# Open and Operating

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Open and Operating The Federal Reserve Responds to September 11. This video-based lesson is designed for high school and college students to answer these important questions and provide teachers of history and economics a flexible format in which to introduce the Federal Reserve System. The events of September 11, 2001 provide the context for this lesson, documenting how the Federal Reserve acted decisively to calm the financial markets, keep funds moving, and stabilize the economy. Students will participate in an opening discussion, actively view the Open and Operating video, and complete a culminating assignment. A web page for this video is here and the lesson plan is here. This video is available with closed captioning and without closed captioning.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 2007
- By: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.frb.sf.911.01)
- Licence or status: [Public domain (Creative Commons dedication)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/gov.frb.sf.911.01?play=1)