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Grade 9-12
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On-Demand Webinar

Where’d All the Money Go? The Great Depression Mystery

Time: 60 mins,
Presenter: Cindy Fitzthum
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Objective

Teachers will be able to:

– Define and identify interdependence within a market economy.

– Describe how the policies of the Federal Reserve System during the 1920s and 1930s affected the Great Depression.

Standards

State Standards

Concepts

Financial Investments, Markets and Prices, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence

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In this economics webinar, identify conditions in the economy to learn about the Great Depression.

Description

Teachers will be able to analyze the relationship between increases and decreases in employment and consumer spending.

Implement these lessons in your classroom and relate to current events.

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