The Purdue Center for Economic Education (PCEE) supports teachers in their mission to bring high-quality economic education and literacy to K-12 students. We provide teachers with materials, curriculum, and programming so they can best promote financial literacy, career development, and entrepreneurship with their students.
There is typically no fee to attend PCEE programs, and participating teachers often receive ready-to-use curriculum materials.
PCEE is pleased to share entry details and prize information for our new Economics Concepts Poster Series art contest!
Area K-12 students are encouraged to create an original work of art on an 8.5 x 11-inch sheet of unlined, white paper that illustrates an economic concept. Students must submit their artwork and an entry form by March 3, 2025. Winners will have their creation featured on PCEE notecards, calendars, t-shirts and more, and the center will make a grant to the classroom teacher listed on the winning student’s entry form.
Find a list of economic concepts, and their definitions, here.
Students: Submit your artwork and entry form by March 3, 2025! Find the form and full contest rules and prize information below.
CONTEST RULES & PRIZE INFORMATION ENTRY FORM
The center's Dennis J. Weidenaar Classroom Business Enterprise (CBE) program gives K-8 students the opportunity to operate a real money business in their classrooms. Students decide what good or service to produce, gather the necessary productive resources, then market, produce, and sell their product.
Discover More
These training workshops for K-12 teachers are taught by practicing teachers and occur in after-school settings. All workshops are practical and provide teachers with curriculum ideas and teaching strategies that they can immediately use with their students.
Participants may earn PGPs (Professional Growth Points).
EconVersations is a series of after-school economic and financial education programs for secondary teachers and administrators, grades 7-12. Programs revolve around a specific topic or content area with the goal of increasing teacher knowledge and providing teachers with cutting-edge curriculum ideas for sharing that knowledge with their students.
EconVersations provides a stimulating environment for teachers to interact and share curriculum ideas, and typically includes an expert guest speaker and the demonstration of related lesson plans and teacher resources by a PCEE staff member or a practicing teacher.
We welcome suggestions for future program topics.
Staff from our center are often available to visit schools in Tippecanoe and surrounding counties to demonstrate effective economics lessons and to provide consulting services. These teaching demonstrations show how economics and personal finance can be taught, even in the younger grades. Center staff can also provide consulting services on how to implement economics and financial education across the curriculum.
We are eager to assist K-12 teachers in their efforts to give students the best economic education.
