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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
Results 1 - 10 of 474 matches
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.
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.
Marginal Utility Classroom Experiment part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Economics in Two-Year Colleges:Activities
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 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.
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.
Incorporating Community-Based Research in a Course on the Economics of Poverty part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods: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.
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.