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The Atlanta Fed and other Federal Reserve Banks have award-winning, free lessons to help middle and high school educators teach about personal finance, money and banking, macro- and microeconomics, and international economics.
This lesson and bingo game will teach your students some of the traits that employers value in workers. Explore concepts related to soft skills—and game on!
Give your student the power to succeed financially with this comprehensive personal finance project. Each section helps students practice the key personal finance skills. The curriculum unit includes all the instructions, forms, and rubrics students need to complete the project. Teachers can select individual components or assign the entire project.
Students participate in an interactive simulation to determine the number of workers a farm should hire to maximize profits in a perfectly competitive labor market.
Teaching the structure and functions of the Federal Reserve? This lesson helps your students understand the role of the Fed's Board of Governors through video, movement, and discussion.
How do the Fed's interest rate changes affect our daily lives? And where does the Fed get the information that informs its interest rate decisions? The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's new boardroom video answers these questions, with active-learning exercises accompanying the video.
Looking for an engaging way to introduce elasticity to your students? This lesson uses rubber bands and other familiar products to get your students excited about the topic.
The Federal Reserve has a wide variety of careers available in various fields, and this lesson will allow students to consider various career opportunities that may be available to them in the future.
Students will learn about essential soft skills, evaluate the soft skills needed for specific jobs, conduct a soft skills self-assessment, and practice professionalism.
Do your students have questions about the debate over the minimum wage? Give them insight into the economics of price floors by using this interactive lesson.
In this lesson, students will interpret primary sources and participate in a simulation activity to learn about the mercantilist system used in British North America.
This lesson on the economics of the peanut industry—using interactive activities, primary source analysis, and graphing—is a great tool for economics, history, and government teachers.
Get your students thinking about saving and investing strategies with this activity. Students will build a hypothetical portfolio to understand the trade-off between risk and return.
What US president said, "Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt"? In this exercise, students will deliberate on historical figures' thinking about our country's debt and construct a timeline of its history.
In this lesson, students will learn about the early history of the Federal Reserve. They will learn about Jekyll Island's past and about the Panic of 1907, the Aldrich-Vreeland Act, the origins and outcomes of the secret Jekyll Island meeting, and the passage of the Federal Reserve Act.
Teach your economics students about the difference between real and nominal values with this activity that uses movies as a learning tool. Students will learn how to adjust a value like a ticket price for inflation, giving the real value.
Use this bingo to help students learn about their classmates as they move around the room and identify behaviors associated with gains from trades, incentives, interdependency, and scarcity.
Which countries are the most important trading partners with the United States? Get your students thinking about their own states' exports with this activity.
Are you teaching a class on globalization, world trade, exports, and comparative advantage? This activity will complement your curricula and help students identify top world export leaders.
Since Gates is one of the richest people in the world it seems logical to say yes, but the answer is more nuanced than that. This activity helps students learn the differences between money, net worth, and wealth.
Katrina's Classroom: Teaching Money Skills for Life is a four-part curriculum unit designed for personal finance-related high school classrooms. The robust curriculum uses hands-on learning strategies and technology integration to teach students about key personal finance concepts and how to apply what they've learned to explore options, make decisions, and complete projects using real-world tools.
