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Wildcard Wednesday! Using music to reinforce economic principles
9th February 2011
Ever wanted to use more alternative media in your lessons? Earlier this morning while looking for inspiration for a fun lesson starter, I came across this brilliant website. It gives a wide range of song lyrics from Lily Allen, through to Bruce Springsteen and Ludacris, and suggests ways in which you can tie the lyrics in to fundamental economic principles, as well as providing links directly to the tracks so that you can use them directly in your lessons.
As well as being a great resource, you can contact the website managers with your own suggestions, which to me seems like a great extension activity, and one that I will suggest to my classes this week.
Ruth Tarrant
Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.