Thinkwell's Honors Economics
Thinkwell’s Honors Economics delivers college-level content with high school clarity—teaching micro and macroeconomics through video lessons, interactive practice, and a 36-week plan built for independent, transcript-ready learning.
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2026 Twelfth-Grade Curriculum Kit
Thinkwell's Honors Economics
Thinkwell's Honors Economics provides a comprehensive introduction to both microeconomics and macroeconomics through video instruction, interactive practice, and built-in assessment tools. Taught by Dr. Steven Tomlinson, this full-credit high school course helps students understand the economic principles that influence businesses, governments, markets, and everyday financial decisions.
More than 245 video lessons guide students through topics such as supply and demand, market structures, inflation, fiscal policy, monetary policy, economic growth, international trade, and personal decision-making. Clear explanations and real-world examples help students connect economic theory to current events and everyday life.
Interactive exercises provide immediate feedback and regular opportunities for practice and review. The course also includes chapter tests, practice tests, a midterm exam, and a final exam to help students monitor progress and strengthen mastery throughout the year.
A built-in 36-week lesson plan provides a clear path through the course while still allowing families the flexibility to adjust the pace when needed. Printable illustrated notes support retention and review, and automatic grading simplifies record-keeping for parents.
The 12-month subscription includes progress tracking and grade reporting, making it easy for students to work independently while allowing parents to monitor performance as needed.
Honors Economics is commonly counted as one full high school economics credit. For students preparing for college, business, finance, public policy, or simply a better understanding of how the world works, Thinkwell's Honors Economics provides a strong foundation in economic thinking and analysis.
See the lesson plan for this course and browse all that it has to offer.
How to Use Thinkwell Economics
- Activate your subscription when you're ready to begin. Your 12 months of access start upon activation, allowing you to fit the course into your homeschool schedule.
- Follow the built-in 36-week lesson plan and work through the course in sequence. The structured schedule breaks the material into manageable daily assignments while ensuring all lessons, exercises, and assessments are completed throughout the year.
- Watch the video lessons and take notes as you go. More than 245 lessons guide students through both microeconomics and macroeconomics, building understanding one concept at a time.
- Complete the interactive exercises after each lesson. Immediate feedback helps students identify mistakes, strengthen understanding, and develop mastery before moving on.
- Use the chapter tests, practice tests, midterm exam, and final exam to monitor progress. These built-in assessments provide regular opportunities for review and help identify areas that may need additional attention.
- Take advantage of the course resources. Printable illustrated notes, automatic grading, and progress tracking simplify record-keeping while providing valuable support throughout the year.
- Parents can access grade reports and performance data at any time, making it easy to monitor progress without additional grading or lesson planning.
By the end of the course, your teen will have completed a full high school economics credit and developed a stronger understanding of the economic principles that shape businesses, governments, markets, and everyday financial decisions.
In the 2026 kits this course earns high school credit:
1 credit of Economics
History & Social Studies · 12th grade · Non-Religious kits
Thinkwell's Honors Economics is a college-level combination of our Microeconomics and Macroeconomics courses; nothing is left out, so it's a great value. Both of those courses are generally taught in one semester each. Watch a sample video and you'll see that Steven Tomlinson is a gifted professor with an ability to make economics clear and relevant. No textbook required!
The Printed Notes (optional) are the Honors Economics course notes from the Online Subscription printed in color, on-the-go format.
What you get
Publisher's Information
Publisher: Thinkwell
Professor: Steven Tomlinson
Faith-Based: No
Subscription Info: 12-month, online subscription to the complete Honors Economics course
System Requirements: It is an online course, so you will need a device with internet access
Lessons/Projects: 245+ course lessons with streaming videos
Format: Online streaming
2. Understanding Markets
3. Consumer Choice and Household Behavior
4. Production and Costs
5. Perfect Competition
6. Other Market Models
7. Resource Markets
8. Market Failures
9. Evaluating Market Outcomes
10. Macroeconomic Measurements
11. Economic Fluctuations: Unemployment and Inflation
12. The Aggregate Expenditures Model
13. Money: Banking, Spending, Saving, and Investing
14. Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply Model
15. Monetary and Fiscal Policy
16. Productivity and Growth
17. International Focus
Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about this product below:
Your student watches a 5-10 minute online video lesson, completes the automatically graded exercises for the topic with instant correct-answer feedback, then moves on to the next lesson! The courses are self-paced, or you can use the daily lesson plans. Just like a textbook, you can choose where to start and end, or follow the entire course.
Yes, Thinkwell's Honors Economics is a college course and is also taught in high school. In college, it is frequently a two-semester course called Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. The main difference between college Economics and high school Economics is the depth of topic coverage and the pace. Thnkwell’s Honors Economics is simply a combination of our Honors Microeconomics and Honors Macroeconomics courses.
The pace of your course is up to you, but most students will schedule two semesters.
It starts when you're ready. You can have instant access to your online subscription when you receive your registration email, or you can purchase now and start later.
The course grade is calculated this way: Chapter Tests 33.3%, Midterm: 33.3%, Final: 33.3%.
Thinkwell subscriptions have a 14-day refund policy from the date of purchase.
Some states set standards for what topics should be taught in a particular course. Thinkwell does not have a course version for each state. Instead, the course is built to national standards to be inclusive of all states. Websites such as www.achieve.org can help you determine your state's standards
Yes, but completing the exercises online provides immediate correct answer feedback and automatic scoring, so we recommend answering the exercises online.
The courses are designed and licensed to accommodate one student per username and password; additional students need to purchase online access. This allows parents to keep track of each student's progress and grades.
Yes, especially for college-bound students.
Thinkwell courses track everything your student does. When logged in, your student can click "My Grades" to see their progress.
The exercises are multiple choice and they are graded automatically with correct answer solutions.
Thinkwell's Honors Economics counts as 1 credit of Economics on a high school transcript. 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.
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