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We have resources to help your elementary, middle-school and high-school students learn more about money and banking, economics, personal finance, history, the Federal Reserve, and economics and geography.

Featured Publications and Classroom Resources

Become a GeoFRED™ Expert with our Online Tutorials

GeoFRED is a data-mapping tool that displays color-coded data on the state, MSA and county levels. For example, GeoFRED can display unemployment, labor force and population for all U.S. counties. Users can select among 19,000 FRED® data series and customize these printable maps according to size, scope and detail. Learn how to use GeoFRED with our series of online tutorials and practice exercises. Then, when you're ready to put your GeoFRED knowledge to work in the classroom, check out our GeoFRED lesson plans.

Find a Wealth of Lesson Plans on Econ Ed Reviews Web Site

You can now find St. Louis Fed lesson plans on www.econedreviews.org, a repository of economic education lesson plans and materials for your classroom. The economics and personal finance lessons you'll find there are reviewed and rated by other teachers. You can even search for lesson materials by grade level, concept, subject and standard.

Notice to Teachers:

Video and DVD Lending Library Discontinued

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is discontinuing its video/DVD lending library. Technology in the classroom is changing, and educators have access to online streaming video and other electronic media for use in the classroom. Thus, very few educators are using the lending library, which makes the cost of operating the library very high, relative to the number of teachers it benefits.

New for educators with SMART Boards™ in their classrooms!

Smart Board activities for our elementary school lesson plans are here! If you see "Interactive Activity (.notebook, 5MB)," beneath the lesson title, there's a Smart Board activity for you to download. (These files require SMART Notebook software.) We'd love to hear what you think about the new activities. E-mail your comments to: economiceducation@stls.frb.org.

Updated A Word on the Economy: Why Is the Country Facing a Financial Crisis?

Need a little help understanding and explaining current events in financial markets to your students? Check out this easy-to-understand presentation on the current economic situation, developed by Julie Stackhouse, senior vice president of the Fed's Banking Supervision & Regulation division. Additional resources: presentation (no audio, PDF 267 KB) | glossary (PDF 102 KB)