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In the seventh episode of the Economic Lowdown Video Series, a Federal Reserve economic education specialist explains what GDP measures, how it is calculated, how it is useful in determining whether and how quickly the economy is ...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
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
It's Your Paycheck! is designed for use in high school personal finance classes. The curriculum contains three sections—"Know Your Dough," "KaChing"" and "All About Credit." The lessons in each of these sections employ various tea...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lessons
Students listen to a story and answer questions about lending in Bangladesh. They complete a diagram that shows the impact of lending on a community. Working as a class, they compare the similarities and differences between banks ...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8
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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis |
Type: lesson
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 123»
