I taught AP Economics to high school students through the Academic Talent Development Program, a summer program for gifted and talented students offered through UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Education, in the summers of 2014 and 2016. I have posted my course materials from the most recent summer.
Logistics:
Schedule and Course Materials:
- Day 0 - Introduction to Economics
- Day 1 - Supply and Demand
- Day 2 - Elasticity, Surplus, and Welfare
- Day 3 - Utility Maximization, Cost Minimization, and Cost Curves
- Day 4 - Markets, Perfect Competition, and Monopolies
- Day 5 - Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, Game Theory, and Factor Markets
- Day 6 - Market Failure
- Day 7 - International Trade and Inequality
- Day 8 - Exam
- Day 9 - Intro to Macro, GDP, and Inflation
- Day 10 - Unemployment, Business Cycles, the Multiplier Effect, and Aggregate Expenditures
- Day 11 - Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, and the Phillips Curve
- Day 12 - Financial Markets, the Federal Reserve, and the Money Market
- Day 13 - Loanable Funds Market, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, and Growth
- Day 14 - International Trade
- Day 15 - More International Topics, Growth, and Development
- Day 16 - Personal Finance
- Day 17 - Exam
- Day 18 - Final Presentations
Term Projects: