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In this lesson, students listen to the book Earth Day—Hooray! They learn how incentives
change people’s behavior. The students learn how Luke, Carly, and Ryan, characters
in the book, collect cans to sell to the recycling center...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students listen to the book The Goat in the Rug, about a Navajo weaver named Glenmae
who uses mohair from her goat Geraldine and a number of resources and intermediate
goods to make a traditional Navajo rug. The students are pla...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
In this lesson, students learn about saving, savings goals, interest, borrowing and
opportunity cost by reading Less Than Zero by Stuart J. Murphy. Students use a number line
and a line graph to track spending and borrowing in t...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students listen to the book Monster Musical Chairs and identify the scarcity problem the monsters had—
not enough chairs for every monster to have one. Students wear a picture of a want they have drawn and play a version of music...
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Grades: K-2
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
After reading the book My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George, students discuss the human capital that Sam possessed, the investments in human capital that he made, and why these investments were important. Students wor...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students learn about opportunity cost, saving, savings goals and a savings plan by reading The Pickle Patch Bathtub. Students will develop savings plans that lead to their own savings goals.
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
In this lesson, students learn that saving is essential to economic well-being, especially in times of extreme economic downturn. They read Saving Strawberry Farm, a story about a Depression-era family attempting to save a neighbo...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students learn about scarcity, alternatives, choices and opportunity costs by reading So Few of Me. The class participates in an activity to help Perdita figure out her morning schedule at summer camp. The students identify Perdit...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Turn Your Radio On, Students use excerpts from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "fireside chats" to identify his plans for restoring the economy. Lesson 5 of 6, 24 pages
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students make a choice between a cookie and an ice cream cone and state the opportunity cost of their decisions. They then listen to the story, Something from Nothing, and identify all the items Grandpa makes his grandson Joseph, ...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
In this multidisciplinary lesson, students work in small groups (\"work crews\") while participating in a production activity. Students learn about competition, division of labor, and incentives. They also demonstrate how division...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students participate in a puzzle activity to identify leadership characteristics that Abraham Lincoln possessed. They review the changes in the redesigned $5 note and consider how Lincoln’s leadership characteristics contribute to...
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Grades: 6-8
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students participate in a simulation to learn about choices, alternatives, opportunity cost and human capital. They learn the PACED decision-making model, apply the model and recognize that learning the model is an investment in t...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students work with data that represent the ages of 24 people to learn the difference between categorizing data in fractile intervals and equal intervals. Students discuss dividing bonus points among class members to understand wha...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students visit the FED101 web site to learn about the structure of the Federal Reserve. They recognize that there are 12 Federal Reserve districts. The students use the GeoFRED web tool to identify those districts and use a map fr...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
In this lesson, students read and interpret choropleth maps, which contain unemployment data. They compare verbal descriptions of the labor market from the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book with the mapped data. In addition, students c...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students consider who is pictured on the different denominations of U.S. currency and why. They participate in an activity to identify functions of basic, everyday items and then identify and explain the functions of another basic...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
The GDP and Pizza: Economics for Life course is a two-day, online course produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. It is designed to help students in civics, economics and other social studies classes grasp the challengin...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: online course
Cards, Cars and Currency is a curriculum unit that challenges students to become involved in three specific areas of personal finance: credit cards, debit cards and purchasing a car. The unit is divided into five lesson plans. The...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lessons
Through participation in two simulations, students determine that bank panics and a shrinking money supply were the primary causes of the Great Depression. Through an additional activity, they see how the many other factors they h...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
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