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 * Federal Reserve Education **
 * Sponsoring Organization:** Federal Reserve
 * Date of Last Update:** This is a government website that is monitored continually and updated when new material becomes available.


 * Authority:** Federal Reserve Bank. The government releases and provides all this information free for teachers, students, or others who are interested in learning about finance.


 * Content:** There is an abundant amount of informatio that can be found throughout this website. There are teacher lesson plans and activities when teaching a Personal Finance class. Also available is projects and short activities for students about the federal reserve itself, money, credit, interest rates, and other topics. There is competitions available for high schools across the country ranging from essays to tests on the history of the FED. The site provides quizzes and tests for the material they cover on the site itself.


 * Currency:** The government updates the website when they have new material to put on the site or to get rid of existing material that becomes outdated, so it is a continuous process.


 * Purpose:** The purpose of this site is to provide financial information to teachers, students, and others alike. The sites main goal is to educate people in the world of finance and financial decisions.


 * Organization of Information, Design and Navigation:** The site has four tabs located along of the top of the page with different tab names: Teacher Resources, Federal Reserve Education, FED 101, Personal Financial Education. Each tab has material related to that tab. You can easily navigate between each tab because the tabs stay at the top no matter what page you link to. The design of the site is to make navigation as easy as possible for one who visits the website. On the homepage all the links for each tab are also located on the side so you know what is located under each tab.


 * Strengths:** One strength of this website is the abundance of information available to one who uses the site. The site is also accurate because it is a government website. Teachers and students alike would find this site very beneficial because of the resources available.
 * Weaknesses:** A disadvantage of this site would be its amount of links. There are an abundant amount of links that one would have to use to get where they want to go to find information. Also, a disadvantage can be its main advantage in the fact their is a large amount of information. So teachers really need to use the site and know exactly what they want to do before they have the students jump on the site for use. Teachers must give clear instructions about where they want their students to go.


 * Instructional Uses:** I use this site when I want to give a brief history about the Federal Reserve and how it works and why it was established. I have my students take the Federal Reserve Quiz and I come up with a Knowledge Hunt of questions my students must answer when navigating through the website. I have used it for a few brief lessons with finance and interest rates as well.


 * Benefits to Students:** Students benefit because they learn what the Federal Reserve is and why it was established and what they do. Also, students benefit because many teachers can receive material they can use in their classroom that are authentic and useful in finance.