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 more »
Grades: | 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, ... more »
Grades: 3-5 | 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... more »
Grades: 6-8 | 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... more »
Grades: 6-8 | 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... more »
Grades: 3-5, 6-8 | 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... more »
Grades: 6-8, 9-12 | 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... more »
Grades: 3-5 | 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... more »
Grades: 6-8, 9-12 | 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... more »
Grades: 9-12 | 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... more »
Grades: 9-12 | 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... more »
Grades: 6-8, 9-12 | 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... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis | Type: lesson

This lesson will help students identify how to make good decisions which will help them financially in the future. Students will identify how to take their own wants and work them into a form of a personal budget. Students will ... more »
Grades: 6-8 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson

This lesson will help students to understand how markets are created by the interaction of buyers and sellers, what demand and supply are, what equilibrium price is, and how demand and supply interact with price changes. more »
Grades: 6-8 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson

This lesson introduces students to the Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, Ben Bernanke. It describes briefly his involvement within the Federal Reserve. more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson

Students will learn about important labor market statistics that are frequently discussed in the media. An understanding of the unemployment rate and labor force participation rate will be developed through participation in an in... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson

Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S.government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. In this series of three lessons, t... more »
Grades: 6-8, 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson

Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S.government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. In this series of three lessons, t... more »
Grades: 6-8, 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson

FTE hot topics are single class period discussion guides including a student reading handout, discussion questions, and suggested answers. The decline in poverty around the world is the result of unprecedented economic growth. Bu... more »
Grades: 6-8, 9-12 | Source: FTE | Type: discussion guide

This lesson focuses on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and rate of inflation reported May 15, 2009, by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the month of April, 2009. Students read the BLS report, analyze the meaning of the... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson