Title: 4.5 Money - FRED Activity TEACHER ONLY
Course: AP Macro Unit 4 Financial Sector 18-23% Sample Syllabus > Section: Section 4.5: The Money Market

FRED® Activities for AP Macro

This package of 17 brief FRED® activities aligns perfectly with the AP Macroeconomics curriculum. Easy-to-follow instructions guide students as they create basic and advanced graphs using FRED® (Federal Reserve Economic Data). Each activity includes questions about real data designed to reinforce students’ understanding of fundamental AP Macro concepts. Topics include output, prices, employment, interest rates, and the Phillips curve. Download the complete packet, or pick and choose the activities in any order. As a bonus, students can save graphs to a dashboard linked to their free FRED account. Graphs can be retrieved any time and set to update automatically with the latest data.

An answer key for each activity, including links to auto-updating graphs, is available upon request to teachers who register a free Econ Lowdown account.

Money

Activity 12 focuses on the money supply and interest rates.
Concepts covered: Monetary Policy.
Download Activity 12 (pdf)

https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/fred-activities-ap-macro