Week Fourteen - Macroeconomics

This Week

We covered a lot this week in our unit on Macroeconomics, looking at the Federal Reserve, GDP, Unemployment, Inflation (and the Consumer Price Index), and the supply of money. More importantly, however, today is the final day of our stock market simulation! As of noon, Mr. Grieve was behind many teams, although still beating a few. Markets close at 4:00PM. Those students who end the simulation with a higher return on investment than Mr. Grieve will receive donuts, which I will pay for, because THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH!!!

Here's where we're at around noon today ~

Upcoming Week

Next week the portfolio assignment will be due on Friday. This is what students will be working on during their Plan E time on Monday (don't forget there's no school Monday, 4/20/15!). When we return, we'll finish up macroeconomics on Tuesday by looking at the Balance of Payments, then we'll have a review period on Wednesday and a test over the unit on Thursday.

After we end Macroeconomics, we'll have our final project, which is the Local Economics Podcast Project. For this project, if you're interested in helping our students out I would love for you to fill out our volunteer form here. You don't have to be an economic expert - that's the task of the student! We just want to know what you do so if they have an idea of a question they want to research (like the WPAFB, or US Military Employment, or manufacturing in Dayton, or anything really) they'll know people who work in that field who are willing to be interviewed. Honestly, the only thing that matters is if you're willing to be interviewed, as we have an actual podcast (which you can download and listen to here), so you have to be willing to let us post it online. Be sure to subscribe as well!

Please check out the project Facebook page too and 'like' us so that you'll see when your son or daughter's podcast is published.

Also, I'm excited to announce that I'll be gone (that's not why I'm excited) next Friday because my students placed 1st for the second year in a row in the annual Junior Council on World Affairs competition, so we'll be traveling to Washington DC next week!  Here's the team, wish them luck and 'like' our Facebook page if you want to follow our travels next week/weekend!

Have a great weekend!

~Mr. Grieve