Education Week – Jessica Brown
“Can children’s literature be used to teach economics to elementary school students? Some think so. The Council for Economic Education calls it “sneak-onomics.”…Deborah Kozdras, is an instructor and chief creative officer at the Gus A. Stavros Center for Economic Education at the University of South Florida. She holds workshops to train teachers on the concept. (She actually doesn’t call it “sneak-onomics” herself but says the term is growing on her.) The idea basically boils down to teaching students decisionmaking skills and how to “think like an economist” by weighing things like costs and risks and benefits, she said. Kozdras started teaching this idea at the request of Florida elementary school teachers in her area who said that they just didn’t have enough hours in the school day to fit in lessons on social studies. “We wanted to look at how we can sneak in more,” she said.”(more)