The best way to learn something is to do it! Here is another experiencial learning activity for economics that you can do with your students. It will help your students understand and explain the difference between the four market...

Improve your Active Listening Skills, a key part of our overall effective communication skills Active listening skills, which some people call reflective listening, are critical for professionals, leaders, students, parents, customer...

For the last 9 years I've been able to travel the world and share strategies and activities to get students motivated and engaged. This video was taken at the MEGA conference sponsored by the Nevada Department of Education in April 2015....

The Spider Web is one of the most fun and memorable experiential learning activities students will do at Boot Camp. Students learn that "stronger" students have a responsibility to help their peers. They also learn the benefits of...

Marble Madness is an excellent problem solving activity that students complete towards the end of Boot Camp. Teams must use all the skills they learned at Boot Camp to quickly and efficiently get the marble to the cup. They quickly learn...

Here is a great activity that helps students understand markets and price signals. In this activity half the class are buyers and the other half are sellers. The product they are selling is handshakes. There are four rounds and each last...

Boot Camp is an interactive skill-building program where students discuss and practice the skills required for success in high school courses (AP, AVID, ASB, Yearbook, etc). The program focuses on developing five essential skills:...

Welcome to the second episode of my weekly web series, ACDC For Teachers. In this videos I talk about why students hate school and give three specific strategies to get students to buy-in to your class. ACDC stands for my teaching...

The Pearl Exchange is a hands-on experiential learning activity that shows how buyers and sellers determine equilibrium price in a market. It also shows how changes in a market will lead to shortages or surpluses and result in changes in...

Marshmallow Towers is a fun activity to teach the costs of production, total revenue, and profit maximization. Student make towers out of marshmallows and toothpicks.

Welcome to my web series, ACDC For Teachers. In this episode I give four strategies to get students to work collaboratively.

A great resource market simulation that demonstrates MRP and MRC and explains why each worker generates less revenue than previous workers. Have the students calculate the additional revenue generated by each worker to determine if they...

This is an awesome demand and supply activity that teachers equilibrium, shortage, surplus, and shifts in demand and supply.

This is a great activity to simulate the labor market and show how a business decides how many workers to hire. Watch the video and see if you can figure out the following: 1. How many workers should be hired to maximize profit? 2. What...

Student inverviews from AP Boot Camp at San Pasqual High School in Escondido, CA.

This is a supply and demand activity that explain how the equalibrium price is created and changed.

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In this deeply moving talk, educator Shabana Basij-Rasikh shares the harrowing story of evacuating more than 250 students, staff and family members from the School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA) -- the country's first and only...

In this video transcript, a teacher named Ryu teaches his students about the importance of initiative through a story about two friends who want to find a coach for their cricket team. With Ryu's guidance, the friends take the initiative...

Boot Camp is an interactive skill-building program where students practice the skills required to succeed in school. Students work together to complete a variety of hands-on experiential learning activities that focus on five skills:...

It’s official, October is Economic Education Month! If you are a student, consider creating an economics club at your school or lead an economics lesson/activity at your local elementary school or after school program (see activity ideas...

My professional development workshops integrate experiential learning activities with specific teaching strategies that get students motivated and engaged. Whether you’re creating a school-wide boot camp or just interested in practical...

Attention all AP Economics students! Here is your chance to win $200. Rewrite the lyrics of a popular song to include economic concepts and create a music video. Choose a specific topic, unit, or the course in general. Deadline- March...