Aug 28 - Sept 1

Monday:

1. Journal - Why is inflation bad?
2. DIGI
3. World GDP Map
4. Notes – GDP
5. Video clips: “GDP” and “Real vs Nominal”
6. GDP/GDP Formula Worksheet
7. All About GDP
8. DIGI Questions

Tuesday:

1. Journal – Is unemployment always bad?
2. DIGI Review
3. Bag of Mystery
4. Notes – Inflation
5. Video clips: “Inflation”
6. Stoseel Clip – Gas Prices (Macro)
7. Inflation/Business Cycles
8. Economic Cartoons
9. DIGI Questions

Wednesday:

1. Journal – What do you know about our how our nation’s economy is really managed?  Explain who makes the decisions that really affect it?
2. Unemployment Scenarios
3. Notes – Unemployment
4. Stossel Video – Unemployed Steel Workers (Macro)
5. Worksheet on Unemployment
6. Unemployment Scenario/Writing Assignment
7. DIGI Questions

Thursday:

1. Journal – Explain how we can measure the “health” of a country’s economy.
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes – The Fed
4. Federal Reserve Functions/Systems
5. Chap 12 & 13 Crossword
6. DIGI Questions

Friday:

1. Journal - How is the Federal Reserve different than a “regular” bank?
2. DIGI Review
3. Creating Money Demonstration
4. Notes on Monetary Policy
5. Video clip on Monetary Policy
6. Discuss/Hand Out/Federal Reserve Brochure Project
7. Worksheet on Monetary Policy
8. Worksheet on Monetary Policy and Macrostabilization
9. DIGI Questions

Endurance Review

Here is the review game we played in 3rd block.

Endurance Review

August 21 - 25

Monday:

1. Journal – Are price floors and ceilings ever a good idea?  Explain.
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Market Structures
4. High Priced Fashion (Stossel 2008)
5. Discuss project that starts tomorrow.  They should read about the three business types.
6. Perfect Competition/ Monopoly Worksheet
7. Monopolistic Comp/Oligopoly Worksheet
8. DIGI Questions

Tuesday:

1. Journal - Are monopolies always bad? Explain.
2. DIGI Review
3. Brief Discussion on Sole Proprietorship/ Partnership/ Corporation
4. Small Group Project– Creating Business Types Graphic Organizer
5. Worksheets on Sole Proprietorship/Partnership/Corporation
6. DIGI Questions

Wednesday:

1.     Journals – Which business type do you think is best?  Why?

2.     Vocab Quiz

3.     DIGI Review

4.     Finish working on Project

5.     Notebook Check Sheet

6.   DIGI Questions

Thursday:

     Review for Test

Friday:

1.              Test

2.              Notebooks Due

August 14-18

Monday:

1. Journal - How do you think demand is related to price?
2. Turn in Website Project
3. Notes – Demand (Chapter 4 section 1 and 2)
4. Movie Demand worksheet
5. Determinants of Demand Group Work
6. DIGI Questions

Tuesday:

1. Journal – Explain how complimentary and substitute goods affect demand differently. Use Examples.
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes – Supply
4. Stossel Video – Farm Subsidies (Stossel 2010)
5. Determinants of Supply Group Work
6. Worksheet: Movie Supply
7. DIGI Questions

Wednesday:

1. Journal - How is working with “Supply” different from working with “Demand”?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes – Equilibrium Price
4. Video Clip Supply and Demand
5. Stossel in the Classroom Clip – Costs of “Free” Healthcare
6. Equilibrium Price Group Work
7. Worksheet: Reasons for Changes in Supply/Demand
8. DIGI Questions

Thursday:

1. Journal - Why is it not always best to make as much of something as you can?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes – Demand Elasticity (Chap 4 section 3)
4. Elasticity of Demand Video Clip
5. A Market in Wheat Simulation
6. Elasticity of Demand Worksheet
7. Worksheet - Graphing “A Market in Wheat”/Supply and Demand (Movie Prices)
8. DIGI Questions

Friday:

1. Journal – Describe “demand elasticity” in your own words.
2. DIGI Review
3. Quiz on Determinants of S&D
4. Notes on Floors and Ceilings
5. Minimimum Wage (Stossel Econ Comes Alive)
6. Price Gouging  (Stossel 2007)
7. Price Controls Worksheet
8. Worksheet on Combining S&D/Changes in Market Equilibrium
9. DIGI Questions

August 7 - 11

Monday:

1. Journal - Which Economic System is the best? Why?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes – Economic Systems
4. Introduce Project (So they can prepare for tomorrow)
5. Stossel Video on “The Role of Freedom in Prosperity”
6. Stossel Video on “Economic Freedom in the US, Hong Kong and India
7. Cartoon/Economic Detective Worksheet
8. DIGI Questions

Tuesday:

1. Circular Flow Diagram
2. Stossel Video on Innovation or Collaboration or Income Disparity (Stossel 2013)
3. Circular Flow Worksheet
4. Begin Working on Website Project

Wednesday:

1. Vocab Quiz
2. Marx vs Smith Diagram
3. Stossel Video on “Foreign Aid”
4. Continue Working on  Project

Thursday:

1. Journal - What are some problems with a Free Market Economy?
2. DIGI Review
3. Talk about how test is a different kind of question, not just memorization
4. Discussion on what “Studying is and isn’t”
5. Notes: American Free Enterprise
6. Stossel Video on “Public vs Private”
7. Stossel Video on “Unintended Consequences” (2008)
8. Worksheet – Chapter 3, Sections 1 & 2
9. Worksheet – Chapter 3, Sections 3 & 4
10. DIGI Questions

Friday:

1. Test
2. Notebooks Due