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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 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.

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.

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

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.

Counting GDP part of Pedagogies of Engagement: Resource Collections:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Working in small groups, students determine how 18 items are included in GDP (or if they are excluded.) Cards turned over one at a time encourage participation by all group members.

Counting GDP part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Working in small groups, students determine how 18 items are included in GDP (or if they are excluded.) Cards turned over one at a time encourage participation by all group members.

Counting GDP part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Working in small groups, students determine how 18 items are included in GDP (or if they are excluded.) Cards turned over one at a time encourage participation by all group members.

Counting GDP part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Working in small groups, students determine how 18 items are included in GDP (or if they are excluded.) Cards turned over one at a time encourage participation by all group members. -