We Buy Anything: an in-class activity demonstrating the Fed's response to the financial crisis of 2008 part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Economics at Two-Year Colleges:Activities
This role-playing activity engages students and underscores how quickly and dramatically the Federal Reserve System responded to the financial crisis of 2008.

Monopoly gas station part of Examples
Students predict then calculate and graph profit-maximizing the price for an isolated, desert monopoly gas station.

Understanding money: Where is most of my money? part of Examples
This activity uses an Interactive Lecture Demonstration to help students understand the definition of money in a modern economy. Starting with the common misconception that money is coins and currency, the ...

Total Revenue and Price Elasticity of Demand: ILD part of Examples
This ILD helps students to understand the relationship between total revenue and price elasticity of demand.

Which U.S. President generated the highest budget deficits? part of Examples
Students compare budget deficits and surpluses generated between 1969 and 2008 measured in nominal terms and then as a percentage of GDP.

Understanding the Term Auction Facility: an in-class activity part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Economics at Two-Year Colleges:Activities
This activity introduces students to the Federal Reserve's Term Auction Facility in order to understand how and why the Fed undertook alternative policies of monetary control in response to the Financial Crisis of 2007 – 2008.

Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns part of Examples
An ILD to help demonstrate the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns using an experiment.

Shape of the demand curve part of Examples
A classroom auction reveals reservation prices and a demand curve for an introductory economics course.

What's the best payment? part of Examples
After predicting which of two earnings streams has the highest currrent value, students use a discounted values table to compare the two earnings streams, discovering that earlier earnings has higher value and that ...

Price elasticity of demand survey part of Examples
Students survey class members to estimate the price elasticity of demand for a number of goods and services.