Teachers taught Playful Economics at Pittsburg State
Once a gooey way for young children to while away idle hours, Play Dough is making a comeback in the classroom as an educational tool. Area elementary, middle and high school teachers on Tuesday morning began learning how to utilize the iconic goo to enhance lessons in economics and vocabulary.
More than 30 teachers gathered in Russ Hall listened to curriculum and instruction professor Kenny McDougle explain Playful Economics, a program that has integrated Play Dough into 15 lessons. According to the Council for Economic Education, which publishes it, the program "provides concrete experiences that promote learning."
Lessons include goods and services, production, trade, money, savings and investment and the costs and benefits, among others. It also means to connect these lessons to the teachers chose books for their classes.
McDougle said school districts are increasingly placing greater emphasis on economic education to children at an age younger.
"It helps them get an early start on financial literacy," said McDougle. "Children who grow up do not have much knowledge about financial matters. Hope they grow better able to make sound financial decisions.And that's what the economy is making the right decisions based on limited resources. "
The dough will be used in lessons as a way to engage students with examples of topics they are learning. For example, it can be modeled in an example of a consumer good - widget or in the jargon of the economy - such as tea. Or, as teachers learned, it can be used to create an assembly line where teams compete to produce the most "hamburgers" in a period of 10 minutes.
"They can also exchange their goods or barter them," McDougle said. "It may or may not happen. If they can't trade it, they could make something else or find someone else who wants what they have. They also can learn to use money, which makes transactions much easier."
Patty Yoakum, a middle school language arts teacher at St. Patrick Catholic School in Parsons, said the value of the lessons is apparent.
"I don't think we were prepared much for economics much, even in college," Yoakum said. "And look at our economy. Kids need to be better educated about this."
Diane Harper, a Title I teacher at St. Paul Elementary School, said she would like to see hands-on lessons developed for kids. The traditional model of teaching, she said, lets many students fall through the cracks.
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