Price Stability
Learn about price stability and how it is measured.
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Lessons & Activities
46-60 min
How High is Your Fed IQ?
OVERVIEW
Use this activity as a formative assessment to see how much your students know about the Federal Reserve System before you introduce the content. To implement, ask students to find 12 different people who can give them an answer to each of the following questions. Each person they find will write the answer they know in the box and place their initials in the box under their answer. Give a small prize to the first five people who finish the activity with all correct answers and go over the correct information using the answer key.
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VIDEO Q&A
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Why Does the Fed Care about Inflation?
Explain what happens when inflation gets out of control.
MODULES
31-45 MIN
The Fed's New Monetary Policy Tools
Explore the new monetary policy tools of the Fed.
READING Q&A
16-30 MIN
Minding the Output Gap: What Is Potential GDP and Why Does It Matter?
This issue of Page One Economics® explains how the output gap is useful for checking the health of the economy.
LESSONS & ACTIVITIES
31-45 MIN
Fiscal vs Monetary Policy
Learn about fiscal and monetary policy.
CURRICULUM UNITS
Teaching the New Tools of Monetary Policy
Resources for teaching the Fed's monetary policy tools in an ample-reserves framework.
