Florida Economics Interactive
Florida Economics Interactive helps students build an essential, life-long understanding of core economics principles. It brings a modern lens to social studies content based on the Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) and armors students with valuable critical thinking and inquiry skills that will help prepare them for college and career success.
- Features motivating, hands-on activities, interactive graphics, animations, videos, and more.
- Bridges time-tested best practices, curriculum standard expectations, and technology for 21st century learners.
- Helps prepare students to be college and career-ready.
High School Economics for Florida
Florida Economics Interactive is a flexible, differentiated, student-centered program with robust teacher support. It engages students by connecting headlines to students’ lives today.
Built for Florida
Built-in Florida NGSSS instruction boosts inquiry and active participation to prepare all students for success.
Learning model enhances student understanding.
Students learn core economic principles through a learning model that reinforces personalization, critical thinking, analysis, and hands-on activities.
Digital and print course options support classroom flexibility and differentiation.
The Florida Economics Interactive digital courseware on Savvas Realize® includes robust digital tools that give teachers the flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms.
Aligned with standards and geared toward college readiness.
Florida Economics Interactive bridges time-tested best practices, Florida standards expectations, and technology to help prepare students to be college and career-ready.
High School Economics Program
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Florida Economics Interactive uses a research-tested learning model
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Next-Generation Learning
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Customizable and Accessible
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Print and Digital Content
The Savvas Mastery System
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ConnectStudents make learning personal as they connect to content through a story and activate their prior knowledge, personal experiences, and perspectives.
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InvestigateStudents actively learn, investigate, and acquire key content knowledge through a variety of print and digital components.
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SynthesizeStudents extend their understanding by applying what they just learned in a quick recap and "pull-it-all-together" exercise before they move on to the next lesson.
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DemonstrateStudents demonstrate their understanding through a variety of authentic, formative, and summative assessments.
Higher-level content powers next-generation social studies learning.
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Content Features
- Florida Economics Interactive was created in collaboration with educators, social studies experts, and students.
- Higher-level content enables students to access complex text, acquire core content knowledge, and tackle rigorous questions
- Inquiry-focused Projects, Civic Discussions, and Document Analysis activities develop content and skills mastery in preparation for real-world challenges.
- Essential questions and stories increase long-term understanding and learning retention.
Customizable economics content and assessments to reach all students.
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Resources
Teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. Resources include:
- Lesson summary videos
- Interactive Primary Sources
- Interactive Digital Activities
- Quest Topic Inquiry projects
Robust teacher and student resources in digital or print.
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Florida Teacher’s Edition
- Wrap-around pages that provide direct instruction and teaching suggestions to engage students.
- Planning pages for each topic and lesson make implementation and pacing easy for teachers.
- Active Classroom Strategies, ELL support, and more are available at point of use.
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Florida Student Edition
- Magazine-style layout to increase readability, with a 50/50 text- to-visual balance.
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Florida Reading and Note Taking Study Guide
- Contains lesson summaries and opportunities for guided note-taking to encourage close-reading skills.
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Florida Interactive Digital Course
- Hosted on Savvas Realize®, includes robust digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments.
Engaging content and time-saving classroom-management tools come together in the teacher-friendly Savvas Realize® LMS, included with your program.
Savvas Realize® brings our award-winning content to life in an exciting digital experience that students love. For teachers and admins, it includes valuable classroom-management tools like auto-rostering, single-sign-on, and available integrations with many top K-12 LMSs. Access to teacher and student editions of Realize is free with the cost of the program.
Preview your week ahead, adjust your daily lesson plans, review student and class progress, build and share lessons with your own content, or easily search for differentiated resources to inspire more “lightbulb” moments for your students. Realize’s single-sign-on platform makes it all easy and manageable.
Make logging into your Realize dashboard an essential daily activity–just like checking your school email and Google Classroom accounts–to get a clear, organized path to your learning goals.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is Florida Economics Interactive?Florida Economics Interactive for grades 9-12 is a print and digital student-centered program with robust teacher support. Florida Economics focuses on engaging students by connecting headlines to students’ lives today, a foundation of inquiry-based learning, engaging digital activities, and more.
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What print and digital resources are available with Florida Economics Interactive?
The program is made up of the following components:
- Florida Student Edition - available in digital or print, the foundational student edition has a magazine-style layout to increase readability with a 50/50 text to visual balance.
- Florida Teacher’s Edition - available in digital or print, the Teacher’s Edition includes wrap-around pages that provide direct instruction and teaching suggestions to engage students. Planning pages for each topic and lesson make implementation and pacing easy for teachers. Active Classroom Strategies, ELL support, and more are available at point of use.
- Florida Digital Course - the Economics digital courseware on Savvas Realize™ includes robust digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Teachers can also customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. Resources include:
- Lesson summary videos
- Interactive Primary Sources
- Interactive Digital Activities
- Quest Topic Inquiry projects
- Reading and Notetaking Study Guide Workbook – Available in digital and print, this workbook contains lesson summaries and opportunities for guided note taking to encourage close reading skills.
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Is Florida Economics Interactive inquiry-based?
Florida Economics Interactive is built for inquiry in social studies. You will find Quest Topic Inquiries, which contains project-based assessments such as civic discussion, document-based writing, or a team project.
The teacher’s edition also includes active classroom strategies, which are low-prep, high impact ways to add inquiry into your classroom. -
How do I sign up for a Florida Economics Interactive digital demo?
Florida Economics Interactive digital courseware on Savvas Realize® includes robust digital tools that give teachers flexibility to use a digital, print, or blended format in their classrooms. Teachers can customize the program to rearrange content, upload their own content, add links to online media, and edit resources and assessments. Program-specific resources, flexible agnostic resources, and assessments are available in one location for easy lesson planning and presentation. Contact your Account Manager for demo access.
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