Mar 24Spring StatementHere are two activities on the Spring Statement for your A-Level Economists. The first looks at the economic context of the statement and...
Jan 30Subsidy Diagram DominoesNothing special, just some dominoes for A-Level students to practice identifying different areas of subsidy diagrams:
Jan 30Economics A-Level Taster sessionsLast year, I collected some ideas about Economics taster sessions here. Tomorrow, I have a session with some of Year 10 'academic...
Jan 10Diversity in the Economics CurriculumLike many, I'm currently looking at diversifying the Economics A-Level curriculum, but so far haven't been able to find anywhere with...
Dec 15, 2021Christmas Economics ResourcesSome festive classroom favourites for end of term! The 12 Days of Christmas Index is always a good one. You can use it for some...
Nov 28, 2021Using letters to talk about graphsNothing special, but I couldn't find anything like it elsewhere so I made one up quickly. Students just need to use letters to describe...
Nov 28, 2021FDCO Next Generation Economics CompetitionFDCO have announced this year's Next Generation competition, open for UK students in Years 10-13 (or equivalent). With a limit of 800...
Nov 28, 2021Market Structures Chains of Analysis 8 questions to practise mapping chains of analysis. Great for a revision lesson as they identify gaps in understanding as well as giving...
Nov 28, 2021Year 1 Micro Video QRsI've put QR codes to all of EconPlusDal's amazing Year 1 Micro Videos on one sheet. Works as the bones of a revision checklist or as a...
Oct 31, 20217 Activities for the 2021 Autumn BudgetI've mentioned in the past how I've had very mixed results when setting vague 'Research the Budget' tasks for homework. The last few...
Oct 17, 2021Economics at Open EveningsI really love Open Evenings - once I get on my Economics soapbox, it's hard to shut me up. However, they always seem to creep up on me...
Sep 26, 2021Types of InnovationI've shared this graphic before, but I wanted to make it into a task. Plus some of Doblin's innovation strategies are pretty interesting...
Sep 26, 2021Evaluating Business ObjectivesSome variation of 'Is profit maximisation a valid assumption?' is a really common essay question, but I've found that students struggle...
Sep 26, 2021Production, Costs, Revenues and Profits RecallI've finally gotten around to updating and uploading recall questions for this topic: Questions - Question Booklet - Suggested Answers - ...
Sep 12, 2021Classroom PostersSome of these I've shared before, but thought it would be useful to have them in one place. 1) Nobel Prize Winners - Posters explaining...
Aug 23, 2021Read this before you teach...Introduction to EconomicsI always think there is a lot riding on the first few weeks: Getting to know them, helping them transition from GCSE, setting routines...
Jul 13, 2021WTO Heist I could never find a decent text for my students to read on the WTO, so I ended up writing one. There are two versions: a standard one...
Jun 28, 2021Country RankingsA quick starter asking students to take a guess at the relative rankings of UK, USA, Norway and Japan on different indicators.
Jun 28, 2021Big Tech Competition and RegulationAnother great article from Economics Observatory on promoting competition in Big Tech. It's a bit lengthier than their usual articles so...
Jun 25, 20214 Resources on Virtual Public GoodsI hadn't really thought much about virtual public goods until I read this article 'People may become less likely to contribute to a...
Jun 23, 2021Discover Economics Careers Event for GCSE and A-Level StudentsDiscover Economic Careers is an event to showcase the exciting and varied opportunities open to economics graduates. The event will take...
Jun 13, 2021Adult retraining activitiesStudents are always trotting out the 'improve education' answer, but few do this is in a particularly specific way, and even when they...
Jun 13, 2021Public Goods Game and other Taster Day activitiesUpdate: See this post for 2022 Year 10 Taster There have been lots of questions recently about what to do on 'taster days'. Uncontained...
May 30, 2021Finding and Using Data On the agenda for May's EconEdChat were 3 questions: What do Economics teachers need to know about the Discover Economics campaign? How...
May 30, 2021Economics before A-Level On the agenda for May's EconEdChat were 3 questions: What do Economics teachers need to know about the Discover Economics campaign? How...
