CurriculumEconomy & You
Economy & You
Inflation, jobs, and interest rates - how headline economics reaches your daily life.
- Inflation Explained A closer look at what causes inflation and how it's actually measured across an economy. 📄 Read-aloud
- Interest Rates and the Central Bank What a central bank actually does when it 'raises rates', and why that one decision ripples through the whole economy. 📄 Read-aloud
- Unemployment: What the Numbers Mean How the unemployment rate is actually calculated, and why it doesn't capture everything it seems to. 📄 Read-aloud
- Economy & You: Checkpoint 1 Covers inflation, central banks and interest rates, and the unemployment rate. 5 questions
- Supply and Demand in Everyday Life The single most useful economic model, and how to see it operating in ordinary daily decisions. 📄 Read-aloud
- GDP: Measuring the Size of an Economy What GDP actually measures, and the limits of using a single number to describe an entire economy. 📄 Read-aloud
- Recessions: What They Are and How They End How a recession is actually defined, what typically triggers one, and why they eventually end. 📄 Read-aloud
- Economy & You: Checkpoint 2 Covers supply and demand, GDP, and recessions. 5 questions
- Trade and Tariffs Explained Simply Why countries trade with each other, what a tariff actually does, and who ends up paying for one. 📄 Read-aloud
- How Government Spending Affects You How government spending decisions ripple through the broader economy and into everyday life. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Stock Market vs the Economy: Not the Same Thing Why stock prices and the broader economy can move in opposite directions, and why that isn't a contradiction. 📄 Read-aloud
- Economy & You: Checkpoint 3 Covers trade and tariffs, government spending, and the stock market versus the economy. 5 questions
- Global Events and Your Wallet A closing lesson connecting global economic events to concrete, everyday effects on your own finances. 📄 Read-aloud