Page One Economics

If you are looking for articles and activities about any concept, Page One Economics is a place to start your search. This service is put on by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

IOUSA

If you have not seen IOUSA, I would strongly suggest it. I show this shorter (30 minute) clip to my economics students. It is a bipartisan look at our debt and suggest reasons it exists and what to do to fix it. You can find a viewing guide here. This guide is for the full movie. I always tell my students they will leave both angry and charged to do something.

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Inviting Uncertainty into the Classroom

I love this article because it is one of the many reasons I love teaching economics. There are so many wonderful activities that can and should be done in a high school economics classroom. Now, most of the activities will go as planned, but maybe they should not. I like inserting uncertainty and some chaos into any simulation I do because it forces students to adjust. Economics is all about problem-solving.

AP Macroeconomics Course

One of the biggest obstacles to starting up an AP macroeconomics course, is knowledge of the course content. Teachers either think they need to major in economics to teach it, or people believe you have to have a math degree. Neither is true. Because of the knowledge problem, there are resources to get comfortable with the information. A "free" course can be found here. If I can teach it, anyone can.

Teaching Credit

The Kansas City Federal Reserve has some wonderful activities. One of which is their series on teaching credit. These are lessons that are group based. It is so important to teach this concept as many of our students do not understand the power of compound interest and how much they will actually be paying back for that taco they charged two years ago. I would have them read this in addition to the lesson.

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