Atlanta Fed Economic Education Webinars
Teaching Consumer and Career Skills Using Movie Quotes and Content: Confessions of a Shopaholic
Thursday, June 13, 2024 - Webinar
10:00–11:00 a.m. (ET)
Register todayExplore how to use quotes and content from the movie Confessions of a Shopaholic (rated PG) to liven up your personal finance and career exploration lessons. The webinar will focus on relatable and humorous examples, scenarios, and quotes that provide strategies for making lessons lively and memorable. Teaching points from the movie focus on topics such as decision-making, money attitudes and emotions, money management, credit, and career exploration. This engaging webinar will also highlight classroom resources for teaching these personal finance concepts.The lessons are appropriate for upper-middle and high school students. Webinar participants will receive a DVD of Confessions of a Shopaholic. There is no charge for this webinar, but registration is required.
Teaching Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Careers:
Using Quotes and Content from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Thursday, June 13, 2024 - Webinar
12:00–1:00 p.m. (ET)
Register todayExplore how to use quotes and content from the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (rated PG) to liven up your teaching of entrepreneurship, innovation, and careers. The webinar will focus on relatable and humorous examples, scenarios, and quotes from the movie and highlight related lessons and activities for your classroom.Teaching points from the movie focus on topics such as entrepreneurship, innovation, changing job markets, consumer tastes and preferences, producer decisions, and more. The engaging session will also highlight classroom resources for teaching these concepts. The lessons are appropriate for upper-middle and high school students.Webinar participants will receive a DVD of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. There is no charge for this webinar, but registration is required.
Economics of Sports
Thursday, June 20, 2024 - Webinar
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. (ET)
Register today Put on your favorite team jersey (completely optional) and join us for a discussion about sports through an economic lens. The session will explore topics such as stadium subsidies, sports apparel contracts, ticket prices, and concepts including supply and demand, opportunity cost, trade, absolute and comparative advantage, and specialization. Additionally, the webinar will review the new interdisciplinary lessons highlighting Negro Leagues Baseball and the US Mint's commemorative coin series featuring those leagues. There is no charge for the webinar, but registration is required.

FREEI 2024
Federal Reserve Economic Education Institute (FREEI) 2024
A Two-Day Virtual Institute
Tuesday, June 25 and Wednesday, June 26, 2024
11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. (ET)
Register todayFederal Reserve economic education specialists will share the history, structure, and workings of the Federal Reserve and why it matters. You may attend one or both days. Topics covered include:

  • What a central bank does
  • What happened to the first and second national banks
  • What makes the Federal Reserve System federal
  • Limits on power: checks and balances
  • How monetary policy is different from fiscal policy
  • Fed myths
  • Inside the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
  • Spotlight on Federal Reserve Bank museums

Participants will earn a certificate of participation and up to eight hours of CPDU credit for attending this two-day virtual institute.

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