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Focus on Economic Data: U.S. Gross Domestic Product - June 28, 2007

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 - September 2001

Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) during the second quarter (April through June) of 2001 increased at an annual rate of 0.3 percent. This is the final estimate for the second quarter. During the first quarter of 2001, real GDP increased at an annual rate of 1.3 percent. For the year 2000, real GDP increased at annual rates of 2.3, 5.7, 1.3, and 1.9 percent in each of the four quarters. The slowing rate of growth throughout 2000 has continued through the most recent two quarters. The growth rate in real GDP over the last 12 months has been 1.2 percent. That compares with a more than 4 percent annual growth rate over the last several years.

Focus on Economic Data: The U.S. Unemployment Rate April 6, 2007

Explore the connection between the economic indicators and real-world issues. These lessons typically can be done in one class period.

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.

3 out of 9 lessons from this publication relate to this EconEdLink lesson.