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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Impact of federal deficits part of Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Mark Maier, Glendale Community College
Based on a fable about government debt, students identify the relevance of crowding out, monetizing a debt, external debt, and stimulus spending.

An Extended Think-Pair-Share Application: Trends in the U.S. Wage Structure part of Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Linda Carter, Baylor University
This activity uses a think-pair-share approach to helping students connect observations about disparate changes in the market for skilled/unskilled labor to long-run trends in wage inequality.

Using Note-Taking Pairs to Enhance Understanding of Difficult Concepts (such as Income and Substitution Effects) part of Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
KM McGoldrick, University of Richmond
A variation of the think-pair-share technique is used to reinforce understanding of the income and substitution effects associated with a price change.