Seinfeld video clip [0:42] teaches about the fallacy of composition with humor when George pushes people out of the way to save himself.

Economics lesson on economies of scale taught with humor through Seinfeld episode clip [4:03] in which Kramer illustrates the concept and demonstrates the importance of size and scale.

Hilarious Seinfeld episode video clip [4:03] teaches about the economic concepts of collusion and cartel when Kramer takes up karate in a class of young children.

Seinfeld video clip [1:35] teaches us about the economic concept of demand when Jerry decides to get an air conditioner because his girlfriend would feel more comfortable with it.

Video clip [4:24] of Seinfeld episode through which students learn about the economic concept of complementary and substitute product with Elaine's idea to sell only the tops of muffins.

Seinfeld clip [4:44] from an episode that teaches us about the economic concept of demand, featuring Jerry and Elaine's crusade as they begin to get fat from the yogurt they are eating.

Working in groups of three, students analyze economies of scale. Each student constructs an individual short-run ATC curve, then the three students collaborate to determine if there are economies or diseconomies of scale and to create the long run ATC.

What can be done to get people back to work? Students get the answer to this and other questions — including why education might be the best way to avoid unemployment in the future — in this short online module. This content from Econ Lowdown also features alignment to national Financial Literacy and/or Economics standards.

In this individual research project, a senior thesis student conducts a regression analysis that investigates the effects of race, ethnicity, and poverty on high school graduation rates in Florida. The data are easily obtainable from the Florida Department of Education. The project can be modified to be a group research project in a Research Methods Class or a Special Topics Upper Level Economics class.

In this undergraduate research and service learning project, students and faculty collaborate on a study of the effects of condemned/restored homes in their college town on surrounding property values. While this example describes an experience in a small, upper-level elective course, it includes suggestions for modifications of design and learning goals for other learning levels and environments.

It's never too soon to begin teaching basic financial concepts, such as human capital, decision-making, saving, and using credit, to young students. Ella's Adventures allow your students to follow young Ella as she learns important life lessons.

This assignment asks students to propose an original research question and identify data that could be used to answer that question.

This experiment illustrates how seemingly harmless individual actions can, when taken collectively, develop into larger costs to society.

Read a letter written to a lord in 1697 discussing the state of trade with the East, India's riches, and the impact of trade upon the West.

Context Rich Problem using the concepts of excise tax incidence, elasticity of demand, and elasticity of supply. Students must determine which information is appropriate and which is extraneous to the problem.

“How Daniel Got What He Wanted” is the fifth video in the Explore Economics animated series. It will help students understand that people have to save to get the things they want. Daniel wants a new bike helmet and must earn income and save to reach his goal.

This video from the Explore Economics series helps kids understand what productivity is and how we can increase productivity. Kids learn that productivity is a measure of output per worker per unit of time. They learn that we can increase productivity through division of labor, investment in human capital, and using new capital resources.

This set of assignments exposes students to data which can be used to analyze economic inequality in international and historical context. Then students are asked to generate a thesis-driven argument drawing supporting evidence from one or more of the data sources.

This is a two-part activity that implements an extension of the "think-pair-share" cooperative learning technique to study the determinants of supply and demand through hypothetical and real world examples.

In this interactive lecture, students watch a video clip from The Colbert Report that addresses pollution externalities. Students graph the market and use the write-pair-share technique, then brainstorm ways to move the market to the socially efficient equilibrium.