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Paul Solman reports on Lehman Bros.' fall from storied Wall Street investment bank to a catalyst for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool - Making Sen$e with Solman
Paul Solman reports on Lehman Bros.' fall from storied Wall Street investment bank to a catalyst for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This lesson focuses on the August 12, 2009, press release by the Federal Reserve System's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on the current Federal Reserve monetary policy actions and goals. This lesson is intended to guide stud...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Paul Solman looks at the faces and places that illustrate the realities of the recession and Jeffrey Brown talks to experts about its impact on jobs.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool - Making Sen$e with Solman
Paul Solman looks at the faces and places that illustrate the realities of the recession and Jeffrey Brown talks to experts about its impact on jobs.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Our Hidden Jobless: A lesson plan featuring in-class debate, original research and some surprising conclusions about the unemployment data, built around a video in which Chicago\'s Ebony Allen tries to get a job.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: lesson / video
Students will explore the current state of the economy on a national as well as a local level and compare their perception of the state of the economy with recent media reporting. They will then create a “state of the economy re...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: lesson / video
Students will understand that the current economic crisis is a “global event” that impacts different nations in similar and different ways. Keyed to the standards of the Omaha Public Schools and McRel, and useful for all.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: lesson / video
Small business owners in Fredericksburg, Virginia are starting to recover from the economic downturn. Antonio Neves returns to check their progress. This is a not a lesson, but a video with several questions provided.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: video
Need a little help understanding and explaining current events in financial markets to your students? Check out this easy-to-understand presentation on the current economic situation. Additional resources: presentation (no audio, ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: presentation / audio
Students will read the Inside the Vault article "As College Costs Rise, Student Loans are Harder to Find" and will complete a survey of college students. Students will discuss the typical costs a college student faces and will lea...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
In this lesson, students learn about data used to measure an economy’s health—inflation/deflation
measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), output measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and
unemployment measured by the unemp...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
There are many suggested causes for the Great Depression. It is important for students to understand that occurrences such as the stock market crash—and other events that affected particular sectors of the economy—were important, ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students learn about programs initiated through the New Deal. By comparing and categorizing New Deal programs, they recognize that the value of most of these programs was their effects on the confidence that U.S. citizens had in t...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
Students use excerpts from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “fireside chats” to identify his plans for restoring the economy. They determine that using available technology to communicate was important to FDR’s effort to restore consum...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
In this lesson, students learn about the role and functions of the Federal Reserve System. They participate
in an activity to learn how the purchase or sale of U.S. Treasury securities affects the supply of money and
credit in t...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
With long-term unemployment at a record high, the nation's jobless are taking little solace in recent data that suggests the recession is winding down.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool - Making Sen$e with Solman
With long-term unemployment at a record high, the nation's jobless are taking little solace in recent data that suggests the recession is winding down.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Since the 1960's, many Americans eligible to vote have not bothered to do so- not even in presidential elections. Low rates of participation in voting have been worrisome to people interested in preserving our democratic tradition...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The threat of inflation is testing the Federal Reserve as it works to determine how to unwind emergency moves taken during the financial crisis.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
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