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The Fed Experience is an interactive museum that lets visitors explore their connection to the economy. The museum is free and open to the public.
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These K-12 lesson plans, activities and publications are correlated with national and state teaching standards.
Your Connection to the Economy and the Federal Reserve
An infographic illustrating how the Federal Reserve connects to your daily life.
5E Navigator
5E Navigator is an online publication designed for financial literacy practitioners, educators and the public. It provides reliable information to help people make informed decisions about their personal finances. Each issue of 5E Navigator takes the reader on a navigation-themed journey exploring a personal finance topic.
My Money
My Money is an educational workbook for students in elementary school. Topics include money, coin equivalents, jobs, goods, services and barter.
Dollars and Sense
Dollars and Sense is a budgeting game for middle and high school students. Students select a lifestyle and budget for expenses and unexpected events.
The Economic Goal of Price Stability
In this lesson, students participate in an exercise to experience effects similar to those that consumers experience when dealing with unstable prices.
Econ Focus Reading Q&A: Business Cycles
Econ Focus Reading Q&As are comprised of an article from our Econ Focus magazine accompanied by a quiz. The quiz differs depending on the content of the article, but is typically 10 or fewer questions with a combination of multiple choice or short answer. This Econ Focus Reading Q&A is on business cycles.
Econ Focus
This is the economics magazine of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. It covers economic issues affecting the Fifth Federal Reserve District and the nation and is published on a quarterly basis by the Bank's Research Department.
Is College Worth It?
A Richmond Fed economist references recent data and research in discussing the payoffs and challenges of pursuing post-secondary education. This presentation is directed to educators and financial literacy practitioners interested in helping high school students choose the best path for their future.
Federal Reserve Today
The booklet provides a detailed explanation of the functions, objectives and organization of the Federal Reserve System.
5E Educator
This electronic publication is designed to provide secondary teachers with economics content and classroom activities available from the Federal Reserve System.
Invest in What’s Next: Life After High School
Help your students navigate their first major financial decision – what path to pursue after high school. Through online, self-directed lessons, students build personal finance knowledge and skills to help implement a plan that’s right for them.
PSAs in the Classroom
Engage your students with short PSA videos, paired with easy-to-implement classroom activities, to demonstrate economic and personal finance concepts.
Deficit and Debt Direction Connection
Predict the effect of changes in the economy and other events on tax revenue, government spending, the federal budget and the national debt to determine the connection between deficit and debt.
Fed Centennial Lessons Combined
Conduct a readers' theater, interactive card sort, human timeline activity, and more to learn about the Fed’s history and functions, and how its role has evolved over the last 100 years.
Lemonade for Sale
Use the book Lemonade for Sale to discuss and classify productive resources. Hands on activities are a key part of this lesson and extension activities integrate mathematics and language arts into the exercise.
Fiscal & Monetary Policy: What's the Difference?
Examine quotes from news sources to distinguish the differences between monetary and fiscal policy.
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Invest in What’s Next: Life After High School
What does your future look like? Check out our online resource that helps students plan for life after high school.
Teaching Money Virginia
Are you teaching Virginia’s high school economics and personal finance course? Teaching Money Virginia was created to help you find quality resources.
