Teaching Cost-Benefit Analysis through Climate-related examples

Impact of Climate Change on Teaching Cost-Benefit Analysis through Climate-related examples Overview Overview As an undergraduate Economics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching cost-benefit analysis. This lesson plan will help students to understand the principles of cost-benefit analysis. The activities will allow students to apply cost-benefit analysis […]

Capitalism and Climate Change

Capitalism and Climate Change Overview Overview As an undergraduate Economics or Social Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching about Capitalism, Capitalist Modes of Production, History of Capitalism, Consumerism, Materials Economy and its effect on climate change. Students will learn about the history of capitalism- the factors […]

Carbon Pricing: Shadow and Market Prices

Impact of Climate Change on Carbon Pricing: Shadow and Market Prices Overview As an undergraduate Economics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach the concept of Carbon Pricing and the instruments to implement it- Carbon Tax and Cap-and-Trade/Emissions Trading System (ETS). This lesson plan includes a resource to help students understand […]

Agrarian Civilizations: Agriculture in the Nile Basin

Impact of Climate Change on Agrarian Civilizations: Agriculture in the Nile Basin Overview As a High School History or Economics or Agricultural Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach about the rise of agriculture and the concomitant rise of agrarian societies/civilizations. This lesson plan will show how Egyptian Civilization thrived […]

Teaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Teaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Overview As a High School or Undergraduate Economics or Social Sciences teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach about the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as outlined by the United Nations for nations to adopt and work towards, for a sustainable future. This lesson plan […]

Marxist Theories and Climate Change

Marxist Theories and Climate Change Overview Overview As an Undergraduate Economics or Social Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching social theoriesin Marxism. This lesson plan will allow you to introduce Marxism in social theory taught across Sociology, Political Science, Economics, and other disciplines. It includes teaching […]

Environmental Economics: Cap-and-Trade

Environmental Economics: Cap-and-Trade Overview As an Undergraduate Economics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching climate mitigation environmental policies and specifically about the cap-and-trade system. This lesson plan allows you to teach about economic policy responses to climate change. This lesson plan includes resources to explain various policy […]

Measuring Value of Abatement for Climate Policy

Impact of Climate Change on Measuring Value of Abatement for Climate Policy Overview Overview As an Undergraduate Economics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching about implementation of environmental policies by measuring the value of abatement. This lesson plan will enable you to teach your students about assessing […]

Teaching Opportunity Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Teaching Opportunity Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Overview Overview As an Undergraduate Economics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching about opportunity costs using an in-class experiment of trading emissions permits for the use of a hypothetical fuel that emits greenhouse gases. Global warming due to greenhouse gas […]

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic Policy for ‘Green Recovery’

Impact of Climate Change on The COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic Policy for ‘Green Recovery’ Overview As an Undergraduate Economics teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach your students how countries around the world design economic policies for a ‘green recovery’ from the economic downturn due to the COVID-19 pandemic, by reducing carbon emissions while […]