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A collection of activities that will be developed during the April 2009 workshop.

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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.

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 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.

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.

Introducing Students to and Creating Curiosity about learning Principles of Economics part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Economics at Two-Year Colleges:Activities
An interactive activity helping students be more comfortable with their current level of knowledge, or lack thereof, with the concepts of economics and subsequently beginning to develop a student's curiosity about how economics is relevant to them.

Marginal Utility Classroom Experiment part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Economics at 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.

Incorporating Community-Based Research in a Course on the Economics of Poverty part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Service Learning:Examples
A community-based research project in an economics of poverty course connects students to the issues that nonprofit organizations are facing in serving low-income households.

Incorporating Community-Based Research in a Course on the Economics of Poverty part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Service-Learning:Examples
A community-based research project in an economics of poverty course connects students to the issues that nonprofit organizations are facing in serving low-income households.

Incorporating Community-Based Research in a Course on the Economics of Poverty part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Service Learning:Examples
A community-based research project in an economics of poverty course connects students to the issues that nonprofit organizations are facing in serving low-income households.