Title: AP Macro Units 1 - 6 Sample Syllabus

AP Macro Sample Syllabus
  Syllabus Overview
Section 1.1: Scarcity
  Choices Are Everywhere: Why Can't We Just Have It All?
  Economic Lowdown: Episode 8—Production Possibilities Frontier, Segment 1
  Planet Money: Improving the Absenteeism Rate at Work
Section 1.2: Opportunity Cost and Production Possibilities Curve (PPC)
  1.2 Production Possibilities Frontier/Curve (Teacher Only)
  Economic Lowdown Audio Series: Episode 1—Opportunity Cost
  Money and Missed Opportunities
  Opportunity Cost
  Economic Lowdown: Episode 8—Production Possibilities Frontier, Segment 2
  Economic Lowdown: Episode 8—Production Possibilities Frontier, Segment 3
  Jack of All Trades: Production Possibilities Frontier
Section 1.3: Comparative Advantage and Gains from Trade
  1.3 Comparative Advantage and Gains from Trade (Teacher Only)
  Does International Trade Create Winners and Losers?
  International Trade: Making Sense of the Trade Deficit
  Jack of All Trades: Comparative Advantage
  Jack of All Trades: Advanced Specialization
  Jack of All Trades: Benefits of Trade
  The Global Economy: It's a Small World After All
  Planet Money: The Cheapest Place to Make a T-Shirt
Section 1.4: Demand
  Demand
  Economic Lowdown Audio Series: Episode 6—Demand
  Economic Lowdown: Episode 2—Demand
  Planet Money: Organ Transplant Allocation
Section 1.5: Supply
  EconLowdown: Supply
  Economic Lowdown Audio Series: Episode 7—Supply
  Economic Lowdown: Episode 1—Supply
Section 1.6: Market Equilibrium, Disequilibrium and Changes in Equilibrium
  Market Equilibrium
  Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor?
  EconLowdown Video Series: Equilibrium
  Planet Money: The Price of a Hermes Bag
  Page One: The Science of Supply & Demand
Section 2.1: Circular Flow and GDP
  2.1 Circular Flow and GDP - FRED Activities for AP Macro TEACHER ONLY
  Economic Lowdown: Episode 6—Circular Flow
  GDP: What is it?
  Classroom Economist: Measuring GDP
  GDP: Measurement and Growth
  GDP: Policy
  GDP & Pizza Video Series: Definition of GDP
  GDP & Pizza Video Series: Components of GDP
  GDP & Pizza Video Series: Measuring Exports
Section 2.2: Limitations on GDP
  Classroom Economist: What is GDP?
  How Do Imports Affect GDP?
  GDP: Does It Measure Up?
Section 2.3: Unemployment
  2.3 Unemployment FRED Activites for AP Macro TEACHER ONLY
  Consequences of Unemployment
  Economic Lowdown Audio Series: Episode 5—Unemployment
  Economic Lowdown Video Series: Episode 10—Unemployment
  Education vs. Unemployment
  Fed Explained: Episode 3 — The Unemployment Rate
  Making Sense of Unemployment Data
  Measuring Unemployment
  Types of Unemployment
  Jargon Alert: Full Employment
  Why Scarce Resources Are Sometimes Unemployed
Section 2.4: Prices Indices and Inflation
  2.4 Price and Inflation FRED Activites for AP Macro TEACHER ONLY
  2.4. Price Indices and Inflation Activities, Whiteboard, PPTs TEACHER ONLY
  What's in Your Market Basket? Why Your Inflation Rate Might Differ from the Average
  Inflation
  Making Sense of the Ups and Downs of Prices
  Prices: The Marketplace's Communication System
  Fed FAQ: What is Inflation?
  Money and Inflation: A Functional Relationship
Section 2.5: Costs of Inflation
  Fed Explained: Episode 1 — Inflation
  Great Inflation
  Purchasing Power
  Page One: Adjusting for Inflation
Section 2.6: Real v. Nominal GDP
  GDP & Pizza Video Series: Real vs. Nominal GDP
Section 2.7: Business Cycles
  Classroom Economist: The Business Cycle
  Economic Lowdown Audio Series: Episode 18—The Business Cycle
  Jargon Alert: Business Cycles
  Page One: Minding the Output Gap
  Page One: All About the Business Cycle
Section 3.1: Aggregate Demand
  Fed FAQ: What is Aggregate Demand?
