The 6th Annual Economic Education Spring Conference

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See a Complete
Series Introduction

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Guest Speaker:
TBA

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Free Materials: A
$94 Value!
Includes:
Free Curriculum ($28 Value)

Student Materials ($14 Value)
Parent's Guide ($12 Value)
CD ($40 Value)

Available to first 30 registrants
in each workshop!

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Graduate Credit
Available

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Registration 4:30
Teacher Workshops
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Networking
6:30 - 7:15 p.m.

Special Guest
Jayme Caughron
NASDAQ Award
Winner 2003

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Teachers: Display
Your Projects!

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Banquet
7:15 - 9:00 p.m.
Catered by
Hereford House Restaurant

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Co-Sponsored by:

UMKC Center
for Economic Education
Gayle Voyles, Center Director
Nicolas Pologeorgis,
Associate Director

UMKC Operation Outreach
Patricia Palmer, Director

The Missouri Council on Economic Education
Stan Mengel, President/CEO
Mark Gravenstein, Program Director
Janine Hogan, Executive Assistant

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Register Online!

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Registration may also
be fax'd to 816-235-2651.

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Registration Deadline
Friday,
 February 27, 2004

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This page updated
01/19/2004.

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Foundations for Economic Literacy: 
Reading, Math and Social Studies

You are invited to attend the 4th Annual Economic Education Spring Conference (12278 bytes)

Financial Fitness for Life Workshops (27270 bytes)

Register Now
to Attend!

Wednesday,
March 4, 2004
4:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Hilton Garden Inn
19677 East Jackson Drive, Independence, MO 64057

Map to Hilton

Curriculum for Grades K-2 (4312 bytes)Pocket Power
(Grades K-2)
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Registration for this workshop is closed! However, if you complete the registration form, you will be placed on a waiting list. Thank you!

Instructors: Gayle Voyles & Kim Walter

Includes 16 creative lessons with background information, preparation material, student activities, and assessments to promote active learning. An illustrated storybook highlights topics in each lesson.

Teach students:
• Why education pays
• Why saving makes us wait but provides
   more opportunity
• How advertising affects spending
• What is credit
• How to manage money

Registration Deadline: Friday, March 15, 2002

Registration for this workshop is closed! However, if you complete the registration form, you will be placed on a waiting list. Thank you!

Steps to Financial Fitness (Grades 3-5)
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Registration for this workshop is closed! However, if you complete the registration form, you will be placed on a waiting list. Thank you!

Instructors: Cinthia Barnes & Robin Kelly

15 action oriented lessons where students make strategic decisions about earning an income, saving and spending money, using credit, and budgeting. A student activities packet is also available to accompany the set of lessons.

Registration Deadline: Friday, March 15, 2002

Sample activities include:
• Analyzing why the pay for various jobs is
  different
• Differentiating between fact and opinion on
  advertisements
• Role playing the buying of goods and
  services with different methods of payment
• Analyzing a fable to determine the
  opportunity cost for not saving
• Singing in a chorus about the credit
  worthiness of different individuals

Registration for this workshop is closed! However, if you complete the registration form, you will be placed on a waiting list. Thank you!

Curriculum for Grades 6-8 (4737 bytes)Shaping Up Your Financial Future (Grades 6-8)
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Registration for this workshop is closed! However, if you complete the registration form, you will be placed on a waiting list. Thank you!

Instructor: Patty Palmer

Students learn how education can improve productivity, why income levels differ, how to set goals, the effect of simple vs. compound interest, and how inflation affects purchase decisions.

Registration Deadline: Friday, March 15, 2002

17 action-oriented lessons designed to educate students in multiple personal finance topics including:

• Relating education to income and
  standard of living
• Cost of spending vs. saving
• Setting financial goals
• How taxes affect consumers
• Developing and managing a budget

Registration for this workshop is closed! However, if you complete the registration form, you will be placed on a waiting list. Thank you!

Bringing Home the Gold... Curriculum for Grades 9-12 Bringing Home the Gold
(Grades 9-12)
Notice! (861 bytes)Registration for this workshop is closed! However, if you complete the registration form, you will be placed on a waiting list. Thank you!

Instructors: Nicolas Pologeorgis & Mark Gravenstein

All lessons are tied to standards for economics and personal finance literacy and include background information, preparation materials, student activities, and assessments. A Web site provides additional ideas to help reinforce lessons through various disciplines.

This workshop includes 22 lessons covering:

• What it takes to become a millionaire
• How to make a job rather than take a job
• The relationship between risk and return
• Why there is no free lunch
• Using a computer to understand the cost
  of interest
• Computerized budget planning
• Marketplace scams and swindles

Registration for this workshop is closed! However, if you complete the registration form, you will be placed on a waiting list. Thank you!

Space is limited to the first 120 teachers to register!
For more information, call (816) 235-2655 or (800) 746-7432 or email us.

Operation Outreach for the Missouri Council on Economic Education (6159 bytes)

Operation Outreach in association with
the Missouri Council on Economic Education.

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