No Scarcity of Resources for AP Macroeconomics Webinar Recordings
In this recorded webinar series, the St. Louis Fed's economic education team and veteran instructors discuss resources, best practices and tips for teaching AP Macroeconomics. Each interactive, one-hour session focuses on one unit of the AP Macro curriculum.
AP Macro LIVE Review for Students 2024
Related: View webinar recordings and resources from the No Scarcity of Resources for AP Microeconomics Webinars.
Expand each section below to view a webinar recording and the resources highlighted during the webinar.
Webinar Recording
Scarcity
- Video: Explore Economics Video Series—Scarcity
- Lesson Plan: PACED Pretzels (PDF)
Production Possibilities Curve
- Lesson Plan: Production Possibilities
- Video: Economic Lowdown Video Series—Production Possibilities Frontier, Segment 1; Production Possibilities Frontier, Segment 2; Production Possibilities Frontier, Segment 3
Comparative Advantage
- Lesson Plan: Comparative Advantage
- Econ Lowdown Module: Jack of All Trades—Comparative Advantage
- Video: How Trade Helps Each Side
Marginal Analysis
- Tool for Review: AP Macroeconomics Entrance and Exit Tickets
- Tool for Review: AP Microeconomics Entrance and Exit Tickets
- Lesson Plan: Saving the Environment with Economic Ideas—Lesson 3: Marginal Analysis: How Clean Is Clean Enough?
Additional Resources
- Check out Econ Lowdown for more resources that can be assigned to students through the portal, including premade syllabi for various macroeconomics and microeconomics units.
- Page One Economics® articles aligned with the AP Macroeconomics curriculum
- Page One Economics® articles aligned with the AP Microeconomics curriculum
- Classroom Resources to Teach AP Macroeconomics
Released FRQs
Webinar Recording
The Circular Flow
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
- Lesson Plan: The GDP Expenditures Equation: What Is GDP and How Do We Measure It?
- Lesson Plan: The Castaways Discover GDP Lesson for Grades 6-9
- Video: GDP and Pizza Video Explainers
- Econ Lowdown Module: GDP and Pizza Short Modules
- Video: Economic Lowdown Video Series—Gross Domestic Product
Unemployment
- Video: Economic Lowdown Video Series—Unemployment
- Video: Fed Explained—The Unemployment Rate
- Econ Lowdown Module: Unemployment Short Modules
- Lesson: How Do We Measure Unemployment?
Price Indexes and Inflation
- Lesson Plan: Teaching about Money, Spending and Inflation Using a Classroom Inflation Auction
- Video: Economic Lowdown Video Series—Inflation
- Podcast: Planet Money: The Relationship between Unemployment and Inflation
- Video: The Federal Reserve and You: Chapter 3—Inflation
Business Cycles
- Podcast: Economic Lowdown Audio Series—The Business Cycle
- Article: Jargon Alert: Business Cycles
- Econ Lowdown Module: Economic Growth
Additional Resources
- Check out Econ Lowdown for more resources that can be assigned to students through the portal, including premade syllabi for various macroeconomics and microeconomics units.
- Page One Economics® articles aligned with the AP Macroeconomics curriculum
- Page One Economics® articles aligned with the AP Microeconomics curriculum
- Classroom Resources to Teach AP Macroeconomics
- Tool for Review: AP Macroeconomics Entrance and Exit Tickets
- Tool for Review: AP Microeconomics Entrance and Exit Tickets
Released FRQs
Webinar Recording
Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
- Econ Lowdown Module: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply—Positive Demand Shocks
- Econ Lowdown Module: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply—Negative Demand Shocks
- Econ Lowdown Module: Long-Run Equilibrium
- Video: Fed FAQ: What Is Aggregate Demand?
Fiscal Policy
- Econ Lowdown Module: Fiscal Policy—Tools for Influencing the Economy
- Econ Lowdown Module: Fiscal Policy—The Basics of Taxation and Government Spending
- Podcast: Economic Lowdown Audio Series—Fiscal Policy
- In-Class Lesson: The Fiscal Ship
Automatic Stabilizers
Additional Resources
- Check out Econ Lowdown for more resources that can be assigned to students through the portal, including premade syllabi for various macroeconomics and microeconomics units.
