The United States Economy: Read Along or Enhanced eBook

The United States Economy: Read Along or Enhanced eBook
Author: Alex Dalenberg
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1087655293

The U.S. economy affects you every day. How does it work? Learn about this complex system with this social studies book that piques students’ curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include a 1920s advertisement and a 1943 image of Americans lining up for ration books. This 32-page book includes text features that help students increase reading comprehension and their understanding of the subject. Packed with interesting facts, sidebars, and essential vocabulary, this book is perfect for reports or projects.

Our Fair Share

Our Fair Share
Author: Brian C. Johnson
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1506470750

America's economy does not currently live up to our country's core values. We are a nation founded on the ideals of coming together across differences to forge a common future. Yet over the past fifty years, our economy has been pulling us apart at unprecedented rates. By allowing top income earners and the wealthiest Americans to hoard wealth like almost never before, we belie what makes our country great. This is a threat to our well-being, our democracy, and our values. Brian C. Johnson combines accessible scholarship on wealth and income inequality in America with deeply personal accounts of six Americans of diverse backgrounds who are each wrestling with what it means to survive and thrive in this new economic world. In so doing, he offers a solution that is as visionary as it is practical. Dubbed the Citizen Dividend, this revolutionary model assumes that economic growth is built off of the wealth we have created together as a country, and together we all reap its benefits. In Our Fair Share, Johnson lays the groundwork for implementing this solution, detailing what the Citizen Dividend is, offering examples of similar existing models, outlining the benefits of such systems, tackling some of the common concerns that arise, and offering a path toward making it a reality. Ultimately, Our Fair Share calls on each of us to claim what is uniquely American, building a common future that embraces and celebrates our differences. This is our revolutionary inheritance. May we all benefit from it.

Industrializing the United States: Read Along or Enhanced eBook

Industrializing the United States: Read Along or Enhanced eBook
Author: Heather Price-Wright
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1087655188

Dive deep into your exploration of history with this social studies book that piques students’ curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. This book focuses on the 2nd Industrial Revolution in the U.S. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include images of children factory workers, firefighters at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York City circa 1900, an Underwood Typewriter ad, political cartoons, and many more. This 32-page book includes text features that help students increase reading comprehension and their understanding of the subject. Packed with interesting facts, sidebars, and essential vocabulary, this book is perfect for reports or projects.

Immigrating to America: Read Along or Enhanced eBook

Immigrating to America: Read Along or Enhanced eBook
Author: Michelle R. Prather
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1087655196

This engaging primary source book dives into history to explore immigration during the twentieth century. Learn about the journey millions of immigrants faced trying to seek freedom and better lives in the United States. These people helped shape the country’s languages, traditions, politics, and economy. This book builds content knowledge across multiple social studies disciplines. The text features include a Reader’s Guide, side bars, table of contents, glossary, and index to increase comprehension and academic vocabulary. The Your Turn! activity extends learning and challenges students to use higher-order thinking skills. The leveled text accommodates below-level, above-level, and English language learners. This book is perfect for projects and reports and great for homeschool, learning at-home, or classroom libraries. Aligns to state standards and readies students for college and career. Learn about Ellis Island, Angel Island, and the significance of the Statue of Liberty. The engaging photos, interesting primary sources, and fascinating side bars will keep students reading cover-to-cover.

Follow That Dollar: Read Along or Enhanced eBook

Follow That Dollar: Read Along or Enhanced eBook
Author: Dona Herweck Rice
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1087628059

Learn about the economy and how money is spent with this nonfiction book. Perfect for young readers, the exciting book follows the journey of a single dollar and includes a fiction piece related to the topic, a glossary, a civics project, useful text features, and engaging sidebars. This 28-page full-color book tracks one dollar as it is spent and travels from person to person or place to place. It also covers important economics topics in an easy-to-follow way, and includes an extension activity for grade 2. Perfect for the classroom, at-home learning, or homeschool, to explore taxes, tips, and other key economic concepts.

