Election Lessons
We have provided you several EconEdLink lessons and interactives that you can use with your students as you discuss the elecition issue of the Deficit. These resources are at no cost to you and can be accessed from any computer. Note that there is a teacher version, a student version and a mobile version for each one of the lessons.
The Role of Government: The Federal Government and Fiscal Policy
Students will visit “A Citizen’s Guide to the Federal Budget,” and use the federal government web site to obtain information which will help them understand basic information about the budget of the United States Government for the current fiscal year.
Students serve as an Economic Advisor to the President, who must increase military spending out of political necessity, but needs to reduce spending in other programs to limit the deficit. Conflicting goals create a need for compromise and tradeoffs to create a national budget, while trying to...
Students will read the comic book, "A Penny Saved" published by the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Students will make the information relevant through projects, graphic organizers, teacher instruction, and problems.
Focus on Economic Data: The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy, April 25, 2012
This lesson focuses on the April 25, 2012, press release by the Federal Reserve System's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on the current Federal Reserve monetary policy actions and goals, and specifically, the federal funds rate target. This lesson is intended to guide students and teachers thro...
Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: In Tiny Rhode Island, a Massive Public Pension Crisis LoomsINTERACTIVE
As part of his continuing coverage of Making Sen$e of economic news, Paul Solman examines how Rhode Island is one of many states looking to cut pensions for public employees in the face of massive budget deficits.