A group activity for AS Economics that gets students to work together to decide whether each of the goods is excludable, rival, non-excludable and non rival. You can then get the students to discuss how we define each of the categories, private good, public good, quasi public good etc. Can also lead to a discussion on how these categorisations may have changed over time. The resource includes the teacher answers and a paper copy that students can cut and stick with. My students all have laptops so I just gave them the powerpoint without the answers and got them to drag and drop the answers.

Students are market doctors and must diagnose the market failure in question from the free market. They must then prescribe a solution. Market failures addressed include: - Externalities - Public Goods - Information Failure - Unequal Distribution of Income and Wealth Solutions may include: - Taxation - Government provision - Information provision - Regulation - Government Provision - Education and campaigns

A model answer to the AQA Economics Unit 1 Jan 2012 Exam - With the help of an appropriate diagram, explain why merit goods are often under provide. Adapted into a 10 mark question for the new specification

A differentiated oligopoly worksheet applied to the chocolate bar market. Get students to research the chocolate bar market before answering questions. Could be used as an in class worksheet or activity or as a homework project.

A worksheet that gets students to apply their knowledge of perfect competition and efficiency in an essay style format answering a 25 mark question. Also contains teacher notes with answers to the eleven questions.

A debate worksheet for students to analyse which policy would be best in correcting geographical immobility of labour. The policies include: - Help to Buy - HS2 - Relocation of the Civil Service - Job Centre Plus Also there are three additional evaluation points that could be considered.

A table that explains the various types of market failures and advantages and disadvantages of the appropriate government interventions. Students can fill in the blank tables and there are handwritten teacher answers to compare.

Six recent-ish news stories that can be used to demonstrate government failure. Students have to explain what type of government failure each story is and why. Also includes a lesson powerpoint on government failure. The answers to the worksheet are as follows: 1. Information failure 2. Unintended consequences 3. Regulatory capture (potentially stemming from information failure) 4. Policy myopia (short termism) and maybe unintended consequences from allowing drivers on the hard shoulder 5. Political self interest and conflicting policies 6. Excessive admin costs and poor value for money

Themes of evaluation that can be used in the Unit 1 AQA Economics exam.

This resource includes a powerpoint presentation on fiscal policy. It explains the types of fiscal policy, the impact on AD and AS, advantages, disadvantages, evaluation and crowding out. There is a worksheet on contractionary fiscal policy, a worksheet on government policy with answers and two class activities. One analysing the effect of an increase in goverment spending and the other is a true or false activity on crowding out in both editable PDF version and word version. I have also thrown in a 'chains of analysis' powerpoint for students to edit and compete to try to make the longest chain of analysis possible regarding fiscal and monetary policy. This resource includes everything you need to teach fiscal policy.

This resource is a worksheet that gets students to categorise the different scenarios into cyclical unemployment, frictional unemployment, structural unemployment or another situation. Once they have determined what type of unemployment it is they must colour in the relevant squares the corresponding colours to make the picture. The picture is of a map of the UK. The colours represent the differences rates of unemployment across the country. They must answer correctly to complete the challenge. This worksheet could be used as a revision activity and the completed graph (and therefore answers) is attached.

The resource is a worksheet getting students to plan an answer to the question: Discuss the view that a policy of budget deficit reduction will make it harder to achieve economic growth (25 marks) I have included suggested answers as well for the essay plan. It includes an introduction, arguments for and arguments against, a diagram and evaluation.

A worksheet specifically looking at the causes of economic growth. (Check out my GDP Statistics resource for measurement of economic growth) I have also uploaded my own answers to the worksheet that have been handwritten and scanned in. There is also a powerpoint on economic growth looking at measurement, causes, consequences in advantages and disadvantages and evaluation. I have also included a lesson activity focussing on the multiplier effect and how that can be evaluated that includes answers.

This resource includes powerpoint presentations for every topic in AQA Unit 1 Microeconomics new specification. The powerpoints are: 1. PPF Curves 2. Supply and Demand 3. Price Determination 4. Costs of Production in the Short Run 5. Economies of Scale 6. AS Monopoly 7. AS Perfect Competition 8. Division of Labour and Specialisation 9. Price Elasticity of Demand 10. Consumer and Producer Surplus 11. Taxes and Subsidies 12. Price Mechanism and Market Failure 13. Externalities 14. Public Goods 15. Other Market Failures 16. Correcting Externalities 17. Price Controls 18. Government Failure Also check out my other resources. I have at least one worksheet available for every one of these topics and lesson activities for most on TES as well.

This resource is made up of a powerpoint presentation on inflation, a worksheet looking at who is hurt by inflation and a lesson activity getting students to discuss and rank costs of inflation to firms.

A worksheet and powerpoint presentation that looks specifically at different ways of addressing environmental market failure. The powerpoint presentation looks at the advantages and disadvantages of tradable pollution permits and extending property rights and shows an environmental indirect tax on a negative externality in production.

Four presentations covering economic growth, inflation, unemployment and the balance of payments. Each presentation includes definitions, diagrams, causes and consequences, as well as evaluation that could be used.

An Edexcel macroeconomics news quiz in the style of Have I Got News for You. News is from 16/02/2016.

Economics key words say what you see game. Ideal for a fun macroeconomics starter activity.

A worksheet for an economics scattergories game. Pick a letter at random and students have to come up with an economics word that fits in each of the categories. A fun starter to get their minds working.