- Page One Economics® articles aligned with the AP Macroeconomics curriculum
- Page One Economics® articles aligned with the AP Microeconomics curriculum
- Classroom Resources to Teach AP Macroeconomics
- Tool for Review: AP Macroeconomics Entrance and Exit Tickets
- Tool for Review: AP Microeconomics Entrance and Exit Tickets
Released FRQs
Webinar Recording
Monetary Policy
- Article: Teaching the New Tools of Monetary Policy Resource Page
- Video: Monetary Policy Econ Lowdown Series
- Classroom Activity: How Fed Policy Transmits to the Economy
Ample Reserves
- Lecture Guide: How the Federal Reserve Implements Monetary Policy
- Page One Economics®: How Does the Fed Use Its Monetary Policy to Influence the Economy?
- Article: Why Are Banks Holding So Many Excess Reserves? (PDF)
The Loanable Funds Market
- Lesson: Crowding Out
Additional Resources
- Check out Econ Lowdown for more resources that can be assigned to students through the portal, including premade syllabi for various macroeconomics and microeconomics units.
- Page One Economics® articles aligned with the AP Macroeconomics curriculum
- Page One Economics® articles aligned with the AP Microeconomics curriculum
- Classroom Resources to Teach AP Macroeconomics
- Tool for Review: AP Macroeconomics Entrance and Exit Tickets
- Tool for Review: AP Microeconomics Entrance and Exit Tickets
Released FRQs
Webinar Recording
Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Short Run
- Resource Page: Teaching the New Tools of Monetary Policy
- Econ Lowdown Modules: Fiscal Policy
- Lesson Plan: Removing the “Punch Bowl”: Inflation and the Federal Reserve’s Use of Contractionary Monetary Policy
- Classroom Activity: How Fed Policy Transmits to the Economy
- Econ Lowdown Syllabus: AP Macro Unit 5 Long-Run Consequences of Stabilization Policies
Phillips Curve
- Page One Economics®: Inflation Expectations, the Phillips Curve, and the Fed's Dual Mandate
- Podcast: Planet Money: “The Relationship between Unemployment and Inflation”
Money, Growth and Inflation
Government Deficits and the National Debt
- Econ Lowdown Module: Government Budgets
- Podcast: Planet Money: Paying Off the National Debt
Crowding Out
- Lesson Plan: Crowding Out
Economic Growth
- Econ Lowdown Module: Economic Growth
- Page One Economics®: What Are the “Ingredients” for Economic Growth?
Additional Resources
- Check out Econ Lowdown for more resources that can be assigned to students through the portal, including premade syllabi for various macroeconomics and microeconomics units.
- Page One Economics® articles aligned with the AP Macroeconomics curriculum
- Page One Economics® articles aligned with the AP Microeconomics curriculum
- Classroom Resources to Teach AP Macroeconomics
- Tool for Review: AP Macroeconomics Entrance and Exit Tickets
- Tool for Review: AP Microeconomics Entrance and Exit Tickets
Released FRQs
Webinar Recording
- Page One Economics®: International Trade—Making Sense of the Trade Deficit
- Page One Economics®: Is a Strong Dollar Better than a Weak Dollar?
Final Exam Review/AP Exam Test Prep
- AP Macro Shower Curtain Project
- Test Question Enhancement/Correction Form
- FRQ Practice
- FRQs Aligned by Unit
- FRQs Aligned by Unit Scoring Guide
- Practice Exam Tracker Spreadsheet
Additional Resources
- Check out Econ Lowdown for more resources that can be assigned to students through the portal, including premade syllabi for various macroeconomics and microeconomics units.
- Page One Economics® articles aligned with the AP Macroeconomics curriculum
- Page One Economics® articles aligned with the AP Microeconomics curriculum
- Classroom Resources to Teach AP Macroeconomics
- Tool for Review: AP Macroeconomics Entrance and Exit Tickets
- Tool for Review: AP Microeconomics Entrance and Exit Tickets
Released FRQs
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