Economic Foundations in U.S. Civics

Learn how to bring America’s constitutional design to life with powerful economic reasoning tools, engaging simulations, and classroom-ready lessons.

This new Virtual One Day topic is designed to equip teachers with the economic reasoning tools to bring America’s constitutional design to life in the classroom. Participants learn how to guide their students through signature simulations – the Congressional Trading Floor and the Presidential Decision Matrix – gaining both content knowledge and facilitation confidence along the way. Teachers leave with ready-to-use lesson materials, debrief strategies, and a reusable analytical framework that helps students evaluate any government action through the lens of incentives, trade-offs, and marginal thinking. This program is designed for educators across both economics and civics disciplines, reflecting the intentional integration of constitutional principles and economic reasoning at the heart of the curriculum.

One Day Seminars qualify for one graduate hour credit in economics from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs for an additional fee.