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Online Classroom Games for Teaching Economics
Economics-games.com is a free educational games site for teaching microeconomics, industrial organization and game theory.Choose the game you want to run, enter the number of players and that's it: You just have to communicate their logins to your students and have them connect to the site with their phones, tablets or laptops. You can then observe and debrief the game through your interface.
Creator: Nicolas Gruyer & Nicolas Toublanc
Submitted On: 03/19/2015
Subject: microeconomics, game theory, industrial organization theory
Access rights: Free Access
Type: Interactive
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Games for Teaching Economics
AirECONsim, the Energy Game, the Carbon Game and the IO Game are multiplayer online games for teaching economics (Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Environmental Economics, Transport Economics, Energy Economics, ...), played over one to several days.
Creator: Nicolas Gruyer & Nicolas Toublanc
Submitted On: 03/19/2015
Subject: microeconomics, industrial organization theory, environmental economics, transportation economic, energy economics
Access rights: Free Access
Type: games
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NACo County Explorer
This interactive website created by the National Association of Counties allows users to map and compare county-level data.  Users can investigate a wide range of areas (finance, economy, business, demography, education, health, housing, public safety, justice, environment, welfare, ...), zoom in on a region or a county, and share maps.
Submitted On: 03/19/2015
Subject: county, mapping, socio-economic indicators
Access rights: Free Access
Type: Interactive
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Parable of the Polygons
This segregation simulation is based off the work of Nobel Prize-winning game theorist, Thomas Schelling. Specifically, his 1971 paper, Dynamic Models of Segregation. We built on top of this, and showed how a small demand for diversity can desegregate a neighborhood.
Creator: Vi Hart & Nicky Case
Submitted On: 01/19/2015
Subject: sociology
Access rights: Free Access
Type: Interactive Simulation
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Racial Disparities in Health Care: A Data-Driven Learning Guide
The term health disparities refers to population-specific differences in the presence of disease, health outcomes, quality of health care, and access to health care services that exist across racial and ethnic groups.Over the last 50 years, African Americans and other minority groups have made significant economic and educational strides. But these advances have been tempered by continuing disparities in health and health care compared to Whites. Despite substantial policy efforts to the contrary, racial and ethnic minorities, especially African-Americans, often receive a lower quality of care and have worse outcomes.In this exercise, we will explore racial disparities in health and healthcare in the US, focusing on some of the barriers to access and quality healthcare.
Creator: ICPSR
Submitted On: 01/19/2015
Subject: Healthcare, race
Access rights: Available by Subscription
Type: Activity
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Census Explorer
Make new discoveries about your neighborhood with Census Explorer, the U.S. Census Bureau’s interactive map series.
Submitted On: 01/19/2015
Subject: demographics, maps
Type: Visualization
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Measure of America: American Human Development Index Report Teachers' Guide
Lesson plans for high school teachers to use “The Measure of America” for teaching topics in U.S. government, civics, history, and census data. Includes worksheets, full-color maps, assessment rubrics, and more!
Creator: Social Science Research Council
Submitted On: 01/19/2015
Access rights: Free Access
Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan
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Stabilize the Debt: An Online Exercise in Hard Choices
The long-term debt of the United States is rising to unprecedented – and unsustainable – levels. Under official budget projections, the public debt of the U.S. is projected to grow to about 100% of the economy by 2035 and nearly 150% and still climbing by 2050. Debt at these levels will threaten economic growth and the standard of living for all Americans.This simulation was designed to illustrate the tough budget choices that will have to be made and to promote a public dialogue on how we can set a sustainable fiscal course. How do your choices stack up?
Creator: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB)
Submitted On: 01/19/2015
Subject: economics
Access rights: Free Access
Type: Interactive Simulation
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Altruism: A Data-Driven Learning Guide
Prosocial behavior is a term used by social psychologists to refer to a broad category of actions that are considered to be beneficial to others and to have positive social consequences. One type of prosocial behavior is altruism--helping that is intended to provide aid to someone else with no expectations of getting something in return.The goal of this exercise is to explore some of the factors that may influence altruistic behavior. Crosstabulation will be used.
Creator: ICPSR
Submitted On: 06/30/2014
Subject: altruism, sociology, social psychology
Access rights: Available by Subscription
Type: Activity
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New prisons built in the United States: 1811-2004
This MapStory interactive map shows the growth of prisons in the United States from 1811 to 2004. Original data was compiled by Rose Heyer at the Prison Policy Initiative for this visualization of prisons from 1900-2000: http://www.prisonpolicy.org/atlas/proliferation1900-2000.html.
Creator: mapstory.com
Submitted On: 06/30/2014
Subject: sociology, criminology, prisons
Access rights: Free Access
Type: Visualization
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