Feb 25 - Mar 1

Monday:

1. Journal – Explain what Fiscal Policy is and how it works.
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes – Taxes
4. Stossel Video: Is Government Too Big (Macro)
5. Stossel Video: Government Growth (Macro)
6. Worksheets on Taxes
7. Yes, I Love Taxes Reading
8. DIGI Questions

Tuesday:

1. Journal – Explain where the federal government gets most of its revenue.  Is this a good thing?
2. DIGI Review
3. Debt vs. Deficit
4. Stossel Video: Federal Spending (2009)
5. Are We Heading Toward a Debt Crisis (Stossel – Making Econ Come Alive)
6. Debt Work
7. DIGI Questions

Wednesday:

1. Journal – Explain the difference between National Debt and National Deficit.  Which is worse?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Federal Spending and State Taxes
4. Stossel Video on Pork Barrel Spending (Stossel Macroeconomics)
5. Video on Budget Cuts Visualization
6. Federal Spending/State Taxes Worksheet
7. Review/Cartoon Worksheet
8. DIGI Questions

Thursday:

1. Journal – Explain what the Federal Government spends most of its budget on.  Is that a good thing?
2. Fiscal vs Monetary Policy Quiz
3. Talk about old test questions
4. Work on Fed Brochure Project

Friday:

1. Journal – Explain what the Federal Government spends most of its budget on.  Is that a good thing?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Absolute/Comparative Advantage
4. Video Clip on Comparative Advantage
5. Stossel Video “Does Outsourcing Hurt the U.S.” (Stossel Macroeconomics)
6. International Trade: Criticisms and Responses (Stossel – Making Econ Come Alive)
7. Worksheet on Absolute/Comparative Advantage
8. Learning to Trade Worksheet
9. DIGI Questions

Feb 11-15

Monday:
Monetary Policy Game

Tuesday:

1. Journal – What are the main tools of Monetary Policy?
2. Vocab Quiz
3. Work on Fed Brochure Project

Wednesday:

1. Journal – What are the main tools of Monetary Policy?
2. DIGI Review
3. Work on Fed Brochure Project
4. Review for Test

Thursday:

1. Test on Unit 3
2. Notebooks Due

Friday:

1. Journal – Explain the two tools that the Fed uses to maintain the economy.
2. Notes on Fiscal Policy
3. Video clip on Fiscal Policy
4. Stossel Video “Broken Windows” (Macro)
5. Worksheet on Fiscal Policy
6. DIGI Questions

Feb 4 - 8

Monday:

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

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 - 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

Thursday:

1. Journal – Explain how we can measure the “health” of a country’s economy.
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes – The Fed
4. Structure and Function of the Federal Reserve/Business Cycles
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