Economics for Mississippi Grades 9-12
Economics for Mississippi helps students build an essential, life-long understanding of core economics principles. It brings a modern lens to social studies content based on the Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards (MS CCRS) for Social Studies and armors students with valuable critical thinking and inquiry skills that will help prepare them for college and career success.
- Helps prepare students to be college and career-ready.
- Features motivating, hands-on activities, interactive graphics, animations, videos, and more.
- Bridges time-tested best practices, curriculum standard expectations, and technology for 21st century learners.
Economics Solution for Mississippi
Economics for Mississippi is a flexible, differentiated, student-centered program with robust teacher support. It engages students by connecting headlines to students’ lives today.
Built for Mississippi
- Built for Today– Mississippi CCRS for Social Studies instruction prepares all students for success.
- Inspire Tomorrow–boost inquiry and active participation for every Mississippi student.
- Realize Results–easy-to-use digital resources spark meaningful learning.
Learning model enhances student understanding.
Students learn core economic principles through a learning model that reinforces personalization, critical thinking, analysis, and hands-on activities.
Digital and print course options support classroom flexibility and differentiation.
The Economics for Mississippi digital courseware on Savvas Realize® includes robust digital tools that give teachers the flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms.
Aligned with Mississippi standards and geared toward college readiness.
Economics for Mississippi bridges time-tested best practices, Mississippi standards expectations, and technology to help prepare students to be college and career-ready.
High School Economics Solution
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The Savvas Mastery System
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Next-Generation Learning
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Customizable and Accessible
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Print and Digital Content
Economics for Mississippi uses a research-tested 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.
Higher-level content powers next-generation social studies learning.
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Content Features
- Economics for Mississippi 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 economics content and assessments to reach all students.
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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
Robust teacher and student resources in digital or print.
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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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Student Edition
- Magazine-style layout to increase readability, with a 50/50 text- to-visual balance.
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Reading and Note Taking Study Guide
- Contains lesson summaries and opportunities for guided note-taking to encourage close-reading skills.
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Interactive Digital Course
- Hosted 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.
Teacher-friendly Savvas Realize LMS offers engaging content and time-saving tools.
Savvas Realize® brings our award-winning content to life in an exciting digital experience that students love. For teachers and admins, it includes valuable classroom-management tools like auto-rostering, single-sign-on, and available integrations with many top K-12 LMSs. Access to teacher and student editions of Realize® is free with the cost of the program.
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.
Make logging into your Realize dashboard an essential daily activity–just like checking your school email and Google Classroom accounts–to get a clear, organized path to your learning goals.
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 print and digital resources are available with Economics?
The program consists 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.
- Digital Course - the Economics digital courseware on Savvas Realize™ includes robust digital tools that give teachers the 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 for inquiry in social studies. You will find Quest Topic Inquiries, which contains project-based assessments 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 the 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. Contact your Account Manager for demo access.