May 25, 2021Sugar Taxes This article on Sugar Taxes from the Economics Observatory is gold dust for teaching market failure and intervention! There are some...
May 24, 2021Inequality in the US - Data DetectivesThis data-packed article from the NYT is great for illustrating inequality (and also practising interpreting graphs). There is a teacher...
May 16, 2021Encouraging Diversity in Economics On the agenda for May's EconEdChat were 3 questions: What do Economics teachers need to know about the Discover Economics campaign? How...
May 16, 2021Choose Economics PostersFollowing May's EconEdChat with Professor Sarah Smith on Discover Economics, I went back and revamped some of my Choose Economics posters...
May 15, 2021Discounted CPD CourseIan Marcousé and A-Z Business Training are running two 3-day 'Starting to Teach Economics' courses, one in-person event and one online....
Apr 27, 2021Teaching Financial EconomicsOn the agenda for April's EconEdChat were 3 questions: What are the most common misconceptions do students have in Economics and how can...
Apr 25, 2021Vaccine AllocationI really enjoyed this article from the Economics Observatory and made some accompanying activities. It requires no prior economic...
Apr 24, 2021Misconceptions in EconomicsOn the agenda for April's EconEdChat were 3 questions: What are the most common misconceptions do students have in Economics and how can...
Apr 3, 2021New in the Shop: Elasticity ResourcesI've had these in the pipelines for months, but finally finished them off last week. Essentially, they powerpoints with companion student...
Mar 19, 2021Extra-curricular activities for Economics studentsOn the agenda for March's EconEdChat were 3 questions: What strategies are effective for EAL students? How can we teach labour markets?...
Mar 19, 2021Teaching Labour Markets<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BSCtq9Szk3I" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay;...
Mar 19, 2021Teaching Economics to EAL StudentsOn the agenda for March's EconEdChat were 3 questions: What strategies are effective for EAL students? How can we teach labour markets?...
Mar 6, 2021Teaching ElasticityOn the agenda for February's EconEdChat were 3 questions: How can we help students to develop their evaluation? How can we ensure...
Mar 6, 2021Interactive Graphsecongraphs.org is a website from the US which has some interactive graphs. It's not 100% perfect, but it might show at least some of the...
Mar 3, 2021Budget 2021 ActivitiesI've updated last year's Budget Activities for 2021. Reading of varying detail BBC: 10 Ways the Budget Affects You BBC: Key Points at a...
Feb 14, 2021Retrieval and Recall in EconomicsOn the agenda for February's EconEdChat were 3 questions: How can we help students to develop their evaluation? How can we ensure...
Feb 7, 2021Developing Students' Evaluation SkillsOn the agenda for February's EconEdChat were 3 questions: How can we help students to develop their evaluation? How can we ensure...
Jan 18, 2021Helping Economics Students at the Lower EndOn the agenda for January's EconEdChat were 3 questions: 1) How can we help students to make good use of extracts in exams? 2) How can we...
Jan 14, 2021Using the ExtractOn the agenda for January's EconEdChat were 3 questions: 1) How can we help students to make good use of extracts in exams? 2) How can we...
Jan 8, 20215 Useful and 5 Not-So-Useful lessons from 'The Writing Revolution'Hochman and Wexler's book The Writing Revolution (TWR) has come up in conversation a few times among Econ Teachers over the last month or...
Dec 8, 2020EconEdChat with Richard DaviesDecember's EconEdChat was slightly different from usual: Rather than the usual 3 questions about Economics education, Richard Davies ...
Nov 29, 2020Starters in EconomicsOn the agenda for November's EconEdChat were 3 questions: 1) How can we help students get to grips with diagrams? 2) How can we teach...
Nov 28, 2020Teaching Market StructuresOn the agenda for November's EconEdChat were 3 questions: 1) How can we help students get to grips with diagrams? 2) How can we teach...
Nov 15, 2020Helping Students with DiagramsOn the agenda for November's EconEdChat were 3 questions: 1) How can we help students get to grips with diagrams? 2) How can we teach...
Nov 14, 2020Teaching Behavioural EconomicsOn the agenda for October's EconEdChat were 3 questions: 1) How can we support students applying to study Economics-related University...