October 1 - 5

Monday:

1. Review for Test

2. Finish Notebooks

Tuesday:

1.     Test on Unit 4

Notebooks Due

Wednesday:

1. Journal – Why do you think most of the money in the world looks generally the same?
2. Notes on Money
3. Look at Security Features on Money
4. Death to Pennies (CGP Grey)
5. Hand out Money Project
6. Banking Today/History of American Banking
7. DIGI Questions

Thursday:

1. Journal – Are checks money?  Explain why or why not?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Credit and Interest
4. John Stossel Video on “Debt and Responsibility” (Stossel 2009)
5. Credit and Debit/Credit Card Payments
6. DIGI Questions

Friday: 

1. Journal – Explain how a credit card works?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Saving, Investing, Insurance
4. Saving and Investing/Personal Finance Vocab
5. Notebook Check Sheet
6. DIGI Questions

Sept 17 - 21

Monday:

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

Tuesday:

1. Journal – Explain what the Federal Government spends most of its budget on.  Is that a good thing?
2. Work on Fed Brochure Project

Wednesday:

1. Journal – Explain what the Federal Government spends most of its budget on.  Is that a good thing?
2. DIGI Review
3. Fiscal vs Monetary Policy Quiz
4. Notes on Absolute/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

Thursday:

1. Journal - What is the difference between comparative and absolute advantage?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Trade Barriers
4. Win-Win Trading Game
5. Stossel Video on “Boycotts of Sweatshop Products” (Stossel Macroeconomics)
6. Economics of Trade Deficits (Stossel – Making Econ Come Alive)
7. Worksheet on Trade Barriers
8. DIGI Questions

Friday:

1. Journal – How are trade barriers good? How are they bad?
2. Vocab Quiz
3. DIGI Review
4. Notes on Exchange Rates
5. Worksheet on Exchange Rates
6. Chap 17 Review Worksheet
7. Notebook Checksheet
8. Study Guide
9. DIGI Questions

September 10 - 14

Monday:

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

Tuesday:

1. Test on Unit 3
2. Notebooks Due

Wednesday:

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

Thursday:

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. Schoolhouse Rock: Tax Man Max
7. Worksheets on Taxes
8. Yes, I Love Taxes Reading
9. DIGI Questions

Friday:

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

September 3-7

Monday:
Labor Day Holiday

Tuesday:

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 Federal Reserve/Business Cycles 
5. Chap 12 & 13 Crossword
6. DIGI Questions

Wednesday:

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

Thursday:
Monetary Policy Game

Friday:

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

Aug 27-31

Monday:   (Note: Mr. Baumann's class flipped the order of last Friday and Today)
Review for Test - Endurance

Tuesday:

1.     Test

2.     Notebooks Due

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 – 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

Friday:

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

Aug 20-24

Monday:

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

Tuesday:

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

Wednesday:

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

Thursday:

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

Friday:

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

Aug 13-17

Monday:

1. Talk about how test is a different kind of question, not just memorization
2. NB Check Sheet
3. Stossel Video on “Foreign Aid”
4. Continue Working on  Project

Tuesday:

1. Test
2. Notebooks Due
3. Continue Working on Project

Wednesday:

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

Thursday:

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. Ethanol Subsidies (Stossel Making Econ Come Alive)
6. Determinants of Supply Group Work
7. Worksheet: Movie Supply
8. DIGI Questions

Friday:

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