Fans of the Tuttle Twins will
appreciate economic lessons designed to teach children of all ages about the
free market. Each book in the Free Market Rules curriculum series has 10 units with 4 lessons each. Completing all 3
results in 120 lessons for the year, potentially being used as a high school
elective credit. Lessons include an introduction to concepts for the
parents, activities for younger and older children, family discussion prompts,
and optional material to dig deeper into a topic. Young learners can
understand simple questions while older students can dig deeper into the
repercussions of every scenario.
Each unit takes 4 weeks to complete. Units
center around a thought-provoking question: Do you really need that? What
makes something useful? Why can’t you always get what you want? These are
just the first 3 units. Later units discuss trade, money, demand, products,
banks, monopolies, taxes, Keynesianism, etc. Final units bring you around to
asking: What’s the best economic system? or How can we use economics? Each
unit has consumable student pages as well as a discussion guide for
parents/teachers. You can try out one unit and see if they are a good fit for
your family or order all 3 in a set! This is not the sort of course that needs
an answer key. See the table of contents for each book to show specific
discussion topics.
