Paper Fans and Paper Planes: A classroom PPF example part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Classroom Experiments:Examples
This in-class exercise has students create a classroom PPF which is simple to implement in about 15-20 minutes but has lasting impacts and applications.

Cartel game part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Classroom Experiments:Examples
This is a game that puts students in a groups to interact as if they were firms in a cartel. This game will illustrate how oligopoly's are inherently unstable.

Cartel game part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Classroom Experiments:Examples
This is a game that puts students in a groups to interact as if they were firms in a cartel. This game will illustrate how oligopoly's are inherently unstable.

Paper Fans and Paper Planes: A classroom PPF example part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Classroom Experiments:Examples
This in-class exercise has students create a classroom PPF which is simple to implement in about 15-20 minutes but has lasting impacts and applications.

Marginal Utility Classroom Experiment part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Economics in Two-Year Colleges:Activities

Macro Data Quest Worksheet Exercises part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Economics at Two-Year Colleges:Activities
In a series of worksheet exercises students will examine and collect current data relating to key economic indicators that are typically discussed in a principles of macroeconomics course. By completing the hands-on worksheets covering significant components of an economy students will explore and analyze current macroeconomic conditions in a "foreign" country and make comparisons with current macro conditions in the United States and other countries.

Mapping Business Cycles using FRED graphs part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Economics at Two-Year Colleges:Activities
In this activity, students analyze the correlation among the growth rate of Real GDP, unemployment rate and inflation rate during expansions versus contractions.

Economies of scale part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
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.

Economies of scale part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Cooperative Learning:Examples
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.

Economies of scale part of Pedagogies of Engagement: Resource Collections:Cooperative Learning:Examples
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.