C. Lucy Malakar

Why care about industry concentration? part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students will read an article about industry concentration to gain an understanding of how it may affect them and try to convince a roommate why they should care.

What caused the housing bubble of the mid 2000s? part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
After learning about the Financial Crisis of 2008, students will debate which factor contributed most to the housing bubble and subsequent financial crisis.

Creating and interpreting a production possibilities curve part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students will read an article about how the hurricanes of September 2017 damaged crops in Georgia and use the information provided to create a production possibilities frontier. Students will use their production ...

How markets work part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students will read an article about McDonald's move to all-day breakfast and analyze the impact this will have on the market for eggs. Students will use the information provided in the article to create a ...

The price of beer and automobile fatalities: using elasticity to determine appropriate public policy part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students will use the price elasticity of demand for beer to estimate the impact of a price increase on alcohol-impaired driving fatalities and then discuss policy options to prevent them.

Game theory: externalities, the prisoner's dilemma and Nash equilibrium as seen in South Park part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
After viewing a brief segment of a South Park episode, students create a game theory matrix and apply the concepts of the Prisoner's Dilemma and Nash Equilibrium.

Understanding the Tragedy of the Commons part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Students will watch a portion of a South Park episode that illustrates the tragedy of the commons and apply the concept to a more serious situation. After viewing the video, will debate and discuss ways to prevent ...

We Buy Anything: an in-class activity demonstrating the Fed's response to the financial crisis of 2008 part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Economics in Two-Year Colleges:Activities
This role-playing activity engages students and underscores how quickly and dramatically the Federal Reserve System responded to the financial crisis of 2008.