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Print Resources


Below is a sampling of print resources available from the Stavros Center. Educators in the USF service area* may request free copies of print materials by sending an e-mail request to the Stavros Center. Please include your name, school address, and phone number.

*Florida counties of Hillsborough, Pinellas, Hernando, Pasco, Polk, Hardee, Manatee, Sarasota, DeSoto, Highlands.

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Bright Ideas

Bright Ideas is a resource manual for teaching innovation and entrepreneurship to high school students. Bright Ideas focuses on the entrepreneurial elements of a free market system.

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Critical Thinking Activities in Economic Education

Critical Thinking Activities in Economic Education is a curriculum guide linking economic concepts with six critical thinking skills. The curriculum guide promotes problem solving skills, decision making skills, creative thinking, lifelong learning, reasoning, and visualization through economic concepts in math, reading, and writing. Critical Thinking Activities in Economic Education activities are appropriate for middle school students.

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Enterprise for the Intermediate Grades

Enterprise for the Intermediate Grades is a real-life learning experience where students play an active part in the learning process. In Enterprise, students have a chance to create their own working enterprises. They create the business, make their own business decisions, and make a real profit or take a real loss in real dollars.

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People Who Built Tampa Bay

People Who Built Tampa Bay connects students to their community. This curriculum is based on information about outstanding business leaders highlighted in the Tampa Bay Business Hall of Fame program and the accompanying tabloid. The People Who Built Tampa Bay provides historical as well as current data about the resources, population, services, and enterprises in Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Manatee, and Sarasota counties. This timely and interesting curriculum also provides intermediate students with practice in skills necessary for Florida Writes!, FCAT, and Florida Sunshine State Standards.

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Personal Economics: A Blueprint for Life

Personal Economics: A Blueprint for Life is a curriculum appropriate for middle school through high school. These lesson plans and activities combine basic economic concepts and practical life skills such a decision making, goal setting, job training choices, budgeting, understanding taxes, saving, consumer credit, and investment.

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This Little Piggy Went to Market and other Tales of Economics

This Little Piggy Went to Market and other Tales of Economics is a unique resource guide for using children's literature to teach economic concepts to kindergarten through third grade students. This Little Piggy... is divided into fifteen lessons which include pre-teaching strategies and follow-up activities.

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This Little Piggy Went to Market and other Tales of Economics, Volume II

This Little Piggy Went to Market and other Tales of Economics, Volume II is a continuation of the successful This Little Piggy...Volume I. This Little Piggy... is divided into fifteen lessons appropriate for use with 3-5 students.

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Who Gets the Water?

Who Gets the Water is a resource guide designed to provide middle-grade students with background information on water and water issues coupled with basic economic concepts. The introduction of economics helps give students concepts critical to the understanding of various sides of the water debate. Applying knowledge and skills to real world problems also provides students the opportunity to practice participating in social and community action.

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