Federal Reserve

A woman from the federal reserve came to talk to my Social Studies methods class last week. She brought us a lot of great resources for teaching economics to older and younger children. She gave us ideas for teaching lessons using the dollar bill or other bills. She suggested teaching a unit on presidents using money because a great deal of their pictures are on our money. She also suggested talking about the different features on our bills and how the have changed the past few years. She also had a great activity for showing children what the economy was like several years ago. She suggested theatre to help explain life back then to the children because they would enjoy it and remember it better. She gave us many other things such as workbooks, fact booklets about money, and a book about the history of money and what money has looked like in the past.