The Economics of CA's Water Shortage

This is an interesting article on the impact of California's water shortage and how it impacts the US.  The video above looks at both the US as well as its impact on the world.  You could use this to discuss how this might shift supply down (to the left) or even how it might impact macroeconomics.  

More Review for End of the Year Test

Andrew Foos, who has some tremendous videos on micro and macro, put together a review exercise for macro and micro, which should be a big benefit for your students.  

RealClearPolitics

Some of you may have heard of RealClearPolitics.  Well there is also RealClearMarkets which gives you all you could want to discuss with your students on the market system.  Basically it aggregates stories from many many sources and will allow you to give a real world application for some of what you are teaching. 

AP Macro Review Help

The top two videos are approximately fifteen minute long videos on all of the key concepts while the third one is every graph you will need.

Here is every equation you need for macro and here is an outline for the course.

If you need help on a topic, here are five minute reviews of everything. 

19 Minute Micreconomics Review

Here is the 19 minute AP Microeconomics review by Jason Clifford.  It would be helpful for your kids to watch it just as a starting point in their review. 

Our Kids by Robert Putnam

My blog is all about free things you can use with your students, but occasionally I veer as in posting about my own new book.  But for year I have asked the students who do poorly in my classes why they don't care in an effort to better serve them.  The answer is always the same "I don't know." Well, now I have a great answer after reading Robert Putnam's new book, Our Kids which argues that we have created two Americas - those in the middle upper class and above and the rest.  He shows, using lots of statistics, but also anecdotal stories, that members of the lower classes are much more likely to have little or no college, more likely to divorce, be a member of far fewer extracurricular activities, be more likely to go to a school with fewer AP/IB classes, and on and on.  He makes a strong argument (and we have heard this before) that the first three years are essential to the life development.  He builds a case that fifty years ago it was much easier for someone to "rise up," but today that is much harder today.  

Resources for the AP Microeconomics Exam

In four class periods my AP kids will be done with both micro and macro so after our last test we will start our review (actually based on research from this book, we have already started some micro review even as we finish macro).   To prepare I have collected a number of free items which are below:

• 100 AP micro questions (and I don't know where I got them)
• A bunch of FRQ questions in one document and 
• Here are ACDC video explanations for many FRQs
• All the formulas you will need in one pdf
• Jason Welker's study guide
• All the graphs you need in pdf format
• Short (2-3 minutes) on every topic
• More short videos
• Finally, above is a short video on every graph you need.