IB Test-prep

Finish preparation for your assigned teaching unit (assigned in class on Tuesday).  You will be presenting your lesson to the class on Monday and Tuesday.  Be sure to have a presentation prepared and use any technique or tactic you feel would be most effective in reveiwing your subject.

Aid To Developing Countries?

Your assignment today is to research the International Monetary Fund and The World Bank Organization and write a brief explanation on the role of each.

Information can be found at their websites:  http://www.worldbank.org/   http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

Homework for this weekend: finish reading Chapter 29 in your book for next week.

How do you calculate inflation?

Read through the inflation information supplied at the ECB wesite linked below.  After you have read through the example of calculating inflation at the bottom of the page, check out the game, Inflation Island at this link: http://www.ecb.int/ecb/educational/inflationisland/html/index.en.html

http://www.ecb.int/ecb/educational/hicp/html/index.en.html

Inflation and Price Level

View the presentation of Inflation and Price Levels and answer the following question:  Why is unanticipated inflation good for those who borrow money (debtors) but bad for those who lend money (creditors)?

http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.reffonomics.com/TRB/chapter20/inflationembedded.swf

Weekly Article

It's Monday...and you know what that means.  Find yourself an article relating to economics, read it, understand it and evaluate it in writing as your next blog post  Be sure to include the link to the article along with one relevant picture.

Weekly Reading Assignment

It's Monday...and you know what that means.  Find yourself an article relating to economics, read it, understand it and evaluate it in writing as your next blog post  Be sure to include the link to the article along with one relevant picture.

Crisis in the Union

Read at least three of the articles available on cnn.com regarding the plight of Greece, the European Union and the Euro itself.  Then, write a three paragraph explanation of what you have learned regarding this topic.  Include links to the three articles you read and two pictures that add understanding to what you have written.