Exploring Economics
Exploring Economics tackles money in the real world—past and present, personal and global—through a biblical lens that connects church history, daily choices, and economic policy in one clear, credit-worthy course.
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2026 Twelfth-Grade Curriculum Kit
Exploring Economics Curriculum Package
Your teen hears about inflation, recessions, taxes, markets, and "the economy" all the time—on the news, online, and probably during more than a few family conversations. Exploring Economics helps him understand what those terms actually mean and how they affect everyday life.
Designed as a Christian homeschool economics curriculum, this one-semester course explores economic principles through a Biblical worldview while connecting them to history, government, personal decision-making, and real-world events. Rather than drowning students in technical jargon, it focuses on helping them understand how economic choices shape families, businesses, communities, and nations.
The course includes 75 daily lessons divided into 15 manageable units. Students explore topics such as supply and demand, free markets, government policies, stewardship, economic systems, and the relationship between faith and economics. Along the way, they discover that economics isn't just about money—it's about the countless choices people make every day.
The companion reader, Making Choices, brings additional depth through writings from historians, economists, business leaders, and other influential thinkers. These readings help students see how economic ideas have shaped societies throughout history and continue to influence the world around them.
One of the course's strengths is its practicality. Teens quickly begin recognizing connections between the material and real life. Suddenly, headlines make more sense. Conversations about jobs, prices, taxes, or business decisions become easier to follow. Economics stops feeling like an abstract subject and starts feeling surprisingly relevant.
Students earn one-half high school credit in Economics upon completion of the course. Those who complete the optional literature assignments, essays, and Student Review Pack can also earn an additional one-half credit in English.
Whether your teen is headed for college, business ownership, the trades, or simply adulthood, Exploring Economics provides a valuable framework for understanding how people make choices, how economies function, and why those ideas matter long after the course is finished.
How to Use Exploring Economics Curriculum Package
- Plan on completing one unit each week if you're using Exploring Economics as a one-semester course. With 15 units and 75 lessons, the pacing is straightforward and easy to maintain.
- Prefer to spread the course across an entire school year? Simply complete two or three lessons each week. The flexible format makes it easy to fit into a variety of high school schedules.
- Follow the daily readings in Exploring Economics alongside the selections in Making Choices. Most students can work through the material independently, though many families enjoy discussing current events, economic principles, and real-world applications together.
- If your teen plans to earn the additional English credit, add the four recommended literature titles along with the optional Student Review Pack. The writing assignments, essays, and literary analysis activities provide a natural way to strengthen communication and critical-thinking skills while completing economics.
- Use the quizzes, reviews, and assessments if you want additional accountability or grading support. Prefer a discussion-based approach? The course works well that way too.
- One of the strengths of Exploring Economics is how quickly students begin connecting the lessons to everyday life. Conversations about inflation, taxes, jobs, housing costs, business decisions, and even the price of a gallon of milk suddenly make a lot more sense.
- Completing the core course earns one-half high school credit in Economics. Students who complete the literature and composition components can earn an additional one-half credit in English.
Whether your teen is college-bound, headed into the workforce, or simply preparing for adult life, Exploring Economics provides practical knowledge he'll encounter long after the final lesson is complete.
In the 2026 kits this course earns high school credit under more than one heading:
0.5 credits of Economics
History & Social Studies · 12th grade · Classic kits
0.5 credits of English
Language Arts · 12th grade · Classic kits
Earned with the literature and essay assignments.
- Exploring Economics
- Making Choices
- Student Review
- Quiz and Exam Book
- Guide for Parents and Answer Key
- Exploring Economics
- Making Choices
- Student Review
- Quiz and Exam Book
- Guide for Parents and Answer Key
Publisher: Notgrass
Author: Ray Notgrass
Age/Grade Recommendation: 14+/9th Grade+
Faith-Based: Yes
Copyright: 2016
Edition: 2nd Edition
Made in: USA
Exploring Economics
ISBN: 9781609990947
Consumable: No
Format: Hardcover
Making Choices
ISBN: 9781609990954
Consumable: No
Format: Hardcover
Student Review
ISBN: 9781609991050
Consumable: Yes
Format: Softcover
Quiz and Exam Book
ISBN: 9781609990961
Consumable: Yes
Format: Softcover
Guide for Parents and Answer Key
ISBN: 9781609990978
Consumable: No
Format: Softcover
Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about this product below:
Exploring Economics counts as half a credit of Economics on a high school transcript. It can also earn half a credit of English. That credit is earned with the literature and essay assignments. To turn its grade into a GPA, use our free homeschool GPA calculator: it works out each letter grade from your student's scores, figures the GPA by year and for all of high school, and prints a grade record for the transcript.
- September 27, 2023
My 12 year old loves this book.
ARACELI R.
Even though this is a high school book, my 7th grade boy developed an interest in economics and is loving learning thru this curriculum.
- March 12, 2020
Wonderful class
Kara J.
This book teaches real world topics that need to taught to kids. Love that literature books are part of the curriculum to earn credit.
- November 20, 2019
Perfect for high school
Chantelle G.
My teenager has loved all the Notgrass highschool texts. This one has the perfect amount of information for a teen to help him understand how our economy works. Basic ideas like supply and demand are brought to life with real world explanations.
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