This is a whole lesson PowerPoint and activity pack for a one hour lesson for a keen class. It might require another half lesson for either a challenging or lower ability class. Includes a starter, two activities, a homework activity (or lesson extension) and a Kahoot plenary to test learning. Timing clocks for activities are included. Two slides require copying as handouts, but they are marked as such.

I’m very proud of this resource as it took me many evenings to think through, but it works beautifully using the second hand car market to illustrate market failure. The activity takes a little time to prepare, but I’ve included everything you need (except for a cash template - there are plenty of these online) including templates of cars and instructions on how to print them, along with how to run the activity. Students love it too, as there is an element of deception to it. Excellent for illustrating market failure, the exercise lasts for around 40 minutes, so there is ample time to review what has gone on once complete.

This is a classroom activity and not a writing activity despite the need for pencils and paper. It amply demonstrates the differences between free market and command economies in any of the new A Level Economics syllabuses. The activity lasts for around half an hour and requires some 'play' money, (easily downloaded from many websites), pencils and paper. There is no setting up once you have the resources and the discussions and learning points of the activity generate more than enough material for a whole one hour lesson.

This classroom activity is very popular in economics classrooms and mine, I’m afraid, is a take on an old favourite. I like to use tennis balls for this experiment, but anything will do - rubbers, board markers, calculators, just as long it is a homogeneous product. This experiment works well and extremely quickly, with students understanding the concept of perfect competition very quickly and all of terms student need to know; supernormal profits, homogeneous goods, factors of production, barriers to entry, elasticity, demand, knowledge and profit maximisation, can easily be introduced.

A classroom activity that uses a pack of cards to effectively show the problems of oligopolistic competition and the temptations of collusion; students really love this activity. One pack of cards is enough for twenty-six students. The resource includes detailed guidance for the game and suggestions for discussions at several stages throughout the activity. I developed this activity to demonstrate the difficulties of oligopolistic competition and the dilemmas involved with ‘who moves first’. The game is similar to the Prisoner’s Dilemma game, but is impossible to cheat at, (something my students were very good at), because whichever card is played there is both a risk or a benefit dependent upon the card played by the other player; it’s pure chance.

This classroom activity helps to demonstrate the ‘selfishness’ that inevitably surrounds the principal and agent problem. A small part of any A level Economics specification it is nevertheless an important principle to grasp. My students tell me that this is one of the most enjoyable of my many and various activities!

This activity is excellent for showing students how trade works and raises more than enough questions for a whole lesson. This experiment illustrates both trade and globalisation and helps to deliver a relatively dull topic in an exciting and fun way.

I developed this activity from a similar trade activity that I run and students seem to enjoy it. The activity runs for as long as you let it. The activity demonstrates world trade and globalisation, and other elements can be brought in too, particularly trade blocs, trade agreements and other earlier elements of the course such as supply and demand are readily identifiable.

This is a classroom activity which requires about ten minutes preparation and is fun way to examine wealth distribution and relative poverty in any of the new A Level Economics syllabuses. Your purchase includes full details about the activity, how to conduct it and points for consideration during the activity. The activity lasts for around 20 minutes and requires some Skittles sweets and a score card which is included. Discussions and learning points of the activity generate some material for discussion, but you will need some additional material around wealth distribution and/or poverty.