Activities and Teaching Advice

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Analyzing and Visualization of Data: A Team Project in an Undergraduate Course Evaluating Food Insecurity in U.S. Households

Applied Economics Teaching Resources, 2024.
Yanhong Jin, Mattias Arrindell, Shannon Austin, Leann Benny, Jason Campbell, Qihong Chen, Lucas Fithian, Lynette Vasquez, and Julia Yi

Valuing Identity in the Classroom: What Economics Can Learn from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024.
Sergio Barrera, Susan Sajadi, Marionette Holmes, and Sarah Jacobson

Bringing the classroom to the real world: Field trips to marginalized neighborhoods

The Journal of Economic Education, 2023.
EeCheng Ong and Timothy Wong

Recommendations for Contextualizing and Facilitating Class Conversations about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Social Justice

Applied Economics Teaching Resources, 2023.
Donald A. Sauciera, Noah D. Renkena, Ashley A. Schiffera, and Tucker L. Jones

Environmental Justice

Unequal exposure: An inclusive approach to teaching environmental justice

The Journal of Economic Education, 2024.
Keith Brouhle and Nirupama Devaraj

Inequality and Superfund sites: Using backward design, cooperative learning, and data integration in introductory environmental economics

The Journal of Economic Education, 2023.
Anna Klis

Water

Water and Economics: Why We Need and Ought to Teach Water Economics in the Modern Economics Curriculum

Applied Economics Teaching Resources, 2023.
Mohammad Mashiur Rahmana, Samrat B. Kunwarb, Niraj Khatiwadac,, Mengqi Liud, Alok K. Boharae, and Jingjing Wange

Just Enviro Econ

Activities and Teaching Advice

Analyzing and Visualization of Data: A Team Project in an Undergraduate Course Evaluating Food Insecurity in U.S. Households

Valuing Identity in the Classroom: What Economics Can Learn from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education

Bringing the classroom to the real world: Field trips to marginalized neighborhoods

Recommendations for Contextualizing and Facilitating Class Conversations about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Social Justice

Alternatives to the scarcity principle

Teaching about Diversity and Racism in Food Systems: An Example for Agricultural Economics and Related Departments

Emphasizing Distributional Impacts in Teaching Solutions to Market Failures

Climate change mitigation under uncertainty and inequality: A classroom experiment

What Should We Be Teaching Students about the Economics of Climate Change: Is There a Consensus?

Making Learning about Climate Change Fun and Interactive

Pollution Control Policy Game

Red / Black Card Classroom Game to Show Free Rider Problem and Cooperation

Coordinating Environmental and Trade Policy to Protect the Environment: A Pedagogical Approach

Coordinating Environmental and Trade Policy to Protect the Environment: A Pedagogical Approach

A classroom game on a negative externality correcting tax: Revenue return, regressivity, and the double dividend

Unequal exposure: An inclusive approach to teaching environmental justice

Inequality and Superfund sites: Using backward design, cooperative learning, and data integration in introductory environmental economics

Making introductory economics more relevant: Using personalized connections to introduce environmental economics

Teaching development economics from a gender perspective

Money growing on trees: A classroom game about payments for ecosystem services and tropical deforestation

Money growing on trees: A classroom game about payments for ecosystem services and tropical deforestation

A dynamic semester-long social dilemma game for economic and interdisciplinary courses

Unlocking Success: Key Lessons from Academia-Government Collaborations in Advancing Public Policy

Water and Economics: Why We Need and Ought to Teach Water Economics in the Modern Economics Curriculum