MCEE Programs

The Michigan Council of Economic Education offers many programs for teachers and students. Click on a program title to view its description and download its brochure.

Michigan Stock Market Game™ (SMG)
An educational simulation that teaches about the stock markets, the American economic system, and the global economy. Students in grades 4-12 are responsible for developing and managing hypothetical investment portfolios worth $100,000. Over 1,000,000 Michigan students have participated since the beginning of the program in 1980. Visit the National Stock Market Game site.
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Michigan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Economics
This awards program recognizes teachers for excellence in teaching economics, entrepreneurship, and personal finance concepts in their classroom. The program acknowledges Michigan teachers who creatively integrate economic education into their classrooms, while fostering a continued sharing of successful teaching experiences in economics among teachers at every level.
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“A Picture is Worth a 1,000 Words” Poster Contest
Students in grades 1-8 illustrate in poster from one of the following economic concepts: scarcity, productive resources, opportunity cost, specialization, producers and consumers, goods and services. Each of twelve winners receives a $50 U.S. Savings Bond. Three will appear in a school year color calendar published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago<.
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Economics Challenge
Co-sponsored with NCEE>, Goldman Sachs, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago this program is an opportunity for teams of four high school students to demonstrate their knowledge on a broad array of economic topics and subjects. The Challenge is divided into two categories: Adam Smith for Advanced Placement Economics and David Ricardo for standard economics classes. The state champions will go to Chicago for the Regional Competition with an opportunity to qualify for the National Championship in New York City.
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Econ & Me
An award winning education series that teaches five basic economic concepts: scarcity, opportunity cost, consumption, production, and interdependence. The five 15-minues videos revolve around four children and their invisible friend, Jeremiah E. Connery (ECON). A teacherŐs guide who supports the videos for both students and teacher accompanies the program. These five concepts comprise the core of the Elementary Level Standards and Benchmarks.
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Virtual Economics CD-ROM
This CD-ROM functions like a knowledgeable computer, providing teaching strategies, contents, and definitions for anyone teaching economics. The Virtual Econ CD-ROM offers everything needed to teach economics or incorporate economic units into lesson plans for every even from Kindergarten through Grade 12. The Resource Library contains 140 documents and 20,000 pages of the newest and best instructional material. All are categorized for K-2, 5-8, and 9-12.
For more information about this program, check out the Virtual Economics page.
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Mini-Society
An experience-based program that teaches youngsters about economics, government, entrepreneurship, consumer issues, and responsibility. Mini-Society also incorporates math, literature, law, and citizenship. Students in grades 4-7 design and implement a working economic system in their classroom. MCEE and the Kauffmann Foundation offer workshops that train teachers to create a Mini-Society within their own classrooms. The Mini-Society is endorsed by the Michigan Council for the Social Studies and the Michigan Department of Education.
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Educator Associates
Economic educators who are enthusiastic about improving the way economics is taught in Michigan. These individuals work in the network of Regional Center for Economic Education and Professor Associates. EAŐs support educators by providing creative and effective teaching strategies. They conduct workshops introducing new approaches for teaching economic concepts and benchmarks.
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Developmental Econ Ed Partners (DEEP)
Helps schools set standards, train teachers, align curriculum, and evaluate results so that every student has the opportunity to leave twelfth grade with a basic level of economic and personal financial literacy. Through the statewide network of Centers for Economic Education, the Council offers professional development courses and workshops to enable teachers to assess and implement quality, standards-based economic education materials effectively in their classroom.

Current DEEP Districts

  • Bay City Schools
  • Bay Arenac ISD
  • Clio Area Schools
  • Davison Community Schools
  • Detroit Public Schools
  • Fr Marqueette Elementary School, Marquette
  • Fr Marquette Middle School, Marquette
  • Gogebic-Ontonagon ISD
  • Kearsley Community Schools
  • Lansing School District
  • Lenawee ISD
  • Livingston ESA
  • Macomb ISD
  • Marquette-Alger ISD
  • Marysville Public Schools
  • Midland Public Schools
  • St. Clair ISD
  • St. Francis of Assisi (Ann Arbor)
  • Van Dyke Public Schools
  • Utica Community Schools

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KidsEcon Posters
KidsEcon Posters is a joint curriculum project of the Michigan Council on Economic Education and Indiana Council on Economic Education. The goal of this project is to help K-8 students understand the exciting economic world around them- making them more effective producers, consumers, savers, investors, and voting citizens. Each poster concept is linked to the appropriate National Content Standard in Economics. In addition the illustrated economic concepts are correlated to the Michigan Social Studies Standards & Benchmarks, Strand IV Economic Perspective. For each poster there is a Teacher Guide, which includes a more detailed explanation of the concept, teaching ideas, and a list of several childrenŐs literature books that teach the concept.
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6 Core Principles Poster
The Michigan Council on Economic Education and Muskegon Area Intermediate School District developed the 6 Core Economic Principles Poster to represent six powerful ideas that explain the economic behavior of people. These six ideas will introduce students to a variety of economic concepts, which they will be able to apply to history, geography, government, civic, as well as psychology. The 6 Core Economic Principles Poster is closely aligned with the Content Strand, Standards, and Benchmarks of the Michigan Curriculum Framework for Social Studies and the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economicsof the National Council on Economic Education.
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