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Building Wealth: A Beginner's Guide to Securing Your Financial Future
This updated and expanded booklet offers strategies on setting financial goals, budgeting, saving and investing, debt management and insurance.

Building Wealth in the Classroom
These lesson plans are designed to facilitate the use of Building Wealth in high school classes. The lessons use a variety of instructional techniques and include student activities, handouts and presentation visuals.

Building Wealth CD-ROM
Order the CD-ROM version of "Building Wealth: A Beginner's Guide to Securing Your Financial Future."

Globalization
Discusses the increasing integration of the world's economies through the flow of goods, money and people across national borders. Includes a discussion of foreign currency exchange and a timeline of innovations that furthered globalization.

Entrepreneurs
Introduces the critical role entrepreneurs play in the economy and highlights the accomplishments of well-known entrepreneurs featured in profiles throughout the text.

International Trade
Examines the benefits of specialization and trade, using the economic principles of absolute and comparative advantage. It also discusses protectionism and worldwide efforts to open trade.

Everyday Economics
A series of colorful booklets explaining fundamental economic concepts for high school students.

Free Enterprise: The Economics of Cooperation
Looks at how communication, coordination and cooperation interact to make free markets work. Provides an understanding of our economic system—one that encourages both individual freedom and social cooperation.

Economic Research Publications
The Dallas Fed provides several publications that encompass a broad range of economic research topics.

Webcasts

Evening at the Fed: Webcast for Educators
The recently passed Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act represents lawmakers' attempt to reform the financial regulatory structure in response to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. In this presentation, Federal Reserve Research Officer Ken Robinson will trace the history of bank regulation in the U.S., how it has been shaped by financial turmoil and the possible consequences of the regulatory structures that have evolved.

Conversation with the Chairman
"Conversation with the Chairman" was a unique opportunity to join colleagues from across the country to learn from Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. During this event, Bernanke addressed teachers nationwide via videoconference.

Question and Answer Session with Harvey Rosenblum and Jeff Gunther
Dallas Fed economists Harvey Rosenblum, executive vice president and director of research, and Jeff Gunther, vice president, spoke at the Dallas Fed after the Chairman's remarks and addressed additional questions from attendees.

Publications at Other Federal Reserve Banks

High School
off-site Banking Basics (FRB Boston)
Provides an overview of the banking system for young people. Topics include check clearing, currency circulation, methods of payment, electronic banking and the role of the Federal Reserve. Designed for students with an understanding of the U.S. banking system.
off-site Comic Book Series (FRB New York)
Designed for students, this series presents a lively and easy-to-understand look at the Fed and the economy.
off-site

Currency and the Fed (FRB St. Louis)
Students consider who is pictured on the different denominations of U.S. currency and why, identify and explain the functions of money, and learn some basic facts about money and the Federal Reserve System.

off-site

Economic Quiz (FRB Boston)
The economic quiz is designed to test your knowledge of economics. Topics include the Federal Reserve, monetary policy, international economies, fiscal policy, housing, and many others.

off-site FedPoints (FRB New York)
A reference series explaining the structure and functions of the Federal Reserve System and the economic concepts relevant to its work.
off-site History of Central Banking (FRB Philadelphia)
Describes the history of central banking in the United States from 1791 through deregulation.
off-site In Plain English (FRB St. Louis)
A guide to the Federal Reserve System, introducing who we are and what we do. Includes DVD, booklet and other features.
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Katrina's Classroom: Financial Lessons from a Hurricane (FRB Atlanta)
A four-part video-based curriculum designed to teach middle and high school students some of the most important aspects of financial responsibility. Students will meet three families who survived Hurricane Katrina and, because of previous financial planning, are in the process of rebuilding their lives. Told from the perspective of a young person, each story generates powerful insights about the need for financial responsibility.

off-site Money in Motion (FRB Philadelphia)
"Money in Motion" is a new financial and historical exhibit that is free, fun and interactive. The exhibit's 16 displays feature interactive games, rare artifacts and historical narrative that trace the history of money and central banking in the United States. Lesson plans are available.
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Show Business: The Economics of Entertainment (FRB Boston)
A learning activity on economics and the entertainment industry that provides an additional tool for teaching and learning about basic economic concepts and some economic history.

   
off-site Elementary and Middle School Classroom Resources
off-site Federal Reserve System Publications Catalog (FRB New York)
View, order and/or subscribe to public information materials for students, teachers and the general public.

 

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