Spring 2010 ‘Free’ Enterprise Economics
3rd 9 Weeks
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
JANUARY
5-A
STUDENT
HOLIDAY
Intro to Economics
Read and define key
terms in Ch. 1. Read
pp. 2-19
11-A
Survival Activity.
Types of Economies.
Economic Goals
Read pp. 50-71
Define key terms Ch
2
18
12-B
HOLIDAY FOR
FACULTY AND
STUDENTS
Financial Peace,
Super Savers!
Worksheet and
Video.
25- A
Begin Unit 2: Intro
Demand. Demand
Activity.
Determinants of
Demand. Read pp
78-89
26- B
27- A
Quiz-Demand
Shifting the Demand
Curve, Practice with
Graphing
What Causes Define
key terms Ch 4
28- B
29- A
Intro to Supply.
Invent a product,
present to Class.
Determinants of
Supply Define key
terms Ch 5
FEBRUARY 1-B
2nd - A
Market Equilibrium.
How markets
determine prices.
More practice
graphing. Define Key
Terms Ch 6
3rd - B
4th - A
Review S&D
Price Floors, Price
Ceilings. White
Board Activity
5th- B
8th - A
Economics Baseball
4 Different Market
Structures. Define
Key Terms Ch 7
9th - B
10th - A
11TH - B
12TH - A
15th
16th - B
19-A
6-B
7-A
Factors of
Production. PPF
Activity, Opportunity
Cost. Read pp. 25-39
8-B
13-A
Public Goods Activity.
Poverty and Welfare.
Define Key Terms Ch
3.
14-B
15
20- B
21- A
STUDENT
HOLIDAY
Review and Test
Unit 1: Ch 1-3.
Define SMG Terms
MONOPOLY!
Group Work—Market
Structures
17th – A
18th - B
19th-A
Intro Unit 3:
Business
Organizations Define
Key Terms Ch 8
REVIEW & Test Unit
2: Chapters 4-7
HOLIDAY
22- B
22-B
23-A
Computer Lab—Mini
Project
Work on SMG
Define Key Terms Ch
9
24-B
25- A
Labor Market, Labor
Unions, Minimum
Wage.
26 B
MARCH 1-A
REVISIT CIRCULAR
FLOW. LABOR
MARKETS.
2-B
3-A
Test Unit 3:
Chapters 8,9
Update SMG
Portfolio
4-B
5-A
GUEST SPEAKER
OR SMG
8-B
9-A
10-B
11-A
Financial Peace,
UNDERSTANDING
INVESTMENTS!
Worksheet and
Video.
12-B
END 3RD 9 WEEKS
SPRING BREAK
SPRING 2010 ‘Free’ Enterprise Economics
4TH 9 weeks
Monday
MARCH 22
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
23-A
What is Money?
Recollections of Pine
Gulch. Quiz
Define Key Terms
Ch. 10
24-B
25-A
Characteristics and
Functions of Money.
History of Banking.
Define Key Terms
Chapter 11
26-B
29-A
Saving vs. Investing.
What is a bond?
Read pp 242-267
30-B
31-A
SMG QUIZ &
COMPUTER LAB
APRIL 1-B
2
5-A
Test Unit 4:
Chapters 10,11
Continue to Track
SMG Investments
6-B
7- A
8- B
9- A
Circular Flow Activity.
Define Key Terms
Chapter 12
12- B
13 - A
Business Cycle.
Productivity Activity.
Read pp 330-351
14- B
15- A
Unemployment
Inflation
Define Key Terms Ch
13
16 - B
19- A
Computer Lab Data
Research.
Understanding
Macro Indicators
20- B
21 - A
22- B
23
26-A
Taxes and
Government
Spending. Intro
Fiscal Policy. Define
Key Terms Ch 14
27-B
Test Unit 5, Ch 1213. Continue to
Chart Stocks and
keep up with SMG
Portfolio
28-A
MAY 3-B
4- A
Monetary Policy. The
Fed in Plain English
5-B
10- A
Review Monetary vs.
Fiscal Policy
Test Unit 6 Ch 1415
11-B
12- A
Why do we trade?
Activity. Introduce
WTO Assignment
Define Key Terms Ch
17
13 - B
14- A
FOREIGN TRADE
AND CURRENCY
ACTIVITY
17- B
18- A
19-B
20-A
21-B
HOLIDAY
How is our economy
doing? Macro
indicators. GDP.
Read 301-325
HOLIDAY
29-B
30-A
FED CHAIRMAN
GAME
6-A
7-B
File your taxes!
Computer Lab
Define Key Terms Ch
15
I.O.U.S.A.
WTO Project
Computer Lab
24-A
THE GODS MUST
BE CRAZY
HOLIDAY
25-B
Present WTO
Projects to Class
26-A
5-YEAR LETTERS
COURSE
EVALUATIONS
27-B
28-A
REVIEW
31
JUNE 1
2
3
4
HOLIDAY
FINAL EXAMS
FINAL EXAMS
FINAL EXAMS
TEACHER
WORKDAY