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.

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.

An Interactive Introduction to Randomized Control Trials part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Classroom Experiments:Examples
This activity provides a classroom impact evaluation exercise that serves as an introduction to the primary investigative tool of current Development economics.

An Interactive Introduction to Randomized Control Trials part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Classroom Experiments:Examples
This activity provides a classroom impact evaluation exercise that serves as an introduction to the primary investigative tool of current Development economics.

Monopoly gas station part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lecture Demonstrations:Examples
Students predict then calculate and graph profit-maximizing the price for an isolated, desert monopoly gas station. -

Using Cooperative Peer Editing to Develop Effective Economic Research Questions part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Students engage in peer editing and cooperative discussion to enhance research questions based on criteria designed to generate effective economic research questions. -

Teaching Case: This American Life Episode 391: More is Less, 2009 part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Classroom Experiments:Examples
This case study is based on NPR's This American Life Episode 391: More is Less, which originally aired in 2009. The story highlights the role health care providers, patients, and health insurance companies play in driving up the cost of care.

Monetary Policy and the FOMC part of Pedagogies of Engagement: Resource Collections:Just in Time Teaching:Examples
Describing and analyzing monetary policy from FOMC press releases.