Resource
Learning from the Financial Crisis
Here, the Economist Educational Foundation provides a useful 6-lesson introductory pack on financial crises. The pack is designed to give students a basic understanding of the UK’s banking system, recessions, crashes and how banks attempt to resolve them.
Applicable for KS4+, the pack is full of activities that encourage students to engage in the debates that surround financial crashes whilst learning the key concepts needed to understand them.
Topics
Globalisation and Interdependence, Industry and Economy, Production and Consumption
Age Ranges
KS3: ages 11-14, KS4: ages 14-16, KS5: ages 16+
Subjects
Business studies / management, Citizenship, Economics, PSHE / PSE / PSED, Spiritual, moral, social, cultural (SMSC)
