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Grades 9-12

Employment Data: Is the Economy Healthy?

This series of lessons will introduce you to economic data that economists use to assess the health of the economy....
Key Concepts: Business Cycles, Employment and Unemployment
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Unemployment Data: Is the Economy Healthy?

In this economics lesson, students will learn about economic data and what they communicate about the health of the economy.
Key Concepts: Business Cycles, Employment and Unemployment
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Economic Data Lesson: Economic Policy Options

This is the final lesson in a series of lessons that introduces students to the economic data that economists use...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Business Cycles, Economic Institutions…
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Balancing the Federal Budget | Classroom Demo

Help your students to understand how the federal budget is established using CEE's animated video Overview of the Federal Budget...
Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Budgeting, Fiscal Policy
Video

Grades 9-12

FRED and the Federal Budget Interactive Lesson

Students will use a Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) data dashboard to calculate budget deficits, surpluses, how much federal budgets...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budget Deficit, Budget Surplus…
Lesson

Grades 3-5

Teach About Saving Using "Beatrice's Goat"

This lesson from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' EconLowdown site teaches students what it means to save and...
Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Saving
60 mins
Lesson

Grades 9-12

Taxation and the National Debt (B) | Activity

Use this Image Annotation Tool to enable your students to creatively comment on political cartoons, and to share their annotated...
Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Credit…
Activity

Grades 9-12

Taxation and the National Debt (A) | Activity

Use this Image Annotation Tool to enable your students to creatively comment on political cartoons, and to share their annotated...
Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Credit…
Activity

Grades 9-12

Balancing the Federal Budget | Activity

Use this Image Annotation Tool to enable your students to creatively comment on political cartoons, and to share their annotated...
Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budgeting, Credit…
Activity

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Overview of the Budget Process | Animated Video

How is the federal budget established, what is influencing decision makers, and what do we need to know? Help students...
Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis
Video