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Unemployment and Health Insurance Coverage part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students will search for data on unemployment and health insurance coverage, mapping them and underscoring the reasons for reductions in health insurance coverage when unemployment increases.

Fertility Rate and Constant GDP per capita part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students will search for data on fertility rate and constant GDP per capita, mapping them and underscoring the reasons for lower fertility rates in richer countries.

Life Expectancy at Birth and Net Migration part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students will search for data on life expectancy at birth and net migration, mapping them and underscoring the reasons for international migration.

Single-parent Households and Percent of Population Below the Poverty Level part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students will search for data on single-parent households and percent of population below the poverty level, mapping them and underscoring the opportunity costs of single parenting.

Educational Attainment and Unemployment part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students will search for data on educational attainment and unemployment, mapping them and highlighting the relationship between human capital and employment outcomes.

Job Offers and Factors Impacting GDP part of Economics in Two-Year Colleges:Activities
This three-part activity introduces students to concepts impacting GDP and to information available at the geoFRED economic database. The importance of this information is then made personal by utilizing it to ...

The Federal Reserve Beige Book Challenge part of Economics in Two-Year Colleges:Activities
This activity requires that students get familiar with the Federal Reserve Beige Book, and utilize what they've learned about determinants of economic growth to judge which district(s) may have the greatest ...

Price Elasticity of Demand part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Teams are given a list of goods and asked to identify what they think are the most elastic and least elastic.

Nonlinear Budget Constraints part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Teams graph both linear and nonlinear budget constraints and identify optimal choices for consumers with different preferences.

The Value of Car Insurance part of Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Teams identify the factors that affect the decision to purchase car insurance.