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Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics > Teaching Methods

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Recycle -- or not? A case from New York City part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Teaching with the Case Method:Examples
Patrick Conway, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A case for the analysis of externalities (social costs and benefits) in the context of recycling. Drawn from a program in New York City.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Waste:Waste Solid , Political Science
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

"Breakfast, Brainpower, and Connecting Disciplines" part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching:Examples
Dave Wells, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Activity to help students differentiate how disciplines focus on a problem.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Psychology, Biology

Confronting the political economy of climate change part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching:Examples
Dave Wells, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Students apply economics, politics and sociology to better understand why cap and trade is the preferred political approach, but also why it's potentially problematic.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Political Science, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate

Retinitis pigmentosa: Genetic Eye Disease part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Teaching with the Case Method:Examples
Eric Ribbens, Western Illinois University
By examining the progress of a genetic eye disease, students learn about eyes, genetic disorders, and neurons in this case designed for clickers and large lecture sections.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Assessments:Other Assessment Type
Subject: Biology:Molecular Biology, Anatomy & Physiology:Organ Systems

Rescuing the Aral Sea: use of Case Method part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Teaching with the Case Method:Examples
Patrick Conway, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A case based upon the environmental devastation of the Aral Sea that illustrates economic concepts of opportunity cost and social marginal cost.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Environmental Science, Economics

Too many deer? A public hearing part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Teaching with the Case Method:Examples
Eric Ribbens, Western Illinois University
Students reenact a public hearing to determine how to manage a deer herd that is overpopulated.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Political Science, Biology:Ecology