Classroom Activities
“Intelligence Quotient” (IQ) Tests
- Personal Finance IQ Test – True or False Questions Only
- Personal Finance IQ Test – True or False Questions and Answers (Visit test bank.)
- Personal Finance IQ Test – True or False Questions, Answers and Explanations (Visit test bank.)
- Personal Finance IQ Test – PPT for True or False Questions, Answers and Explanations (Visit test bank.)
- Personal Finance IQ Test – Multiple Choice Questions Only
- Personal Finance IQ Test – Multiple Choice Questions and Answers (Visit test bank.)
Microeconomics
- Microeconomic Activity: Are You an Entrepreneur?u [PDF]
- Microeconomic Activity: Gains from Trade Game [PDF]
- Microeconomics or Macroeconomics Activity: Poverty Around the World[PDF]
- Microeconomic Activity: How Price Ceilings Affect Incentives?[PDF]
- Microeconomic Activity: A Property Rights Simulation[PDF]
Macroeconomics
- Macroecomics Activity: Find out “What is a Dollar Worth” by visiting the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
- Macroeconomics Activity: Economic Freedom, Prosperity, and the Quality of Life[PDF]
- Macroeconomics Activity: What Should the Role of Government Be in Providing Goods and Services? [PDF]
- Macroeconomics Activity: Government Spending, Subsidies, Taxes and Opportunity Costs[PDF]
- Macroeconomics Activity: Gross Domestic Product: What It Is and How It Is Measured [PDF] By Tawni Hunt Ferrarini, Northern Michigan University’s Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship and James Gwartney, Florida State University’s Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Economic Education
- Macroeconomics Activity: Mystery Nations[PDF]
- Macroeconomics or Microeconomics Activity: Poverty Around the World[PDF]
- Macroeconomics Activity: How Could Outsourcing Produce More Jobs? [PDF]
- Macroeconomics Activity: Wonderful Trends of the Past 100 Years[PDF]
- Macroeconomics Activity: Milking Voters on the Farm[PDF]
Hot Topics
- The Crash of 2008: Cause and Aftermath [PDF]. By James Gwartney, David Macpherson, Russell Sobel, and Richard Stroup provides a comprehensive analysis of the current economic crisis. This crisis is likely to be the most important macroeconomic event of our lifetime. The Crash of 2008: Cause and Aftermath [PDF] addresses the cause, analyzes the future, and considers the often ask question of whether we are headed for another Great Depression. Economic Crisis 2008 [PPT] will help teachers communicate valuable information to students. Test questions are available in the secured test bank. Visit the CSE Hot Topics page for other resources connected to the crisis.
Student Activities
- Activity: What is Consumer Price Index (CPI)? [PDF]
- Activity: College: Where I am Going to Go? By EconEdLink.org (Economic Concepts: Scarcity and Marginal Analysis)
- Macroecomics Activity: Find out “What is a Dollar Worth” by visiting the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
- Microeconomic Activity: Gains from Trade Game [PDF]
- What is Globalization? A Student’s Guide to Globalization. Site managed by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
- Activity: Learning and Earning. Site mangaged by TheMint.org. (Use the site to see how higher education translates into higher earning levels, on average.
- Activity: A Property Rights Simulation[PDF]
