I have taught A Level Economics at a range of schools using different pedagogical techniques. I want to make my lessons as interesting and engaging as possible and so create all my own content from scratch, which I am keen to share with you. I try to push boundaries, be creative in my approach and give students a learning experience that goes beyond simply passing their exams.
I have taught A Level Economics at a range of schools using different pedagogical techniques. I want to make my lessons as interesting and engaging as possible and so create all my own content from scratch, which I am keen to share with you. I try to push boundaries, be creative in my approach and give students a learning experience that goes beyond simply passing their exams.
A two page applied economics worksheet that looks at whether or not the UK should remove 1p coins from circulation and includes suggested answers.
It is a useful worksheet in testing students understanding and looks at both macroeconomic and microeconomic arguments for removing them.
A five page worksheet that uses a London Underground as a case study to apply behavioural economics and nudge principles to. The topics covered on the sheet are:
An illustration of how decision making can be impaired when using the London Underground tube map
Defining key behavioural economics terms
Whether or not behavioural economics should be used by London Underground
How behavioural economics can be used to change passenger behaviour
A seperate document contains suggested teacher answers.
IMPORTANT: There are two versions of each document, one is a PDF and one is a word document so it can be edited. The content of the documents is the same.
A fun worksheet asking students to find the stations on the HS2 route by answering true or false questions, estimate future demand for rail travel and consider the advantages and disadvantages of HS2. Can be used for many topics or revision. Topics include:
- Supply side policies
- Externalities
- Inequality
- Economic growth
- Unemployment
& more!
This resource also includes suggested teacher answers.
The fundamental economic problem worksheet with questions on opportunity cost, ceteris paribus, assumptions, infinite wants and finite resources and positive and normative statements. This is the first worksheet I give my students once we have covered some basic concepts.
A game that introduces some economic concepts to new students such as utility, inequality in wealth, objectives and functions of money. The game require each student to be given a small bag of differing amount of sweets, then they follow the three rounds and have a class discussion. I have also included a sheet which I print in A3 then get students to write down what kind of questions economics answer and topics we may study.
This resource contains two worksheets designed to challenge students and apply their knowledge of behavioural economics to solve market failures in the fast food market and increase household recycling. Both worksheets come with suggested teacher answers and can prompt a good discussion at the end of the lesson when deciding whether nudges are more effective in the fast food market or to encourage recycling. The worksheets are different difficulties, with the recycling worksheet being the more difficult of the two.
An economic cycle worksheet where students have to decide what stage of the business cycle each characteristic is at and calculate an interpret an output index. Includes suggested teacher answers.
An income elasticity of demand lesson starter activity where students have to guess why demand fell for these goods during the 2008 recession. I have also included some potential answers on a second worksheet.
This bundle includes over 20 AQA Economics A2 Microeconomics Presentations including:
- Monopoly
- Price Discrimination
- Oligopoly
- Monopolistic Competition
- Perfect Competition
- Shut Down Point
- Competition Policy
- Firms Costs in the Short Run
- Firms Costs in the Long Run
- Revenue
- Economic Efficiency
- Externalities
- Public Goods
- Inequality and Poverty
- Environmental Market Failure
- Demand for Labour
- Supply of Labour
- Trade Unions
- Monopsony
- Minimum Wage
This is a short handout I give to students who want to understand why sometimes the PPF curve is curved and at other times it is straight. As an extension task they are asked to show why the opportunity cost increases when approaching specialisation.
This worksheet gets students to think of (and draw) the characteristics of homo economicus and how useful a theory it is to economists today. There is also a completed worksheet with suggested teacher answers.
I use these worksheets at the start of teaching Behavioural Economics, before students have learnt anything about it. They complete the 'How rational are you?' worksheet and later in the course once they have learnt about the topic they will review their answers and see where they were affected by cognitive biases. This session opens up much discussion and includes teacher answers and a quantitative skills extension task using data from the class.
A fun game that can be used for revision or a starter activity that gets students to identify in teams the negative externalities in the diagram sheet in turn. They will be awarded with 10 points for every correct diagram they select. However, if they choose a wrong diagram there is a wipeout and they start back at zero points. The winning team will be the one who has the most points at the end of the game.
This two page economics worksheet is topical for the upcoming elections and could be used as a end of year lesson, for revision, or during lessons on supply side policies. It gets students to analyse the impacts of each of the proposed policies and justify their opinions. The policies are:
- Reducing corporation tax
- Making university education free
- Restricting immigration
There are also two extension questions for students who need a stretch and challenge. This resource also includes some suggested teacher answers.
There are two documents in this resource. The first 'conflict tables activity' gets students to identify how economic growth may conflict with the other macroeconomic objectives themselves. They must provide a balanced answer and complete the table. The answers to this worksheet are on the second document 'conflict tables analysis or evaluation'. Here potential conflicts are explained and students must identify whether they are analysis statements or evaluative statements. You could use this second document as teacher answers, for a short starter activity, as a pre-exam handout or to help struggling students. You could also extend the activity by getting students to draw diagrams that support each of the macroeconomic objectives examined.
The macroeconomic objectives examined in relation to economic growth are:
- Inflation
- Unemployment
- Balance of Trade
- Environmental Objectives
- Income Inequality
- Government Budget Deficit
1 x Powerpoint
3 x Worksheet
This resource includes a powerpoint on unemployment for the A Level Economics specification, a worksheet on the problems of unemployment where students discuss to what extent each type of unemployment is costly to the economy a worksheet that categorises different rates of unemployment in regions of the UK and some policies to correct it and limitations of the measures of unemployment, and a worksheet that assesses the remainder of the policies.
This resource is a game that gets students to work together and solve the tasks to find the letters for the eight letter password to the safe.
However, it is a very secure safe and the password will change every five minutes, so students must work efficiently and together in order to break it.
There are six tasks that need to be completed
Task 1 - Cost push or demand pull inflation
Task 2 - AS macroeconomics definitions
Task 3 - Index numbers and other calculations (multiplier and real values)
Task 4 - General macroeconomics questions
Task 5 - Automatic stabilisers
Task 6 - Shifts in SRAS and AD
They vary in difficulty and so tasks can be given to differentiate between different abilities. You can also do it as a challenge by spitting the class into two groups and seeing who gets the answer first. Or you could just use the different tasks as worksheets or revision activities.
I would get the students to prove how they got the answer, as if they get the first 4 letters they may be able to guess the remainder without working it out for themselves.
I have uploaded all tasks in word format and editable pdf formats. It took my quickest group 25 minutes to solve and my slowest group 45 mins.
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.
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.