Teaching Examples

The following teaching examples were created by community college faculty at this project's workshops.

Using Federal Reserve Economic Data

See also Using FRED

• Where Do You Want to Live? Using GeoFRED, Eric Nielsen, St. Louis Community College Meramec
• Are Recessions Good for Gas Prices? Eric Nielsen, St. Louis Community College Meramec
• Unemployment or Inflation? That is the question! Maria Bravo-Gonzalez, , St. Louis Community College - Meramec
• From Data and Theory to Real Life: The Impact of the Great Recession Maria Bravo-Gonzalez, St. Louis Community College - Meramec
• Exploring Monetary Policy Decisions: A College Classroom Exercise Leticia Starkov, Elgin Community College

Teaching new concepts in monetary policy

• Understanding the Term Auction Facility: an in-class activity Stefan C. Mullinax, Department of Economics and Political Science, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL.
• We Buy Anything: an in-class activity demonstrating the Fed's response to the financial crisis of 2008 Lucy Malakar, Lorain County Community College and Laura Wind-Norton, Nicolet College
• Understanding Monetary Policy: in-class and out of class group activity Ribhi Daoud, Department of Economics, Sinclair Community College
• Critical Thinking Concepts for Monetary Policy Joe Halter, Moraine Park Technical College
• U.S. Financial Crises: What was the same? What was different? Rose-Marie Payan Glendale Community College
• Then and Now- Evolving Fed Response to the Financial Crisis Brent Holt, Ivy Tech Community College
• Can your students stabilize the economy using the federal funds rate? Diana Fortier, Waubonsee Community College, and Cory Wanek, Waukesha County Technical College
• Evaluating Current FOMC Actions Shawn Abbott, College of Siskiyous (CA)
• Can you get reelected as a Fed Chairperson: A group activity Paul Briggs, Windward Community College (HI)
• Can the Fed do more? James Dulgeroff, San Bernardino Community College(CA)
• T-Account Contest: Using Cooperative Learning to Understand Fractional Reserve Banking Diane de Freitas, Fresno City College (CA)
• Summary Report of Fed Response to Recession Erik Dean, Portland Community College, (OR)
• Living Out the FOMC Meeting - A Group Activity on Monetary Policy Michelle Kim, Mission College (CA)
• Is it Monetary or Fiscal Policy Ted Scheinman, Mt. Hood Community College (OR)
• Financial Crisis Group Activity With Sources David Moglen, Foothill College and Evergreen Valley College (CA)
• Secondary Bond Market Simulation with Financial Meltdown Shock James Peyton, Highline Community College (WA)
• Classroom Activity: Interest Rates and Federal Reserve Elizabeth Zahrt Geib, Bellevue College (WA)
• Role-playing exercise: policy response to the Great Recession Don Crooks, San Jose State University (CA)
• Understanding unemployment: a classroom activity to calculate the unemployment rate and other labor force metrics Lucy Malakar, Lorain County Community College (OH)

Other topics

• Job Offers and Factors Affecting GDP Tanya Downing, Cuesta College
• The Federal Reserve Beige Book Challenge Tanya Downing, Cuesta College
• Healthcare in America: Whats Really Going On Becca Arnold, San Diego Mesa college, San Diego, California, based on two eposides of NPRs This American Life
• Currency Value Game Bill Bettencourt, Edmonds Community College, (WA)
• Incorporating the Great Recession into Principles of Economics Courses Deniz Demiray, Mission College (CA)
• Top Ten Causes of the Financial Crisis David Pieper, City College of San Francisco (CA)
• Interactive Video Assignments for Principles Courses, Online Katie E. Lotz, Lake Land College (IL)
• Macro Data Quest Worksheet Exercises Ken Woodward, Saddleback College (CA)
• Comparing "How Today's Students Learn" with "How Today's Employers Hire" Paul Larson Anne Arundel Community College (MD)
• Marginal Utility Classroom Experiment Edwin Fagin Cosumnes River College (CA)