The official CPI and bias part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
This activity aims for students to gain insights about the problems in measuring a price index.

Using the Mississippi River Watershed Module in Introduction to Environmental Economics part of BASICS:Teaching Materials:The Wicked Problem of Water Quality in the Mississippi River Watershed:Instructor Stories
This course offers an overview of economic analyses of environmental issues like pollution and resource management for non-majors. Students will receive an introduction to marginal thinking, market-based solutions, valuation techniques, and government intervention, with a focus on current issues and applying economics in an interdisciplinary manner to other environmental fields.

Macrosimulation: What to do in stagflation? part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Based on an online macroeconomic simulation for an economy with stagflation, teams choose from a selection of fiscal and monetary policies for one year. The simulation then shows the results of the choice that can ...

What counts in GDP part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
This is a two part application exercise. In the first part groups evaluate whether or not five different economic activities should be counted in national measures of production such as GDP. In a second part ...

Counting GDP part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Working in small groups, students determine how 18 items are included in GDP (or if they are excluded.) Cards turned over one at a time encourage participation by all group members.

The Volatility of Gross Private Domestic Investment Spending part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
An applied exercise that shows students how to use National Income and Product Account (NIPA) data for the Consumption and Investment components of real GDP, and the significance of capital formation for economic ...

How can we adjust student college benefits for the cost of living? part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
Student teams predict the impact of college proposal to adjust financial aid based on inflation measured by the CPI. Students must use concepts related to the construction of price indices.

The Civilian Unemployment Rate and the Natural Rate of Unemployment part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
The Unemployment Rate Activity Exercise helps students to appreciate the relationship between the Civilian Unemployment Rate and the Natural Rate of Unemployment, and how tight labor markets can benefit wage ...

Circular Flow -- Equivalence of Income, Spending, and Production part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
In this activity students should come to understand a key part of the circular flow -- why income, production, and spending have the same dollar value.

Gross Private Domestic Investment Spending: Multipliers and Growth in the Real GDP part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Team-Based Learning:Activities
The Activity Exercise Gross Private Domestic Investment Spending: Multipliers and Growth in the Real GDP helps student grasp the significance of the Multiplier Effect in economic growth and the expansion of real ...