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Chapter 12: Fiscal Policy

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Uncle Sam wants YOU...to understand fiscal policy! With clear bullet points and informative graphs, your budding economists will understand the finer points of fiscal policy and its implications within the American economy, as well as...
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Center for Literacy and Disability Studies

GDP and Fiscal Policy Monopoly

For Teachers 10th Standards
Using the classic game of Monopoly and a revised set of rules in this resource, your class members will discover how GDP is calculated and practice enacting expansionary or contractionary fiscal policies. What a great way to learn about...
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What Works and What Doesn't: The Potential and Limitations of Fiscal Policy

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders study micro- and macro-economies. They examine theories about fiscal policy and the relationships between consumption and output, tax policy and government spending changes. They also consider how economic perspectives...
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Council for Economic Education

The Role of Government: The Federal Government and Fiscal Policy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Give learners a crash course in balancing the books on the United States federal government level with an economics and government resource. Class members engage in a warm-up discussion and brainstorming session before answering...
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Carolina K-12

Learning About the Federal Budget: “Get a Pencil, You’re Tackling the Deficit!”

For Teachers 10th Standards
Your class members have been selected by the president to help solve the budget crisis as part of a special deficit commission. After learning about fiscal policy, economic theories, and the federal budget through a detailed...
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Council for Economic Education

Federal Budget Lesson Plan and Fiscal Ship Student Game

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The federal budget has never been so fun! Using an interactive game, high schoolers choose from a variety of policy options after identifying goals and try to balance these changes in policy with a federal budget. 
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Monetary Policy

For Students 9th - 12th
As an introduction to monetary policy, groups investigate and evaluate the effectiveness of current monetary and fiscal policies on promoting full employment, price stability, and economic performance. They then apply monetary tools...
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Council for Economic Education

Economic Data Lesson: Economic Policy Options

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Can you make decisions that will impact millions of people around the nation? Scholars research the role of the Federal Reserve, and its Chairman, on the economic outlook of the country. They analyze current trends in unemployment,...
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Macroeconomic Policies

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars examine the main distinctions between the three key economic policies used by governments. They analyze key terms and learn to apply them to real life examples. They develop the key skills of analysis and evaluation.
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Ask Not What Your Government Can Do For You...Why Not?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore tax incentives that are available for businesses to locate or expand their operations. They discuss reasons entrepreneurs should be aware of the governmental incentives that are available.
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Council for Economic Education

GDP Data: Is the Economy Healthy?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Does the economy needs a check-up? Scholars analyze the gross domestic product (GDP) to determine the overall health of the current economy. They use a short video clip as well as economic data to determine the current growth of the...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Crowding Out

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
This is an incredible resource for teaching your young economists about the loanable funds market and the concept of crowding out. It includes a hands-on, physical activity that serves as a metaphor to help explain the economic...
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An Introduction to the Federal Reserve

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the Federal Reserve System.  In this secondary economics lesson, students view a DVD titled In Plain English:  Making Sense of the Federal Reserve.  Students take notes and work in groups to review the...
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Budget Busters

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Use this economic activity to focus on writing summaries of informational text. First, middle schoolers define common economic terms used to describe news about the economy. They closely read news about the federal budget deficit and...
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Keynesian Economics and Fiscal Policy

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students examine and analyze the characteristic problem of each phase of the business cycle. Students articulate the appropriate choices for each of the problems described. Students apply the writing process to write an essay.
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Macroeconomic Policies

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students view a PowerPoint presentation on macroeconomic policies. They identify and define the main distinctions between the three key economic policies used by governments and debate their merits.
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Ist's Yours- It's Mine

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concept of having an income as part of an economic system. They use the circular flow model to describe monetary policies. Students explain how policies of government influence the redistribution of income and...
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Poverty, Inequality, and Income Distribution

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students come up with a definition of poverty through performing an investigation. The problems of policy makers is addressed with the intention of how poverty can be solved. The problem of poverty is shown to have the capability of...
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Council for Economic Education

One is Silver and the Other's Gold

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners investigate the money supply and how it can affect the value of money. They examine how the changing money supply can affect prices.
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Poverty, Inequality and Income Distribution

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars view a PowerPoint presentation on poverty in the UK and then research and discuss different strategies available to governments for tackling poverty through fiscal policy.
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Government Lesson Plan 19

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define vocabulary terms related to monetary policies, and apply monetary tools to solve economic scenarios.
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The European Union 2

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Pupils examine the social implications of the European Union. They examine how the European Union addresses poverty and unemployment through new policies.
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The Role of Government

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the economic roles of the federal government. Using the internet, they read information related to government spending and the actual dollar amounts attached to budget items. In groups, they develop their own...
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How Markets Work

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the role of government in the economy market. In this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are trying to...

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