Happy EconEdMonth! Celebrate economics all month long by visiting EconEdMonth.org

Grade 3-5, 6-8
,
On-Demand Webinar

Women Making Choices: Athletes, Artists, and Activists

Time: 60 mins,
Presenter: Lynne Stover
Teacher Version
Objective Standards Description Resources
Print

Objective

In this webinar teachers will:

  • Celebrate Woman’s History Month by learning about the choices made by women athletes, artists, and activists. [Lucile Godbold, Serena Williams, Aretha Franklin, Maya Lin, Rosa Parks, Dolores Huerta.]
  • Consider the benefits of using children’s literature to teach in the content areas.
  • Review the economic concepts of decision-making, choices, human capital, and incentives.
  • Consider a cost/benefit grid as applied to an important decision.
  • Construct a PACED decision-making grid based on a specific event.
  • Discover methods for teaching the featured concepts using lessons created for the upper elementary and middle school classrooms.

Standards

State Standards

Concepts

Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Human Capital, Incentives

This video is available to view for EconEdLink members only.

Description

Some of the choices made by the women featured in this session were well-planned, others were spontaneous. However, all these decisions defined who they were and their historical influence. Would their life stories have been different if they had completed a cost and benefit analysis or filled out a PACED decision-making grid? This session includes classroom ready lessons, enrichment activities, supporting material resources, and a topical bibliography. The titles featured are “Long-Armed Ludy and the First Women’s Olympics” by Jean Patrick, “Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams” by Howard Brant, “May Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines” by Jeanne Walker, “RESPECT: Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul” by Carole Boston Weatherford, “Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers” by Sarah Warren, and “Rosa” by Nikki Giovanni.

Resources

 

Subjects:

Related Resources

Content Partner

Grades 6-8

Dinner Discussions at Maggie Walker's House

Students study historic objects, photographs and documents, research influential members of the African American community and role-play a dinner party...
Key Concepts: Banking, Decision Making, Entrepreneurship…
3 class periods
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Can You Allocate Ethically?

In Lesson #4 from the Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues curriculum, students work in groups to analyze allocation methods, apply...
Key Concepts: Allocation, Decision Making, Incentives…
45 mins
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Does Self-Interest Prevent Economic Justice?

In Lesson #7 0f the Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues curriculum, students explore basic ideas of justice by examing government...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incentives, Veil of Ignorance
60 mins
Lesson