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Mimi's Village
This lesson will introduce students to health care practices and services, as well as healthcare professions, including differences across geographic regions and income levels. Students will work collaboratively to craft a health care plan.
Dashboards of Key Economic Data, by State
These classroom-ready dashboards show how FRED gives students the latest insights into real world data related to employment, earnings, and education.
Lesson Plans and Activities for Teaching with FRED® Maps
Lesson plans for teaching with FRED maps includes instructional guides, lesson plans and activities with FRED, the St. Louis Fed's data service.
The Night Worker
This lesson, based on a children's story, will introduce students to productive resources related to certain jobs and how human capital helps workers perform their jobs.
Skilled Trade Pays
In this lesson, students will explore research and data based on opportunity occupations, or jobs accessible without having to obtain a four-year degree.
One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
Students learn about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs. Students are asked to apply these characteristics to themselves and people in their own communities by completing a story pyramid and then write a short story that demonstrates entrepreneurship.
Ten Mile Day
Students work in small groups ("work crews") while participating in a production activity. Students learn about competition, division of labor, and incentives. They also demonstrate how division of labor and incentives help lead to greater productivity.
Teaching Economics with Baseball: Negro Leagues Baseball Microlessons
These mini lessons and materials include multi-discipline instruction and cultural components that can help students understand and celebrate the legacy of the Negro Leagues Baseball and how they transformed generations.
Economist Spotlight Dr Raphael Bostic
Explore patterns in home loan data with Dr. Raphael Bostic. Learn how identifying patterns can help you answer BIG QUESTIONS and create a stronger economy for everyone.
Let Them Play
In this lesson, students will be introduced to the concepts of resources, scarcity, human capital and boycott. After reading a reality-based story about an all-black Little League team that faced racial prejudice, students will determine resources used in the production of baseball-related goods and complete comprehension and analysis-driven activities tied to key vocabulary covered within the lesson. Specifically, students will identify examples of scarcity, interpret consequences of various actions and determine ways to improve human capital. Additionally, K-2 grade students will interpret textual and visual data, while 3-4 grade students will work together to solve mathematical problems based on the story