Econiful’s professional development recordings are free for high school economics and personal finance teachers to watch on their own schedule, and they cover classroom activities you can see in action, course design and assessment, and conversations with economists, journalists, and other teachers.
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Economics Activities That Make Macroeconomics Stick (opens YouTube in a new tab)
Students trace how money moves through the economy, sort cards to see how economists think about the labor force, and play a fiscal policy board game in these three hands-on activities.
Activities in Action
Each workshop runs an Econiful lesson the way your students would experience it, so you can see how the activity plays out before you teach it, whether it comes from the opening unit, microeconomics, macroeconomics, or personal finance.
Economics Activities That Make Macroeconomics Stick (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 52 minutes
Students trace how money moves through the economy, sort cards to see how economists think about the labor force, and play a fiscal policy board game in these three hands-on activities.
Paychecks and Priorities: Income and Budgeting Lesson Plans (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 52 minutes
Two personal finance lessons walk students through paycheck deductions and a first budget, so they can see what they earn, what they keep, and how to spend in line with their priorities.
Economics Activities That Make Microeconomics Click (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 56 minutes
Megan Kirts runs three microeconomics simulations in which students trade in a coffee market, make decisions as a hat company, and discover how individual incentives lead to the overuse of a shared resource.
Economics Activities that Hook Students From Day One (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 47 minutes
Kathleen Cusack shares two activities for the first days of an economics course, a river rafting trip that introduces economic thinking and a bookmark project that makes the production possibilities frontier tangible.
Course Design and Assessment
These sessions step back from individual lessons to the larger decisions in an economics course, including how you write learning outcomes, what your assessments ask students to do, and how you use their feedback to adjust your teaching.
Ahead of the Curve: Implementing Performance-Based Assessments in Economics (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 42 minutes
This session looks closely at a performance-based assessment and shares practical ways to keep the grading and feedback manageable when students apply economics to real problems.
Improving Your Instruction with Student Feedback (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 38 minutes
Drawing on research about student feedback, this session shows how to collect, interpret, and act on what students tell you, with examples that include an exit ticket and a small focus group.
Economic Curriculum First-Day Essentials (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 45 minutes
This session covers how to write clear learning outcomes and a syllabus students will read, and it ends with a Google Slides syllabus template you can adapt for your own class.
Guest Speakers and Special Programs
Economists, journalists, and fellow teachers share the resources and ideas they have built through their own work, and these sessions are easy to watch on your own or to share with colleagues at a department meeting.
Crossroads: Where Economics, History, and Music Meet (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 56 minutes
Chris Cannon of the Georgia Council on Economic Education shares TeachRock lessons that use Library of Congress photographs, recordings, and lyrics to connect economics with U.S. history and American music.
Lights, Camera, Econ! Turning Economic Theory into Student Productions (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 49 minutes
Susanna McConnell shows how students can apply economic concepts by making their own videos, which can be anything from a quick concept trailer to a full explainer.
Six “Secret” Econ Resources: Fall 2026 (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 58 minutes
Abdullah Al Bahrani, Jacob Reed, and Justin Wolfers introduce Decode Econ, EconRocks, and Platypus Economics in this edition of Econiful’s recurring resource roundup, which also covers a few more classroom finds.
Ahead of the Curve 2026: Teacher Panel (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 45 minutes
Teachers who use Econiful share how they bring the lessons into their classrooms, how they make the curriculum their own, and which lessons have become their favorites.
Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Indicator with Wailin Wong (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 37 minutes
Wailin Wong, cohost of NPR’s The Indicator from Planet Money, shares three storytelling techniques from the show that teachers can use to help economic principles land with students.
Summer 2026 Book Club Kickoff with Benjamin Reed Shiller (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 31 minutes
Economist Benjamin Reed Shiller talks about his book AI Economics and the good and bad outcomes that could follow as AI spreads, which can help you answer the questions students are asking about their futures.
All Videos
Economics Activities That Make Macroeconomics Stick (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 52 minutes
Crossroads: Where Economics, History, and Music Meet (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 56 minutes
Lights, Camera, Econ! Turning Economic Theory into Student Productions (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 49 minutes
Six “Secret” Econ Resources: Fall 2026 (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 58 minutes
Paychecks and Priorities: Income and Budgeting Lesson Plans (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 52 minutes
Economics Activities That Make Microeconomics Click (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 56 minutes
Ahead of the Curve: Implementing Performance-Based Assessments in Economics (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 42 minutes
Improving Your Instruction with Student Feedback (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 38 minutes
Economic Curriculum First-Day Essentials (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 45 minutes
Ahead of the Curve 2026: Teacher Panel (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 45 minutes
Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Indicator with Wailin Wong (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 37 minutes
Economics Activities that Hook Students From Day One (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 47 minutes
Summer 2026 Book Club Kickoff with Benjamin Reed Shiller (opens YouTube in a new tab)
, 31 minutes













