Content Standard 11: Money and Inflation

Grade 4 Benchmark

5. Inflation is an increase in most prices; deflation is a decrease in most prices.

Grade 8 Benchmark

3. Inflation reduces the value of money

Grade 12 Benchmark

4. In the long-run, inflation results from increases in the nation’s money supply that exceeds increases in its output of goods.

• Teaching About Money and Inflation Using a Classroom Inflation Auction
• Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire Lesson
• Money and Inflation: A Functional Relationship (Page One Economics®)
• The Free Silver Movement and Inflation Lesson
• A Lesson to Accompany “Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy”