Browse Activities
Submitted for the Workshop
There are duplicates on this list. Don't worry about that....A collection of activities that will be developed during the April 2009 workshop.
Pedagogy
- Assessment 6 matches
- Class Response Systems 14 matches
- Context-Rich Problems 54 matches
- Cooperative Learning 79 matches
- Course Design 14 matches
- Demonstrations 35 matches
- In-class Problems 2 matches
- Interactive Lectures 20 matches
- Just in Time Teaching 28 matches
- Lecture 58 matches
- Problem Solving -DONTUSE 76 matches
- Projects 63 matches
- Quantitative Literacy 9 matches
- Quantitative Reasoning 60 matches
- Quantitative Writing 30 matches
- Role Playing 6 matches
- Service Learning 21 matches
- Simulation of Data 16 matches
- Simulations and Games 16 matches
- Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum 6 matches
- Student Research 42 matches
- Teaching Communication 38 matches
- Teaching Geoscience with Literature 3 matches
- Teaching with Cases 14 matches
- Teaching with Data 22 matches
- Writing 38 matches
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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 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.
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.
Marginal Utility Classroom Experiment part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Economics in Two-Year Colleges:Activities
Demonstrating discount rates with a reverse auction of presentation dates part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Classroom Experiments:Examples
In this reverse auction of assignment delivery dates, student groups submit their "offers" for taking different dates. The groups complete an exercise using their offers to calculate a simple discount rate for future effort, which can be tied to a discussion of the economics of climate change.
Demonstrating discount rates with a reverse auction of presentation dates part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Classroom Experiments:Examples
In this reverse auction of assignment delivery dates, student groups submit their "offers" for taking different dates. The groups complete an exercise using their offers to calculate a simple discount rate for future effort, which can be tied to a discussion of the economics of climate change.
Mapping Business Cycles using FRED graphs part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Economics at Two-Year Colleges:Activities
In this activity, students analyze the correlation among the growth rate of Real GDP, unemployment rate and inflation rate during expansions versus contractions.
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.