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Evaluating the pub smoking ban
While browsing the BBC website, I have come across this set of 10 charts that show the effect of the ban smoking in all enclosed public places and work places since it came into force in England on...
UK exports and imports in six charts
Thanks to the BBC, who have used data from the ONS, HMRC and the Food and Drink Federation to produce six charts summarising the UK's imports and exports. They analyse the figures behind the fact...
Financial crisis 2008 - what happened to Northern Rock?
I would like to share an excellent edition of the Radio 4 programme, The Reunion, which is available on iPlayer. It is a 45-minute discussion between some of the key characters involved in the...
The Economics News Quiz - 8 September 2017
Here is the first Economics News Quiz of the new school year! Good luck!
Economic Foundations quiz - use this with new Economics students
Here's a quick quiz that can either be set as homework or used as an in-class activity with your new students at the start of term. It uses the classic game format of 'Concentration' - where...
Play the World Economy Higher or Lower Game - Perfect for Returning Yr13 Econ Students
Here's a activity that you may like to use for returning students over the coming weeks. It uses our ever-popular 'Higher or Lower' Powerpoint format to test student knowledge on world economic data.
Some multi choice questions for new students to Economics - play the Loose Change game
Here's 5 multi-choice questions for students who are brand new to economics. The assumption here is that the teacher will have discussed the economic problem and factors of production. The activity...
Economics Network Newsletter (August) 2017
The latest Economics Network Newsletter has been published
Induction Day Economics Quiz
Here's a 12 question general economics knowledge quiz that you may like to use with new students starting your courses over the coming weeks. The questions are knowledge based but are designed to...
External Economies of Scale - did you spot any on your travels?
I was very fortunate this summer to have spent a couple of weeks staying at my brother's house in San Jose, California. He's lived there for nearly 30 years but this was only my second visit to his...
Here's the first of a few fun quizzes and exercises that we're giving away to support the initial induction lessons that you may have with students starting their economics lessons over the coming...
Regional Economic Data for the UK
Here is a goldmine of the latest regional economic data for the UK - useful when teaching living standards, the labour market and much else besides!
Teaching MC=MR with M&M’s
A terrific activity flagged up hereby Mark Johnston from King's College Auckland. Expect sales of M&M's to soar as we teach theory of the firm in the early weeks of the new school year!
Is work too easy? A new analysis on obesity
Since I started teaching, I've always enjoyed delivering the market failure aspects of the course, particularly in the first year. This topic always allows for students to immediately link...
How Markets Work - Classroom Posters to Stimulate Discussion
Here is a series of giant classroom posters designed to encourage Economics students to discussion the questions of how markets operate.
Which Economists do A Level students need to know about?
Which Economists do A Level students need to know about? The specifications discuss the need for students to use the theories of significant economists but aren't prescriptive about which.
Investment bonds - a learning resource for upcoming Yr 13 Economics students for their summer break!
Assuming that you've left much of the financial markets section of the A level Economics specification until year 2 of the course, here's a challenging online resource for next year's Year 13...
The new Paper 3 is almost upon us! Here's a 20 question multi-choice quiz on any micro or macro topic. Can be accessed using computer, tablet or phone. Click here to use the quiz.
Our GCSE Economics team have been hard at work preparing a bumper teaching resource pack to support the new GCSE Economics (9-1) specifications.
Labour markets - what jobs do UK workers actually do?
As part of their build up to the Election next month, the BBC website carries an article by Laura Gardiner of the Resolution Foundation. It examines the current data behind the headline that there...
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