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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: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: lesson / video
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 |
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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 |
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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
Students learn about the structure and functions of the Federal Reserve System, the Fed’s role in formulating monetary policy, and how members of Reserve Banks’ board of directors contribute to interest rate–setting decision...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: lesson
This three-day lesson can be used as a review activity for a macroeconomics unit or as a supplement to a classroom discussion of how the Federal Reserve's Monetary Policy affects individuals' lives.The student groups create differ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: lesson
In this video and discussion segment, NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to a behavioral economist who studies what influences cheating and who cheats more than others.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: video / discussion
Students will:
* Pool prior knowledge and acquire new tools to analyze the economy of a town
* Acquire key information from video segment on the economy
* Learn to read and decipher unemployment rates
* Develop definitions of ...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: Lesson
Video and discussion exploring unemployment. With millions of Americans losing their jobs in the current recession, African American unemployment is reaching record levels. Economics Correspondent Paul Solman drives the neglected...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: video / discussion
Video and discussion questions about the 2009 stimulus package compared to the New Deal: Now that government money has begun to trickle down to specific projects in St. Louis, developers hope that the stimulus package will revita...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: video / discussion
Looking at the top five investment banks, Americans\\\' frustration continues over extravagant pay to executives receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer aid. Americans are beginning to ask whether we can get any of that money b...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: video / discussion
As more Americans continue to lose their jobs - more than 600,000 in March - some companies are giving their employees the option of shared sacrifice in order to help keep employees from losing their jobs. This short lesson has s...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
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In this video, NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports from Antioch, California, where a growing number of people are barely making a living whether or not they have a job. This short lesson has some \"warm up questions” ...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
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As the American economy continues to falter, anger against Wall Street and the bankers who contributed to the catastrophe is growing. But in 1920 America, there was a world-wide dissatisfaction with capitalism that went beyond an...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
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n this four minute video, Great Depression historian Robert McElvaine describes research that shows how economic downturns can lead people away from conspicuous consumption to a more community-oriented way of life. This short les...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
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President Obama recently visited the Village Academy High School in Pomona, Calif., after watching a video about unemployment and home loss students made as part of an English class. This short lesson has some "warm up questions" ...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: lesson / video
During the 2009 financial crisis, everyone has heard about the trillions of dollars the federal government is spending to help fix the economy. In this report, NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman explains where all that ...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: lesson / video
Students will learn who is in the Group of 20 and the issues they face. Students will understand that the current economic crisis is a “global event” that impacts different nations in similar and different ways.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
Type: Lesson
President Obama went to Elkhart, Indiana last month to sell his stimulus package against a backdrop of despair. This short lesson has some "warm up questions" and "discussion questions" on this topic as presented in a video.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions |
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