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.

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

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.

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.

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. -

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.

Understanding Macroeconomic Statistics: Country Profile Project part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Quantitative Writing:Examples
This project, appropriate for principles of macro students, provides students with the opportunity to use collect and present real world data pertinent to macro concepts such as GDP, economic growth, unemployment and inflation. A short quantitative writing assignment reinforces interpretation skills.

Understanding Macroeconomic Statistics: Country Profile Project part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Quantitative Writing:Examples
This project, appropriate for principles of macro students, provides students with the opportunity to use collect and present real world data pertinent to macro concepts such as GDP, economic growth, unemployment and inflation. A short quantitative writing assignment reinforces interpretation skills.