Make your AP Economics exam preparation fun

1. It makes the students to actively do more with the subject than to passively watch charts, graphs and numbers. This gives a better understanding about a particular topic.
2. Students learn to apply quantitative and mathematical skills to the discipline of Economics.
3. One can better relate to the real-world & hence can remember better.
4. It equips an individual to make better decisions.

"Advanced Placement Economics: Microeconomics & Macroeconomics - Student Activities" is a series of 60 Activity based lesson plans that teaches Economics to students - from basic to advanced. Its a typical 'How-to' guide to learn economics at college level.

The program has stories from day-to-day life, Scenario based studies, Circular-flow diagrams to cover Economics concepts for college students. All the topics thoroughly prepare the students for Advanced Placement (AP) Economics exams.

Let us explore the contents that "AP Economics: Microeconomics - Student activities" & "AP Economics: Macroeconomics - Student activities" covers.

Each Unit constitutes the following:
Key Ideas that includes the definitions that will be discussed through activities. This introduces the students to concepts.
Activities follow the Key Ideas. New activities have been included to focus on tough-to-master concepts.
Multiple-choice questions to test students' understanding.

In both the AP Economics books, the study begins with basic concepts in Economics like Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, and Production possibilities curves.

Some of the important topics that are dealt with in "AP Economics: Microeconomics - Students activities" are discussions about Firm - Monopoly, Firm's Market Structure and Decision Making and the Role of Government in Economics - Goods and Services, Exclusion and Shared Consumption, Economic Efficiency, Economics of Information, Income tax etc.

Major topics covered in "AP Economics: Macroeconomics - Students activities" are Measuring Economic performance, Money, Monetary policy, Fiscal policy, International Economics etc.

All activities contain worksheets for the students which enables them to understand the concepts better.

Teachers can photocopy the worksheets for the students and distribute them for use.

1. Teachers can see that the students starting to think in Economics discussing about Monetary and Fiscal Policies.
2. Learning Economics through activities transforms the way the students study the subject and it inspires them to self-learn.