Economies of scale part of Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Mark Maier, Glendale Community College
Working in groups of three, students analyze economies of scale. Each student constructs an individual short-run ATC curve, then the three students collaborate to determine if there are economies or diseconomies of scale and to create the long run ATC.

Counting GDP part of Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Mark Maier, Glendale Community College
Working in small groups, students determine how 18 items are included in GDP (or if they are excluded.) Cards turned over one at a time encourage participation by all group members.

Think-pair-share: Functions of money part of Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Julie Smith, Lafayette College
This cooperative learning activity helps students gain a deeper understanding of the three functions of money and provides practice applying those ideas to real-life items.

Think-Pair-Share Activity for Understanding Price Controls part of Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Linda Carter, Baylor University
An exercise designed to facilitate understanding of the impacts of price controls on market outcomes, with a follow up exercise covering these and related concepts.

Cooperative Learning Exercises to Teach the Gains from Trade part of Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Dan Marburger, Arkansas State University-Main Campus
This is a cooperative learning exerise that allows students to learn about comparative advantage and the gains from trade.

Using cooperative peer editing to improve writing assignments in economics part of Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Julie Smith, Lafayette College
This peer review of writing tool helps students improve their writing by asking their peers in the class to provide feedback in a constructive manner.

A Send-a-Problem Exercise for Applying Labor Force Participation Models to Popular Press Articles part of Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
KM McGoldrick, University of Richmond
Send-a-problem exercise used to link economic theory covered in a labor economics course with related trends exemplified in a popular press article.

Think-Pair-Share: Analyzing changes in supply & demand and predicting impacts on equilibrium part of Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
KM McGoldrick, University of Richmond
An exercise designed to facilitate understanding of supply and demand shifts as well as impacts on market outcomes with follow up exercises covering these and related concepts.

Where Do I Begin? Using Think-Pair-Share to Initiate the Problem Solving Process part of Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
KM McGoldrick, University of Richmond
This exercise uses the Think-Pair-Share technique to initiate the problem-solving process. It focuses on a common first step in economic problem solving: identifying relevant and irrelevant information.

Exploring and Explaining Determinants of Supply and Demand: Utilizing the Think-Pair-Share Technique part of Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Jennifer Rhoads, University of Illinois at Chicago
This is a two-part activity that implements an extension of the "think-pair-share" cooperative learning technique to study the determinants of supply and demand through hypothetical and real world examples.