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 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.

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.

Aggregate Supply and Demand Selfies: Active Learning with Photo Submission part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Economics at Two-Year Colleges:Activities
In the classroom, students investigate shifts in aggregate supply and demand model. They work in groups to create large scale diagrams. Students submit photos of the impact different events have on the macroeconomy.

Marginal Utility Classroom Experiment part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Economics in 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.

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.

Application of oral history to economics: Family Economic History part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching:Examples
Application of Oral History to Economics: Family Economic History The assignment will connect an oral history approach to the examination of economic concepts such as opportunity cost of attending school, economic crises (inflation and unemployment, etc.), and standard of living over time. Particularly, students will interview parents, grandparents, or family members from older generations regarding the types of work they performed, economic decisions they have made, and the economic conditions while they were growing up. The project develops a student's ability to understand and integrate these concepts from a variety of perspectives and real world situation.

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.