Virginia Commonwealth University Center for Economic Education
Aug 05, 2025 - Aug 06, 2025
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration Deadline: August 3, 2025
VCU, Snead Hall
301 W. Main St.
Richmond, Virginia 23284-4000
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Grade Level: High School
Potential Recertification Credits: 20
Economics is the study of how people make choices, and history is the result of choices. This institute prepares world history teachers through the unique lens of the choices that people, great and small, made throughout history. In this way it helps students reflect on the way that their own choices shape their lives and the histories around them.
This institute features veteran world history teachers who will make use of active virtual and in-person lesson plans that are fun and accessible. All material addresses the Virginia SOL for World History I and II. Participants will be prepared to teach the effects of trade across regions, the effects of economic interest groups, the incentives of emperors, and the role of uncertainty throughout history. Participants receive a copy of Focus: Middle School World History, a lesson plan book filled with 29 active-learning and inquiry-based lessons, along with electronic materials. Lesson titles include: “The Silk Road,” “Economic Systems of the Incas and Aztecs,” “Mansa Musa, Inflation Then and Now,” “Wages and the Black Death,” and “The Paper Money of the Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties.”
Fee: NO CHARGE
Additional Information:
This institute will have two in-person days and six hours of asynchronous online work.
Instructor: Stephen Day, with guest presenters
Contact Person:
Stephen Day
Center for Economic Education
Virginia Commonwealth University
(804) 828-1628
shday@vcu.edu
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