Linda Carter

A Cooperative Learning Approach to Policy Debates (with Application to an Economics of Poverty and Discrimination Class) part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
This activity utilizes a cooperative learning approach to in-class policy debates.

Think-Pair-Share Activity for Understanding Price Controls part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
An exercise designed to facilitate understanding of the impacts of price controls on market outcomes, with a follow up exercise covering these and related concepts.

An Extended Think-Pair-Share Application: Trends in the U.S. Wage Structure part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
This activity uses a think-pair-share approach to helping students connect observations about disparate changes in the market for skilled/unskilled labor to long-run trends in wage inequality.