Dynamic Integrated Climate Change Model (DICE) part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Simulations:Examples
Betty Blecha, San Francisco State University
The Dynamic Integrated Climate Change (DICE) model assumes a single world producer must chose levels for three simultaneously determined variables: current consumption, investment, and greenhouse gases reduction. ...

Hobson's Choice: A Game Simulation about Homelessness part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Simulations:Examples
Katherine Rowell, Sinclair Community College
Hobson's choice is a game about homelessness and how difficult it is to get off the streets and leave the situation of homelessness.It is a useful learning activity for helping students understand the differences between blaming the victim and structural causes of poverty.

Population Simulator part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Simulations:Examples
Katherine Rowell, Sinclair Community College
This simulation uses United Nations world population projections to simulate future population trends for the whole world or of individual countries. Students will have an opportunity to examine population trends and make predictions.

What is the opportunity cost of attending class? part of Teaching Methods:Interactive Lecture Demonstrations:Examples
Sue Stockly, Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus
Students calculate the opportunity cost of attending one class. The exercise reinforces learning about implicit, explicit and total opportunity costs.

Using Clickers to Generate Supply and Demand Curves part of Teaching Methods:Classroom Response Systems:Examples
Shelby Frost, Georgia State University
Use the clickers to generate data for demand and supply curves by asking students to give numerical values for their maximum willingness to pay for something and their minimum willingness to accept for something. Use the data generated to graph both the demand and supply curves.

Application of oral history to economics: Family Economic History part of Teaching Methods:Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching:Examples
Manijeh Sabi, The Sage Colleges
Application of Oral History to Economics: Family Economic History The assignment will connect an oral history approach to the examination of economic concepts such as opportunity cost of attending school, economic crises (inflation and unemployment, etc.), and standard of living over time. Particularly, students will interview parents, grandparents, or family members from older generations regarding the types of work they performed, economic decisions they have made, and the economic conditions while they were growing up. The project develops a student's ability to understand and integrate these concepts from a variety of perspectives and real world situation.

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.

Recycle -- or not? A case from New York City part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with the Case Method:Examples
Patrick Conway, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A case for the analysis of externalities (social costs and benefits) in the context of recycling. Drawn from a program in New York City.

Perfect Competition: A Context Rich Problem part of Teaching Methods:Context-Rich Problems:Examples
Joann Bangs, College of St. Catherine
Students find the profit-maximizing level of output for a perfectly competitive firm and check the shut-down condition for two different prices.

Understanding Macroeconomic Statistics: Country Profile Project part of Teaching Methods:Quantitative Writing:Examples
Kathleen Odell, Dominican University
This project, appropriate for principles of macro students, provides students with the opportunity to use collect and present real world data pertinent to macro concepts such as GDP, economic growth, unemployment and inflation. A short quantitative writing assignment reinforces interpretation skills.