  Aggregate Demand/Supply: Negative Shocks
  Aggregate Demand/Supply: Positive Shocks
Section 3.2: Multipliers
Section 3.3: Short-Run Aggregate Supply
Section 3.4: Long-Run Aggregate Supply
Section 3.5: Equilibrium in the Aggregate Demand-Aggregate Supply (AD-AS) Model
  Long-Run Equilibrium
Section 3.6: Changes in the AD-AS Model in the Short Run
Section 3.7: Long Run Self-Adjustment
  Falling Oil Prices Create Winners and Losers
  GDP & Pizza Video Series: Trend Growth
3.8 Fiscal Policy
  Fiscal Policy: Tools for Influencing the Economy
  Fiscal Policy: The Basics of Taxation and Government Spending
  Individual Income Tax: The Basics and New Changes
  Planet Money: Public Goods & Government Spending
3.9 Automatic Stabilizers
  GDP & Pizza Video Series: Automatic Stabilizers
Section 4.1: Financial Assets
  Capital Markets
  No-Frills Money Skills: Episode 4—Understanding Bonds
  No-Frills Money Skills: Episode 3—Get into Stocks
  No-Frills Money Skills: Episode 5—Mutual Benefit
  Financing Businesses and Public Projects with Stocks and Bonds
  Bitcoin: Money or Financial Investment
  Stock Market Strategies: Are You an Active or Passive Investor?
  Understanding Capital Markets—High School and College
Section 4.2: Nominal v. Real Interest Rates
  Economic Lowdown Audio Series: Episode 14—Getting Real about Interest Rates
  Fed FAQs: Interest Rates
Section 4.3: Definition, Measurement, and Functions of Money
  Explore Economics: What Makes Something Useful as Money?
  Classroom Economist: What is Money?
  Timely Topics Video: Benefits of a Fiat Money System
  Economic Lowdown Audio Series: Episode 9—Functions of Money
  U.S. Currency: Does the Fed Print Money?
  Planet Money: The Island of Stone Money
  Would a Gold Standard Brighten Economic Outcomes?
Section 4.4: Banking and the Expansion of the Money Supply
  Classroom Economist: Historical Background of Fractional Reserve Banking
Section 4.5: The Money Market
  4.5 Money - FRED Activity TEACHER ONLY
Section 4.6: Monetary Policy
  4.6 Monetary Policy TEACHER ONLY
  In Plain English: Making Sense of the Fed
  Independence, Accountability, and the Federal Reserve System
  The Fed's New Monetary Policy Tools
  How Does the Fed Use Its Monetary Policy Tools to Influence the Economy?
  Econ Lowdown Video Series--Monetary Policy Part 1: The Fed and the Dual Mandate
  Econ Lowdown Video Series--Monetary Policy Part 2: Two Important Interest Rates in Monetary Policy Implementation
  Econ Lowdown Video Series--Monetary Policy Part 3: Reservation Rate and Arbitrage
  Econ Lowdown Video Series--Monetary Policy Part 4: The Fed in Action
  A New Frontier: Monetary Policy with Ample Reserves
  Economic Lowdown Audio Series: Episode 20—Monetary Policy
  Fed Explained: Episode 4—The Central Bank
  Fed Explained: Episode 5—Regional Banks
  FREDBlog: Monetary Policy Tools Today Paying Interest on all Those Reserves
  Fed Functions: Conducting Monetary Policy
  Page One: How Main Street is Represented in Monetary Policy
  You Don't Have To Be an Economist To Understand a FOMC Statement
Section 4.7: The Loanable Funds Market
  Making Sense of Private Debt
  Should We Fear the Inverted Yield Curve?
Section 5.1: Fiscal and Monetary Policy Actions in the Short Run
Section 5.2: The Phillips Curve
  5.2 The Phillips Curve TEACHER ONLY-2
  Inflation Expectations, the Phillips Curve, & the Fed's Dual Mandate
  Planet Money: The Relationship between Unemployment & Inflation
Section 5.3: Money Growth and Inflation
  Feducation: Episode 1—Money and Inflation
  Money and Inflation: A Functional Relationship
Section 5.4: Government Deficits and the National Debt
  Making Sense of the National Debt
  Planet Money: Paying off the National Debt
Section 5.5: Crowding Out
  5.5 Crowding Out TEACHER ONLY-2
Section 5.6: Economic Growth
  Economic Growth
  Economic Lowdown Audio Series: Episode 15—Economic Growth
  Raising the Speed Limit on Future Growth
  The Productivity Puzzle
  What Are the "Ingredients" for Economic Growth?
  What is Productivity?
Section 5.7: Public Policy and Economic Growth
  Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor?
  Will Robots Take Our Jobs?
Section 6.1: Balance of Payments Accounts
  International Trade: Making Sense of the Trade Deficit
Section 6.2: Exchange Rates
  6.2 Exchange Rates Active Lesson TEACHER ONLY
  Currency Crusaders of Justice
  Is a Strong Dollar Better than a Weak Dollar?
Section 6.3 The Foreign Exchange Market
Section 6.4: Effect of Changes in Policies & Economic Conditions on Foreign Exchange
  Trading Hurdles TEACHER ONLY
Section 6.5: Changes in Foreign Exchange Market and Net Exports
Section 6.6: Real Interest Rates & International Capital Flows