Did you know that at any one moment in the United States, millions of dollars in circulation could actually be fake? Build commerce and chemistry acumen, and discover the tools needed to spot counterfeit currency.

What makes a one hundred-dollar bill valuable? Here is an excellent, straight-forward animated video to help your learners grasp the concept of inflation and the purpose and policies of the Federal Reserve System.

What makes an item change price over time? Inflation is the obvious answer, but it's not always the correct explanation. High schoolers watch a short, illustrative video about inflation and other causes of price change, as well as the...

People use the gold standard to describe the highest quality possible, but in reality, measuring wealth by the gold standard isn't very effective. Discover the ways the Federal Reserve ensures that prices remain stable with a video...

Chances are, the teenagers in your economics class have some experience with money. Help them understand that money is more than the dollars and coins they feed into the school vending machines with a video from Crash Course economics....

Task your young economists with practicing how to identify who demands and supplies dollars in foreign exchanges, as well as recognizing the four shifters of the foreign exchange market and their effect in given scenarios.

Learners are introduced to fluctuating currency exchange rates and the role of supply and demand in this context. They understand the inverse relationship between supply and price based on these concepts and view a hypothetical scenario...

Before beginning any lesson, learners need to have a basic understanding of the terminology commonly used in that content area. Build basic economic vocabulary with this resource. Each economic term is completely defined and then used in...

Learners are introduced to fluctuating currency exchange rates and the role of supply and demand in this context. They understand the inverse relationship between supply and price based on these concepts and view a hypothetical scenario...

"Greece is on the Eruo" and that is why the market has confidence in the country. Greece is in financial difficulty and people are questioning whether the Euro was a good thing. If Greece was on its own currency it's goods might...

This film from the 1950s presents the world of counterfeiting as it existed then. The printing proceses and techniques necessary for distribution are explored with informative and dramatized sequences.

A video describing one of the key roles of the Federal Reserve bank which is to ensure our payments are safe, secure, and efficient. Understand why it is important for the Federal Reserve to monitor the movement of money to support the...

What is money? What is currency? How are the two different. Well, not to give away too much, but money has a few basic functions. [10:35]

An animation made with young people at the Alan Pullinger Centre. Produced in association with MyBnk.

Going basic again. This video covers the basics of what money is and how and why it works. [10:54]

Very funny clip [0:40] from Seinfeld Season 8 discusses the exchange rate to give students a sense of the what the exchange rate is and the difference between nominal and real exchange rates.

What cryptographic hash functions are and what properties are desired of them. [10:14]

Explores how trade imbalances should be resolved by freely floating currencies. [14:20]