High School Economics Curriculum
Savvas Economics helps students build an essential, life-long understanding of core economics principles.
- It features motivating, hands-on activities, interactive graphics, animations, videos, and more. It bridges time-tested best practices, curriculum standard expectations, and technology for 21st century learners.
- It helps prepare students to be college and career ready.
Build Economic Literacy
Economics is a flexible, differentiated, student-centered program with robust teacher support. It engages students by connecting headlines to students’ lives today.
A four-part learning model enhances student understanding.
Students learn core economic principles through four stages: connect, investigate, synthesize, and demonstrate. This model reinforces personalization, critical thinking, analysis, and hands-on practicum activities.
Digital and print course options support classroom flexibility and differentiation.
The Economics digital courseware on Savvas Realize® includes robust digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms.
Aligned with standards and geared toward college readiness.
Economics bridges time-tested best practices, curriculum standard expectations, and technology to help prepare students to be college and career ready.
Hosted on Savvas Realize® learning management system.
Digital course content on the Savvas Realize® platform is dynamic, flexible, and customizable for individual classroom needs. Realize uses the power of technology to bring social studies to life.
High School Economics Program
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Research-Tested, Four-Part Learning Model
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Next-Generation Learning
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Customizable and Accessible
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Print and Digital Content
Research-Tested, Four-Part Learning Model
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ConnectStudents make learning personal as they connect to content through a story and activate their prior knowledge, personal experiences, and perspectives.
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InvestigateStudents actively learn, investigate, and acquire key content knowledge through a variety of print and digital components.
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SynthesizeStudents extend their understanding by applying what they just learned in a quick recap and "pull-it-all-together" exercise before they move on to the next lesson.
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DemonstrateStudents demonstrate their understanding through a variety of authentic, formative, and summative assessments.
Next-Generation Learning
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Content Features
- Economics was created in collaboration with educators, social studies experts, and students.
- Higher-level content enables students to access complex text, acquire core content knowledge, and tackle rigorous questions
- Inquiry-focused Projects, Civic Discussions, and Document Analysis activities develop content and skills mastery in preparation for real-world challenges.
- Essential questions and stories increase long-term understanding and learning retention.
Customizable and Accessible
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Resources
Teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. Resources include:
- Lesson summary videos
- Interactive Primary Sources
- Interactive Digital Activities
- Quest Topic Inquiry projects
Print and Digital Content
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Teacher’s Edition
- Wrap-around pages that provide direct instruction and teaching suggestions to engage students.
- Planning pages for each topic and lesson make implementation and pacing easy for teachers.
- Active Classroom Strategies, ELL support, and more are available at point of use.
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Foundational Student Edition
- Magazine-style layout to increase readability, with a 50/50 text- to-visual balance.
- Reading and Notetaking Study Guide Workbook contains lesson summaries and opportunities for guided note-taking to encourage close-reading skills.
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Preview your week ahead, adjust your daily lesson plans, review student and class progress, build and share lessons with your own content, or easily search for differentiated resources to inspire more “lightbulb” moments for your students. Realize’s single-sign-on platform makes it all easy and manageable.
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High School Economics Curriclum
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What is Economics?
Economics for grades 9-12 is a print and digital student-centered program with robust teacher support. Economics focuses on engaging students by connecting headlines to students’ lives today, a foundation of inquiry-based learning, engaging digital activities, and more.
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What is available to purchase?
The program is made up of the following components:
- Student Edition – available in digital or print, the foundational student edition has a magazine-style layout to increase readability with a 50/50 text to visual balance.
- Teacher’s Edition – available in digital or print, the Teacher’s Edition includes wrap-around pages that provide direct instruction and teaching suggestions to engage students. Planning pages for each topic and lesson make implementation and pacing easy for teachers. Active Classroom Strategies, ELL support, and more are available at point of use.
- Economics Digital Course – the Economics digital courseware on Savvas Realize™ includes robust digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Teachers can also customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. Resources include:
- Lesson summary videos
- Interactive Primary Sources
- Interactive Digital Activities
- Quest Topic Inquiry projects
- Reading and Notetaking Study Guide Workbook – Available in digital and print, this workbook contains lesson summaries and opportunities for guided note taking to encourage close reading skills.
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Is Economics inquiry based?
Economics is built on the C3 Framework for inquiry in social studies. Each topic and lesson follows the Connect-Investigate-Synthesize-Demonstrate learning model. You will also find the Quest Topic Inquiry, which contains project-based assessment such as civic discussion, document-based writing, or a team project. The teacher’s edition also includes active classroom strategies, which are low-prep, high impact ways to add inquiry into your classroom.
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How do I sign up for an Economics digital demo?
Economics digital courseware on Savvas Realize® includes robust digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. Program-specific resources, flexible agnostic resources, and assessments are available in one location for easy lesson planning and presentation. Click here to sign up for a demo.