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Analyzing Federal Reserve Data
How do you assess the health of the economy? In these lessons, students will analyze data in real time by linkin…
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Student Writing Contest
Enter our student writing contest for a chance to win cash prizes for you and your students! All you have to do is have your students write their economic advice in 50 words or less answering the following question: What Economic Advice Would You Give to POTUS?
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
The 57th Annual Financial Literacy & Economic Education Conference
Join us in Atlanta, GA from October 5-6, 2018. The Conference offers 100-plus sessions and workshops that will provide actionable tactics to help teachers incorporate personal finance and economics in your classroom. Network with teachers, hear from guest speakers, earn continuing education credits and more.
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Free K-12 Teacher Webinars
The webinars cover multiple topics on how to integrate personal finance and economics in the classroom. Teachers will earn continuing ed credits and will leave with relevant lessons, resources and tools that can be implemented the next day.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
Math in the Real World
A collection of lessons and activities that teach important personal finance and economic concepts in the context of math lessons.
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Cybersecurity, Personal Finance and Economics
How do students avoid running up a bill on their parents’ credit cards while they’re using an app? How do you recognize false information on the internet? These are a sample of the questions answered in these cybersecurity lessons where students will explore basic concepts personal finance and economics.
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In This Day in Economic History
September
22
1995
On this day in 1995 a contract was penned to have billionaire Ted Turner sell his broadcasting company to Time Warner Inc. for $7.5 billion. The deal was lucrative for Turner but not for many of his shareholders and coupled with objections from the Federal Trade Commission it took over a year to get the deal approved. In that time the shares of Time Warner took enough of a hit to cause the finalized deal to be worth only $6.5 billion.