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In this personal finance lesson, students explore budget constraints by solving a contextual problem.

International trade allows countries to buy and sell both domestic and foreign goods, as well as services and financial assets. A country's transactions are summarized in a set of accounts called the "Balance of Payments (BOP)." Students will learn how to record transactions in the BOP acco…

Adjust the numbers in this interactive to see if you can balance the budget. This interactive is intended for use with our National Budget Simulation lesson plan.

In this economics lesson, students will examine political forces influencing the federal budget.

Students will learn how productivity and government policy influences the distribution of income and create and analyze Lorenz curves and the Gini coefficient.

Students use a looping activity to review personal finance vocabulary.

In this lesson students learn about banks and banking. The study the fractional reserve system, and the role the Fed plays in the money creation process.

In this economics activity, students will find a combination of policies that match their values and priorities and set a budget.

Students will use a Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) data dashboard to calculate budget deficits, surpluses, how much federal budgets in certain budget years added to the total public debt, and gross federal debt as percent of GDP. Using the information they have collected, students w…

In this lesson, students learn about the challenges of the federal debt and play the Fiscal Ship simulation.