http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Thu, 23 May 2013 08:47:50 PDT Thu, 23 May 2013 08:47:50 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90456 This is a simple lesson plan to introduce the time value of money. Topics covered include opportunity cost, compound interest and simple interest. The student version also includes a chart which students complete to determine how long it takes to double their money. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=81362 This Bized site provides a lesson plan based around the topic of genetically modified crops and the issue of market failure. Lesson objectives are provided as well as PowerPoint slides, a mind map, and an activity sheet that includes key issue questions and links to other resources. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=594986 Electric Money is a 2-part series produced for PBS by Oregon Public Broadcasting that explores how the digital revolution has completely transformed virtually every sort of financial activity over the last fifty years. The series was originally broadcast on October 3,2001. The site has very interesting content on how money revolved from before computers to the e-money revolution. Included are five interdisciplinary teaching units with lesson plans correlated to the national standards, along with a variety of discussion questions and interactive activities designed to get your students thinking about the impact of all sorts of financial transactions. Each of the following units is available in Adobe Acrobat format. It is based on the video produced by the station, and which can be ordered, and or the teaching guides can be adapted based on the content provided. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=315191 The Virtual Learning Arcade is a series of models and simulations on various economics and business topics. Each simulation has a range of supporting materials including interactive worksheets, theoretical explanations and multiple choice questions. This simulation is based on the cross price elasticity of demand. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90079 This website is The Conference Board Business Cycle Indicator page. Students can access information regarding the Leading Economic Indicators (LEIs). http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=75462 This is an interactive game from the publishers of the Mankiw economics textbook which allows the student to take the role of American President, setting rates of taxes and government spending and viewing the effects on a variety of indicators with a view to maximising the macroeconomic performance of the economy. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=395330 Interactive technical note where students can learn how to draft a balance of payments and learn how it works. This is structured in three dynamics with very different objectives. The first two focus on an orderly or systematic drafting of a balance of payments, defining its structure and assigning a place to each item and the corresponding items to each sub-balance. There are also exercises with some simple questions to test the students´ understanding of the measurement and interpretation of a balance of payments and there are some practical applications of using a balance of payments as an instrument for economic analysis. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=364726 Description Interactive technical note that enables students to see the effect of changes in the economic variables that are part of aggregate demand.The purpose is to enable students to learn and comprehend the cause-effect relation in the short-term between the economic variables that make up an economys aggregate demand. There are a number of interactive exercises that enable students to understand how the aggregate demand curve works; the answers can be checked against the graphic. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=395354 Interactive technical note that enables students to see the effect of changes in monetary and fiscal aggregate demand policies on the adjustment of the goods and services and asset markets. The main purpose of this tool is to enable students to observe the main two-way effects, in the short and medium term, of monetary and fiscal aggregate demand policies on the overall adjustment of both sides of the economy (real and monetary). The tool assumes that students have already studied the concepts underlying the adjustment processes of the goods and services market and the asset market. For a better understanding of the main effects of monetary and fiscal policies on the overall adjustment of both markets, this graphic resource does not envisage simultaneous execution of both policies nor their effects on capital movements and exchange rates. The tool also contains some simple exercises that enable students to contrast their answers by using the interactive graph. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76868 This is an online macroeconomics textbook that includes the following general topics: The Determinants of Economic Growth, The Measurement of Macroeconomic Variables, Aggregate Demand and the Goods Market, gregate Demand and Financial Markets, and a Closer look at the Supply Side and Potential Output. Each of these has several sub-topics which include lecture material, tables and interactive graphs.