Supply and demand shifters using local examples part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Michael Levine, San Bernardino Valley College
This activity asks students to consider some common shifters of demand and supply and rank them based on what the think would have the greatest impact in the market. I specify local markets and a local branch of a ...

Does perfect competition exist? part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Michael Levine, San Bernardino Valley College
In this exercise, students will discuss the reality or perfectly competitive markets. First students will consider the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market for goods and services and discuss how ...

A Mall Divided: Who wins and loses with increases in the minimum wage. part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Michael Levine, San Bernardino Valley College
How are different stakeholders impacted by minimum wage changes? This activity instructs students to analyze as unique minimum wage situation to consider the impact on various stakeholders.

Hi Sharks - Identifying Implicit Costs and Economic Profit on Shark Tank part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Ezra Pugh, Glendale Community College
Students are asked to evaluate the Sharks' opinion of a business on Shark Tank. An entrepreneur thinks they are profitable, but they are not taking implicit costs into account. Should that be a deal breaker?

U.S. Fiscal Policy between 2002 and 2019. part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Natalia Smirnova, University of Connecticut
Based on the graph showing the United States Federal government current receipts and current expenditures from 2002 till 2016, students analyze expansionary fiscal policy implementation.

Price Ceilings and Venezuela part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Elisa Queenan, Porterville College
This activity will examine a modern instance of price ceilings and the unintended consequences for the local economy. This activity details how the well-intended goal of a government can lead to disincentivizing ...

Substitute Goods: What happens with a sugar tax? part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Angela Thurman, Tarrant County College District,
This activity will help students understand the concept of substitute goods as a part of the unit on demand and supply, Students will explore the consequences- intended and otherwise- of instituting a sugar tax.

US China Trade War - An Application of the AD/AS Model part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Ann Werboff, Northern Arizona University
In this activity, students will analyze some of the events in the US China Trade War in 2018 using the AD/AS model and discuss the implications of tariffs.

Analyze changes in equilibrium price and quantity part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
brian lynch, Lake Land College
Students evaluate the impact of changes in supply and demand on the equilibrium price and quantity.

The evolution of federal budget surpluses and deficits in the U.S. since 1970. part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Natalia Smirnova, University of Connecticut
Students analyze the United States federal budget surplus/deficit as a fraction of gross domestic product (GDP) and discuss the evolution of federal budget surpluses and deficits since 1970. Students propose ...