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Teaching Elementary Economics with Saving the Day

March 26, 2024

Target grades 2-4 (all are welcome)

“Saving the Day: Using Children’s Literature to Teach Human Capital, Public Goods, and Costs & Benefits” is a teaching unit containing lessons developed by three award-winning economic educators. Each lesson connects to the book Saving the Day: Garrett Morgan’s Life-Saving Invention of the Traffic Signal and focuses on a different economic concept and supports state and national standards of learning.

Current K-5 classroom teachers will receive a complimentary copy of the featured text.

  • For questions regarding this resource, please contact Office of Economic Education (OEE).
  • Contact Name: Michela Wilson
  • Email Address: michelawilson@arizona.edu