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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnderstanding money: Where is most of my money?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThis activity uses an Interactive Lecture Demonstration to help students understand the definition of money in a modern economy....Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTax Game
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThe link between a set of taxes and income distribution is an important, but difficult, concept taught in economics principles c...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEconomics and the Tragedy of the Commons
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentIn both macroeconomics and microeconomics principles courses, economists teach the virtue of markets as an allocative mechanism....Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRicardian Explorer
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentRicardian Explorer, implemented on the internet, simulates a Ricardian trade model with linear production technology and a CES u...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMarketSim
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentMarketSim helps students understand the functioning of markets by having them become consumers and producers in a simulated econ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGeneral Equilibrium Simulation for Microeconomics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentTeaching general equilibrium analysis to students is challenging. General equilibrium models are typically accessible to only a ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSpecialization and Division of Labor
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThis example engages students in a simple simulation of specialization and division of labor. All that is needed are staplers an...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFair Model
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThe Fair model web site includes a freely available United States macroeconomic econometric model and a multicounty econometric ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDynamic Integrated Climate Change Model (DICE)
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThe Dynamic Integrated Climate Change (DICE) model assumes a single world producer must chose levels for three simultaneously de...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBudget Explorer
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentStudents often come to a principles course in economics with knowledge that is not correct. This example asks students to guess ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOpen Outcry Market
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThis example is an in-class market simulation conducted with paper cards assigning each student a buyer or seller role and a res...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEconModel
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThis site contains 21 modular, easy to use economic models, that are appropriate for class assignments or in-class demonstration...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Learning Assistants to Support Peer Instruction with Classroom Response Systems ("Clickers")
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth's Resources, Life Sciences, Physics, Earth & Space Science and 5 additional..Learning Assistants are used to facilitate student discussion in peer instruction during clicker questions (i.e., classroom resp...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Learning Assistants in Oral Assessments
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Mathematics, Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentUndergraduate Learning Assistants -- prepared to work productively with students -- have been used to facilitate ungraded, volun...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Learning Assistants in Recitation Tutorials
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Physics, Chemistry, Professional DevelopmentUndergraduate Learning Assistants can be used to supplement the instructor and/or Teaching Assistant during recitations. They ma...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVarious Group Activities Using Learning Assistants
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Earth & Space Science and 2 additional..Undergraduate Learning Assistants have been used to facilitate group work in a variety of ways, such as in-lecture tutorials and...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkResources for using PhET simulations in class PhET Activities Database
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Physics, Professional Development, Multimedia Presentation and 2 additional..The PhET Activities Database is a collection of resources for using PhET sims. It includes hundreds of lesson plans, homework as...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComparing Two Airlines
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentIn this model‚Äêeliciting activity (MEA), students are hired by a travel magazine to determine if two airlines that fly into Chi...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Hudsucker Proxy: Using Media to Teach Economics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Economics, Professional DevelopmentThis film chronicles the introduction of the hula hoop, a toy that set off one of the greatest fads in United States history. Ac...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Beautiful Mind: Using Media to Teach Economics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Mathematics, Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentA Beautiful Mind won the Academy Award for best picture in 2001 and it chronicles the life of John Nash who is noted for his pio...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0