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Explore the connection between the economic indicators and real-world issues. These lessons typically can be done in one class period.
Focus on Economic Data: The Federal Reserve System and Monetary Policy - August 9, 2005
Explore the connection between the economic indicators and real-world issues. These lessons typically can be done in one class period.
Focus on Economic Data: Gross Domestic Product - April 2005
Real gross domestic product (GDP) during the first quarter (January through March) of 2005 increased at an annual rate of 3.5 percent. This is the preliminary estimate of the change in real GDP for the first quarter. It is a revision of the advance estimate of a 3.1 percent increase in real GDP in the first quarter. The increase in real GDP was primarily due to increases in consumption and inventory, software, equipment, residential housing investment, and exports. Imports did increase during the quarter.
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Teaching Financial Crises
Teaching Financial Crises is an eight lesson resource that provides an organizing framework in which to contextualize all of the media attention that has been paid to the recent financial crisis, as well as put it in a historical context. The current events stories, opinion pieces, and other popular media pieces that are today in great supply have generally not connected to educational objectives, historical analysis, and economic processes and concepts that are used in the high school classroom. In Teaching Financial Crises, teachers will find a non-partisan and non-ideological resource to help them simplify and offer balanced perspectives on this challenging subject matter.
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Focus: High School Economics
This revised edition features simulations, role plays, small-group discussions and other active-learning instructional activities to help students explore economic concepts through real-life applications.
2 out of 21 lessons from this publication relate to this EconEdLink lesson.
Trading Around the World
Created as a supplement to existing middle school world geography and world history courses, the 5 units in this guide introduce students to the basics of global trade.
1 out of 7 lessons from this publication relate to this EconEdLink lesson.