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Sample JiTT WarmUps with Student Responses:
Macroeconomic Concepts
Below
are a variety of JiTT exercises covering macro economic concepts.
In many cases the exercise includes not only the JiTT
warmup question (Q) but also associated student
responses (SR) and classroom activities (CA).
The files are in Adobe Acrobat
format.
|
| Concept |
Brief
Description |
JiTT
Link |
| GDP |
Explain real
vs. nominal values
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
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| GDP |
Example from
students' lives
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
|
GDP
|
Application
of Bureau of Economic Analysis data in a future job
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| GDP |
Comparison
of GDP and Genuine Progress Indicator
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Employment |
Analysis of
Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment data
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Employment |
Analysis of
labor force participation
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Employment |
Analysis of
employment and economic growth
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Inflation |
Historical
price of gas
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Inflation |
Analysis of
current inflation rates
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Fiscal
Policy |
Policy
recommendations in a case study
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
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| Fiscal
Policy |
Using budget
simulator to recommend fiscal changes
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Fiscal
Policy |
Create
analogies for automatic and discretionary fiscal policy
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
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| Fiscal
Policy |
Analysis of
democratic and republican fiscal policy recommendations
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Money
and Banking |
Money
through the ages
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Money
and Banking |
Interview
about an individual's demand for money
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Money
and Banking |
Analysis of
impact of electronic funds transfer on money creation
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Monetary
Policy |
Identify
backgrounds of Federal Reserve Board Governors
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Monetary
Policy |
Questions
for the Federal Open Market Committee
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Monetary
Policy |
Analyze
recent Federal Open Market Committee minutes
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Monetary
Policy |
Analogies
for pushing on a string
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| Social
Security |
Analysis of
competing recommendations
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| AD/AS
model |
Analysis of
consumer spending changes
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
|
| AD/AS
model |
Analysis of
oil price shocks
|
See the JiTT
(Q, SR, CA)
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