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Students create a graph of gasoline supply and demand and identify the market-clearing price. Students learn about the determinants of supply and demand. They graph a decrease in demand for gasoline and a decrease in supply of gas... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis | Type: lesson
 
Students will examine three Supreme Court rulings and analyze possible positive and negative impacts of the Court\'s decision on eminent domain. The lesson covers: benefits, costs, eminent domain, public good and trade-offs. From ... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis | Type: lesson
 
Measuring the Great Depression: the essay "The Great Depression: An Overview," written by David C. Wheelock, an expert on the Great Depression is incorporated into many of the lessons, as students are asked to read and refer to v... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis | Type: Lesson
 
What Do People Say: Students analyze occurrences such as the stock market crash, and other events that affected particular sectors of the economy, which were important, but not significant enough to cause the Great Depression. Less... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis | Type: Lesson
 
What really caused the great depression: Through participation in two simulations, students determine that bank panics and a shrinking money supply were the primary causes of the Great Depression. Lesson 3 of 6, 30 pages. more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis | Type: Lesson
 
Dealing with the Great Depression, Students learn about programs initiated through the New Deal. By comparing and categorizing New Deal programs, they recognize that the value of most of these programs was their effects on the con... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis | Type: Lesson
 
Turn Your Radio On, Students use excerpts from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "fireside chats" to identify his plans for restoring the economy. Lesson 5 of 6, 24 pages more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis | Type: Lesson
 
Could it Happen Again? Students learn about the roles and functions of the Federal Reserve System. Through a simulation, they learn how the Fed manages the money supply through open market operations. They identify what central ba... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis | Type: Lesson
 
Consumers must make many financial decisions, from basic spending and saving to complex investment choices and retirement planning. What does an individual need to do or know to be financially literate? At a minimum, consumers mus... more »
Grades: 6-8, 9-12 | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis | Type: lesson
 
Using data collected from the Internal Revenue Service for the tax year 2003, students will become involved in an inquiry of individual federal income taxes. The lesson is divided into sections that address specific questions, suc... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis | Type: lesson
 
Upon completion of this lesson, students will be able to list the determinants of demand and supply, recognize which factors will cause demand curves or supply curves to shift, determine equilibrium using a demand/supply graph, an... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis | Type: lesson
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In this lesson, students will learn how to assess the life and work of an entrepreneur from the list of famous entrepreneurs provided, and a list of entrepreneurial traits and characteristics that foster self-worth and individuali... more »
Grades: 9-12 | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis | Type: lesson

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