Saturday, March 10, 2012

Mikeroeconomics: Greek Financial Crisis Through Cartoons

Mikeroeconomics: Greek Financial Crisis Through Cartoons: A haircut is the term economists use to describe a cut in bond principal when a country renegotiates its debt.  In March, 2005, Argentina ...


About the Author: Mike Fladien is a high school Economics and Law teacher in Muscatine, Iowa. He has been called the EconHacker because he has a talent for explaining Economics concepts in a simple language that anyone can understand.
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Mikeroeconomics: Cartoons in Economic Education

Mikeroeconomics: Cartoons in Economic Education: Dr. Jim Allen, forwarded t his paper on cartooning to me. The title of the paper is, The Use of Cartoons as a Teaching Tool to Enhance Stu...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Real Balances

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Real Balances: Real money balances measure how many goods and services your share of the nation's money supply will buy. Using this information, if Juan'...



About the Author: Mike Fladien is a high school Economics and Law teacher in Muscatine, Iowa. He has been called the EconHacker because he has a talent for explaining Economics concepts in a simple language that anyone can understand.
Sunday, January 8, 2012

Mikeroeconomics: Macroeconomic Indicators -- Recession

Mikeroeconomics: Macroeconomic Indicators -- Recession: Leslie Wolfson, an extraordinary AP Economics teacher, has complied an outstanding list of weird indicators that economists can use to deter...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 10 Tools for Increasing Engagement in Online Courses

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 10 Tools for Increasing Engagement in Online Courses


Summary: The websites in this blog will help you teach with online tools.


About the Author: Mike Fladlien is an AP Economics teacher from Muscatine High School in Muscatine, IA. He is an EconEdLink.org author, and also publishes the Mikeroeconomics and iMacroeconomics VB blogs.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Liber8

Summary: Outstanding classroom activity from the St. Louis Fed.

An informative and accessible economic essay with a classroom application.  Includes the full version of the Liber8 Newsletter, plus questions for students and an answer key for classroom use. Click here.

About the Author: Mike Fladlien is an AP Economics teacher from Muscatine High School in Muscatine, IA. He is an EconEdLink.org author, and also publishes the Mikeroeconomics, and Exam Cram apps.
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Supply and Demand

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Supply and Demand: For teachers who want a worksheet on the variables that can move supply and demand, I have a Google document here . The document is 10 page...