Teaching and Learning Resources for Economics

If you have already started to think about delivery of your economics classes next academic year you might be interested to know that there are a raft of ready-made resources available from Tutor2u aimed at engaging learners and promoting understanding of key concepts. Whilst the specifications are remaining unchanged for just a little while longer, the key change for teachers is the removal of January exams and the new challenges and opportunities this will bring.Some of the resources recently developed and available from our online store includes some great introductory activities such as Special Cars and The Island. We have resources aimed at testing student understanding of diagrams such as Diagrams in a Bag, S & D Situation cards and Market Failure Mix and Match. If you want to extend analysis and evaluation skills then take a look at Bees Hate Cod, and the Econocards activities.If you like your classes to be interactive and lively then you will enjoy the Circular Flow of Income, Redsands Cost Benefit Analysis activity and International Trade Game.And finally.... if you are keen on promoting learning and revision through team-based games then try out the fully-editable Powerpoint games. There is a large and growing selection of games but the latest includes Stay-A-Head (teams attempt to stay ahead of one another on the board by correctly answering questions), Saboteur (a saboteur is secretly chosen in a team to convince them of incorrect answers - a truly wonderful exercise in 'thinking skills'), Face It (teams gamble points based upon how confident they are of knowing their answers) and Pass the Buck (your in-class 'pass-the-parcel' activity).