Economics Standard Two - Grades 9-12

Sample Activities

Parent Partnership Project: Students could trance family economic histories, starting with the depression and following family fortunes to determine how the depression, inflation, unemployment, business cycles, or monetary policies had a direct impact on them [Macroeconomics].

After an examination of the role of the Federal Reserve in regulating the money supply and interest rates, students would be presented with economic scenarios and would have to analyze them in terms of likely actions by the Federal Reserve [Macroeconomics; economic systems]

This activity would relate very well to a history activity which presented economic situations in recent U.S. history and explored what the Federal Reserve did in response to them.

to Economics Standard Two.