Economics in Colorado: Read Along or Enhanced eBook

Economics in Colorado: Read Along or Enhanced eBook
Author: Joe Rhatigan
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1087648424

From fur traders to miners to wind power inventors, learn how Colorado’s economy has changed through history. This engaging social studies book includes four chapters focusing on Colorado, covering economic incentives, the economy, financial literacy, and Fannie Mae Duncan. It includes a glossary, extension activity, guided reading questions, and other exciting features.Economics in Colorado explains basic economic principles such as incentives and disincentives, supply and demand, opportunity costs, investments, profits, and more. This book not only provides meaningful connections to students’ lives, but it also crafts a fascinating account of Colorado’s diverse economy.

West Africa: Read Along or Enhanced eBook

West Africa: Read Along or Enhanced eBook
Author: Ben Nussbaum
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1087688825

Dive into the amazing history and stunning geography of West Africa! This social studies book details the story of West Africa’s past and the changes happening in the present. From deserts to savannas to rain forests, West Africa offers a fascinating landscape. This teacher-approved book provides students with opportunities to understand the lives of people from West Africa, including the history of indigenous peoples in the region. The book covers the geography, history, economics, and civics of the 16 countries that make up West Africa in an easy-to-use way. With a glossary and index, essential discussion questions, and other meaningful features, this book brings the wonders of West Africa to life for students.

Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2010-10-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0393077071

An incisive look at the global economic crisis, our flawed response, and the implications for the world’s future prosperity. The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government policy and unscrupulous personal and corporate behavior in the United States created the current financial meltdown, which was exported across the globe with devastating consequences. The crisis has sparked an essential debate about America’s economic missteps, the soundness of this country’s economy, and even the appropriate shape of a capitalist system. Few are more qualified to comment during this turbulent time than Joseph E. Stiglitz. Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, Stiglitz is “an insanely great economist, in ways you can’t really appreciate unless you’re deep into the field” (Paul Krugman, New York Times). In Freefall, Stiglitz traces the origins of the Great Recession, eschewing easy answers and demolishing the contention that America needs more billion-dollar bailouts and free passes to those “too big to fail,” while also outlining the alternatives and revealing that even now there are choices ahead that can make a difference. The system is broken, and we can only fix it by examining the underlying theories that have led us into this new “bubble capitalism.” Ranging across a host of topics that bear on the crisis, Stiglitz argues convincingly for a restoration of the balance between government and markets. America as a nation faces huge challenges—in health care, energy, the environment, education, and manufacturing—and Stiglitz penetratingly addresses each in light of the newly emerging global economic order. An ongoing war of ideas over the most effective type of capitalist system, as well as a rebalancing of global economic power, is shaping that order. The battle may finally give the lie to theories of a “rational” market or to the view that America’s global economic dominance is inevitable and unassailable. For anyone watching with indignation while a reckless Wall Street destroyed homes, educations, and jobs; while the government took half-steps hoping for a “just-enough” recovery; and while bankers fell all over themselves claiming not to have seen what was coming, then sought government bailouts while resisting regulation that would make future crises less likely, Freefall offers a clear accounting of why so many Americans feel disillusioned today and how we can realize a prosperous economy and a moral society for the future.

Progressive Era Leaders: Read Along or Enhanced eBook

Progressive Era Leaders: Read Along or Enhanced eBook
Author: Monika Davies
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 108765520X

Dive into history and explore the Progressive Era, a time of real change for the United States. Discover the changes inspirational men and women were able to make for better work conditions, women’s rights, and breaking up monopolies. The change makers were Presidents, writers, reformers, and suffragists, all working hard to make the United States better.This book builds content knowledge across multiple social studies disciplines. The text features include a Reader’s Guide, side bars, table of contents, glossary, and index to increase comprehension and academic vocabulary. The Your Turn! activity extends learning and challenges students to use higher-order thinking skills. The leveled text accommodates below-level, above-level, and English language learners. This book is perfect for projects and reports and great for homeschool, learning at-home, or classroom libraries. Aligns to state standards and readies students for college and career.Learn about the leaders with powerful voices and willing to stand up for what they knew was right. The engaging photos, interesting primary sources, and fascinating side bars will keep students reading cover-to-cover.

Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator: Read Along or Enhanced eBook

Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator: Read Along or Enhanced eBook
Author: Heather E. Schwartz
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1087655277

Dive deep into your study of US presidents with this biography of Ronald Reagan that piques students’ curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. This 32-page social studies book includes text features that help students increase reading comprehension and their understanding of the subject. Packed with interesting facts, sidebars, and essential vocabulary, this book is perfect for reports or projects.