Teaching Economics with Breaking Bad

2023

jeconteach

The Walt Disney Company, and its subsidiaries, are responsible for some of the most popular movies in existence. One of the things that makes the classic Disney movie unique is its soundtracks. Many of the movies have key songs that can be used to teach various economics concepts in the high school and postsecondary classroom. We provide three detailed lesson plans that outline how to use Disney music to teach foundational concepts, but also include a more extensive table that includes concepts covered in a variety of Disney songs.

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Most Magical Way to Teach: Disney Music In The Classroom

Jaeger

2023

jeconteach

“…The field has evolved to specifically show how this media can be used in the classroom. Some educators (Geerling et al 2018;Lipford and Rood 2019;Muchiri et al 2021) take the broadest approach to using television clips by developing multiple lesson plans that cover a variety of topics that could be used in a particular course. Others have focused on using media to target particular concepts like how markets work (Kuester and Mateer 2018;Rousu 2018;Mateer, and Vachris 2017); game theory (Burke, Robak, and Stumpf 2018;Geerling, Mateer, and Addler 2020); marginal revenue product (Wooten and White 2018), and the Coase Theorem (Murphy, Schuler, and Wooten 2020).…”

Section: Using Media In the Classroommentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching economics using scenes from <i>Superstore</i>

Lynch

2021

IJPEE

Superstore follows a group of employees working at Cloud 9, a fictional big-box retailer in Missouri. The television show aired on NBC for 6 seasons and offers economic educators an abundance of scenes that can be used to teach undergraduate economics. All of the scenes mentioned in the lesson plans, and many more, are freely available online on the Teaching with Superstore website. A benefit of using a show like Superstore to teach economics is that it features a diverse cast and a familiar setting to any student who has shopped in a big box retailer. We highlight four episodes that are rich in teaching content and include assessment questions that instructors can assign in their classrooms. Each of the scenes outlined in the paper pose a particular economic problem faced by characters on the show with clear pedagogical economic concepts.

“…There are currently over 550 scenes posted to the site with clip descriptions and tags for ease of navigation. Most of the clips on the site are not the same clips found on show-specific websites like Economics of Parks and Recreation (Wooten and Staub 2019), Economics of Modern Family (Wooten, Staub, and Reilly 2020), or Economics of Breaking Bad (Muchiri, Paraschiv, and Wooten 2021). All posts on the site are divided into categories for principles of microeconomics and macroeconomics topics, as well as field courses in behavioral, game theory, labor, health, and econometrics.…”

Section: Economics Media Librarymentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching