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For this class, we are designing a 100% online course. This could not have come at a better time. In the times of COVID, everything is up in the air and my school has decided to implement Schoology. I find this quite exciting to practice with a platform that I know I will be using very soon. I’m certain once I have the course completed and my first set of students embark on the online journey, I will be making many changes to the course. I am using this time to prepare for the fall by creating a mini course based on what I will teach: AP Macroeconomics.
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AP Macroeconomics Unit 1
WEEK 1: SCARCITY AND CHOICE
Objectives and Plan
Students will familiarize themselves with the student objectives for the week. They will also read a brief outline of their tasks and assignments for the week.
Video lessons: The students will watch and take notes over two videos. These videos will go over the concepts of scarcity and how it relates to economics. They will learn about how choices tie in to the idea of scarce resources and the cost of those choices.
Video 1: Episode 2: Scarcity and Choice
Video 2: Opportunity Cost Definition and Real World Examples
Discussion Board: Students will create an original post and then comment on at least 2 of their classmates' posts.
Using the ideas from the video lesson, they will write a post using examples from their life about the concepts of scarcity, choice, and opportunity cost. They will be required to mention how incentives and costs vs. benefits were used when making their choices.
Video Assignment: Students will made a video to explain why economists would study the scarcity of one of the resources given in the prompt (land, fresh water, oil, lumber, labor)
Week 1 Quiz: Multiple Choice quiz over the concepts of week 1. This quiz consists of questions from AP Exam sources that will prepare them for similar questions on the AP Exam.
WEEK 2: PRODUCTION POSSIBILITIES
Objectives and Plan
Students will familiarize themselves with the student objectives for the week. They will also read a brief outline of their tasks and assignments for the week.
Reading: Students will read an article from Khan Academy about the Production Possibilities Curve and how they relate to content from Week 1.
They will take notes from the reading and use these notes for the remaining assignments for this week.
Video Lessons: The students will watch and take notes over two videos. These two videos explain how the concepts of scarcity, choice, efficiency, and opportunity costs are illustrated by Production Possibility Curves.
Video 1: Production Possibilities Curve Review
Video 2: Shifting the Production Possibilities Curve
Discussion Board: Students will create an original post and then comment on at least 2 of their classmates' posts.
Prompt: During the Second World War, Germany’s factories were decimated. It also suffered many human casualties, both soldiers and civilians. How did the war affect Germany’s PPF curve? And why? After you answer this question, pose another situation that would affect Germany’s PPF curve differently than the prompt.
Week 2 Quiz: Multiple Choice quiz over the concepts of week 2. This quiz consists of questions from AP Exam sources that will prepare them for similar questions on the AP Exam.
WEEK 3: ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
Objectives and Plan
Students will familiarize themselves with the student objectives for the week. They will also read a brief outline of their tasks and assignments for the week.
Video Lesson: The Students will watch a Crash Course Video that explains the 3 key economics questions and the different types of economic systems who attempt to answer the questions differently.
Video: Economic Systems and Macroeconomics: Crash Course
Discussion Board: Students will create an original post after reading an attached article and then comment on at least 2 of their classmates' posts.
Article: Economic Systems Article
Practice Questions and Concepts: Quizizz Review Game
Students will use the Link provided to practice key concepts from Week 3 with a Quizizz game. This game poses multiple choice questions over Economic systems and allows the students to compete on the leader-board based on speed and correctness.
Week 3 Quiz: Essay Prompt over the concepts of week 3. This quiz consists of an open ended question from AP Exam sources that will prepare them for similar questions on the AP Exam by tying the concepts from weeks 1-3.
How does the type of economic system influence incentives and choices made by individuals? How does “who” answer the 3 key economics questions relate to that country’s level of efficiency and their production possibilities?
WEEK 4: CIRCULAR FLOW MODEL
Objectives and Plan:
Students will familiarize themselves with the student objectives for the week. They will also read a brief outline of their tasks and assignments for the week
Video Lesson and Practice: Circular Flow Matrix-How the Economy works:
Students will watch the video and take notes. This video explains how goods & services, money, and the factors of production flow through the economy. The video uses the movie: The Matrix to explain how the product and factor market play a role in the circular flow model.
Students will either print out or download the Circular Flow Worksheet and use the video to help answer questions about the relationship between the actors in the Circular Flow Model.
Discussion Board: Students will post an original post answering the prompt and respond to at least 2 other students’ post.
Students will post how leakages in the circular flow model become injections. Students will use critical thinking to make an argument on what the role of the government should be in the circular flow model.
When posting on their classmates’ post, students will either add on to the argument or find holes in their classmates' argument by using content from Week 3: Economic Structures.
Week 4 Quiz: Multiple Choice quiz over the concepts of week 4. This quiz consists of questions from AP Exam sources that will prepare them for similar questions on the AP Exam.
WEEK 5: SUPPLY AND DEMAND
Objectives and Plan:
Students will familiarize themselves with the student objectives for the week. They will also read a brief outline of their tasks and assignments for the week
Video Lesson: Students will watch and take notes over 3 videos that explain the relationship between price, quantity demand, quantity supply and the factors that change demand and supply at every price level.
Video 1: Demand and Supply Explained -Macro Topic 1.4
This video focuses on the law of demand and the determinants of demand
Video 2: Demand and Supply Explained Part 2 - Macro Topic 1.5
This video focuses on the law of supply and the determinants of supply
Video 3: Shifting Demand and Supply - Macro Topic 1.6
This video focuses on the 6 factors that shift the demand curve and the 4 factors that shift the supply curve. It also explains how price and quantity change depending on whether supply and/or demand increase or decrease.
Discussion Board: Students will post an original post answering the prompt and respond to at least 2 other students’ post.
Students will find an article/current event that ties in with how prices change due to changes in the demand and/or supply of products. They will make a prediction about how this change will affect related markets. On the responses to their classmates, they will make predictions about how the supply and demand of their current event will affect related markets.
Video Assignment: Students will make a video using Screencastify answering the prompt over Supply and Demand.
A list of everyday items are posted, students must pick one of the items and graph how supply and demand could change with 3 examples. In the video they must show how price and quantity change from their examples, as well as graphing the changes in at least one related market.
This course is specifically designed to prepare students for the first unit on the AP Exam for Macroeconomics. Each lesson gives the students the tools and practice that will be required for success in accordance with College Board.