Schroeder and Jerry Linkney.
New York: Dial Books, 1996.
On the Way Home: A Diary of a Trip From South Dakota to Manfield, Missouri In
1894, by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper Trophhy, New York, 1976)
Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachian (Harper Collins, A Charlotte Zolotow
Book, New York, 1985)
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, by Deborah Hopkinson with illustrations by
James Ransome (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1993)
A Thieft on Morgan's Plantation, by Lisa Banim. New York: Silver Moon Press,
1995
The Trail on Which They Wept, The Story of a Cherokee Girl, by Dorothy and Thomas
Hoobler with pictures by S.S. Vurrus (Silver Burdett Press, Morristown, NJ, 1992)
Two Tickets to Freedom, by Florence B. Freedman (Scholastic Inc., New York, 1971)
What Are You Figuring Now? A Story about Benjamin Banneker, by Jeri Ferris. Minneapolis,
Minnesota: Carolrhoda Books, 1988.
The World Turned Upside Down, Children of 1776: the Story of an Annapolis Family
During the Revolutionary War, by Ann Dowsett Jensen. Annapolis, MD: Sands Housem
1993.
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