Break the Safe! Financial Markets and Monetary Policy Challenge Worksheets with Answers

This resource is a game which can take a whole lesson.

Students need to work together to break the safe before the time runs out. To break the safe they need to solve eight puzzles (tasks) and find the correct letters for the eight letter password.

However this is a very secure safe and the password will change every 5 minutes so students need to work quickly, accurately and together.

The tasks are as follows:
- Functions and characteristics of money looking at Bitcoin
- Crowding Out
- The Economic Cycle and Monetary Policy
- Calculating Bond Yields and Coupons
- Bank Balance Sheet
- Financial Markets Key Terms
- General Financial Markets Questions
- Assets and Liquidity

All tasks have been uploaded in editable PDF versions and word/powerpoint versions for teachers to amend as appropriate. The answers have also been uploaded in a separate document.

These tasks could instead be used as worksheets if this would better suit your teaching.

All of the questions have been written with the new A Level Economics specification in mind. In particular the financial markets topic.