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Creative Change Educational Solutions offers a high school curriculum about remediation of abandoned or contaminated urban sites.

Economics of Global Climate Change is an updated teaching module from the Global Development and Environment institute.

Teachable Moment has new document-based activities on economic anxiety, military spending, immigration, single payer health insurance and climate change.

Resources by Topic

Business education Competition and monopoly Consumer issues Distribution of income and wealth Ecological issues GDP Globalization and trade	Government spending and taxes Growth and development Inflation and prices Labor and unions Money, banks and the Federal Reserve Supply, demand and markets
Links to organizations

Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

On the use historical use of money, see Public Broadcasting System’s NOVA site.

The U.S. Federal Reserve materials show what constitutes money, how it is created, and how the Federal Reserve conducts monetary policy. For example, see In Plain English: Making Sense of the Federal Reserve.

Students can learn about consumer rights with electronic fund transfers from the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission .

For information on current Board of Governor appointees, see the U.S. Federal Reserve. For information on Board of Governor appointments, see Financial Markets Center.