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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBudget Explorer
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceStudents 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 / HyperLinkDynamic Integrated Climate Change Model (DICE)
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceThe 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 / HyperLinkFair Model
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceThe 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 / HyperLinkSpecialization and Division of Labor
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceThis 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 / HyperLinkGeneral Equilibrium Simulation for Microeconomics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceTeaching 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 / HyperLinkMarketSim
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceMarketSim 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 / HyperLinkRicardian Explorer
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceRicardian 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 / HyperLinkEconomics and the Tragedy of the Commons
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceIn 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 / HyperLinkTax Game
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceThe 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 / HyperLinkUnderstanding money: Where is most of my money?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceThis 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 / HyperLinkWhat's the best payment?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceAfter predicting which of two earnings streams has the highest currrent value, students use a discounted values table to compare...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJudging Randomness
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Mathematics, Professional Development, Probability, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis model-eliciting activity has students create rules to allow them to judge whether or not the shuffle feature on a particula...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRevving up for Relief: Harley-Davidson at the ITC
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, American Democracy, Professional Development, History-Social SciencePublished in 1986, this Kennedy School case tells the story of Harley-Davidson's application to the ITC for temporary relief fro...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Case: Textiles and the Multi-Fiber Arrangement
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceAn "oldie but goodie" this 1983 case (revised in 1990), is set in December 1981, when the international arrangement governing in...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Case: Peanut Policy in the United States, 1996
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThe text of this case is a transcript of a story broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered on January 22, 1996. The story concern...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Case: Scissors and Shears
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis case is the transcript of the 1962 Congressional Testimony of BC Deuschle, President of the Scissors, Shears and Manicure I...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat sizes are the planets and how do they move around the sun?
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Our Solar SystemThis is a whole class activity in which the class will physically model how the planets move around the sun. I will have the bal...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing an Observatory Project to Develop Professional Communication in Astronomy
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Our Solar SystemThis is a comprehensive project using the Highland Road Park Observatory camera. This project encompasses the formal portions fo...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMalnutrition, DNA replication, development, and schizophrenia homework problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Biochemistry, ScienceAt the beginning of a DNA, DNA replication, and mitosis unit, students are given a short science news article summarizing a rece...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPhylogenetics problems
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Evolution and AdaptationStudents receive information about cladistics and apply this phylogenetic approach to two problems, collecting data, determining...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0