Friday, October 30, 2015

Supplemental: Econ Movies

EconMovies 1: Star Wars (Scarcity, Choices, and Exchange)


EconMovies 2: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Marginal Analysis)


EconMovies 3: Monsters Inc (Production Possibilities Curve)


EconMovies 4: Indiana Jones (Demand, Supply, Equilibrium, Shifts)


EconMovies 5: Cars (GDP, Recession, and Fiscal Policy)


EconMovies 6: Back to the Future (Nominal vs. Real, Unemployment, Inflation)


EconMovies 7: Anchorman (Efficiency and Market Failures)


EconMovies 8: The Dark Knight (Oligopolies and Game Theory)

Monday, October 5, 2015

Economics Project Ideas

Your assignment today is to come up with a creative idea for students to learn a specific economic
concept (or book chapter).  For example, you may have students join a virtual stock market game where they buy imaginary stocks in a real company, then monitor the stock prices in a classroom competition.  You may have students create a virtual company with an imaginary (or real) product, and focus on improving sales or expanding their customer base.  You may want students to create a series of graphs demonstrating changes in a companies Production Possibility Frontiers.

You can either create your own or research interesting projects on the Internet.  Whichever you choose, just make sure it covers a topic in Economics (see your textbook) and it includes specific instructions that I [or another Economics teachers] could implement in future classes.

THIS PROJECT IS DUE FRIDAY AND COUNTS AS THE COURSE FINAL EXAM