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.

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.

Penalty Kicks—A Simultaneous Move Zero-Sum Game part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Classroom Experiments:Examples
Penalty Kicks—A Simultaneous Move Zero-Sum Game is an experiment that illustrates the importance of playing randomized strategies. This experiment is appropriate for undergraduate students who have completed a basic game theory module and can be completed in 15-20 minutes.

Teaching Case: This American Life Episode 391: More is Less, 2009 part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods: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.

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.

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.