Highlights for High School

Have some summer fun - try some cool chemistry or physics experiments!

Recrystallize a mothball, synthesize ferrocene, measure magnetic fields, or calibrate an electrical temperature sensor.

You can try any or all of these experiments, but don't forget: these experiments require high levels of safety and special equipment, and so please proceed with caution!

Find out how at Highlights for High School

Current Events in Context: The Global Financial Crisis

Photo courtesy of Jan Brasna.

The ripple effects of the global financial crisis continue to touch everyday life.

Severe losses in the job and stock markets, difficulties in securing credit and loans, and declines in currency values and spending are factors in the current state of the global economy.

The following OCW courses offer background on how the global economy works:

Economics

• 14.01 Principles of Microeconomics, Fall 2007
• 14.02 Principles of Macroeconomics, Fall 2004
• 14.452 Economic Growth, Fall 2008
• 14.54 International Trade, Fall 2006
• 14.662 Labor Economics II, Spring 2007

Management

• 15.010 Economic Analysis for Business Decisions, Fall 2004
• 15.014 Applied Macro- and International Economics, Spring 2004
• 15.615 Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager, Spring 2003
• 15.677J Urban Labor Markets and Employment Policy, Spring 2005

Political Science

• 17.125 The Politics of Global Financial Relations, Fall 2007
• 17.148 Political Economy of Globalization, Spring 2006
• 17.196 Globalization, Fall 2005
• 17.199J Working in a Global Economy, Fall 2005
• 17.424 International Political Economy of Advanced Industrial Societies, Spring 2007

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