Pixar Animation Studios has produced many beloved films with economic content that are remembered fondly by most K-12 students. We hope that instructors in the K-12 […]
This paper introduces a competitive seat market trade experiment for classroom use. The competitive seat market endows each student with a randomly assigned seat in which […]
This paper describes a class competition that introduces students to the concept of effective altruism and metrics used to evaluate the effectiveness of charities. A well-established […]
The literature on economics teaching has been advocating a pedagogical shift away from the traditional “chalk and talk” for more than two decades. One suggestion is […]
The many facets of the Keynesian model can seem daunting for students in a Principles of Macroeconomics class. This article provides a classroom activity that engages […]
While this may appear to be a good opportunity to bring real-life examples into the classroom and show how economics applies during a global pandemic, we […]
Over the past decade, there has been a rapid rise in the U.S. federal debt, exacerbated by increased federal spending and lowered federal taxes. These policy […]
Entering the 2019–2020 academic year, my Principles of Microeconomics and Principles of Macroeconomics classes incorporated the science of learning in a face-to-face format. These classes had […]
We describe Presentations to the President (PTP), an active learning strategy for a Macroeconomic Principles course in which students take on the role of academic advisors […]
An invention activity is a teaching technique that involves giving students a difficult substantive problem that cannot be readily solved with any methods they have already […]
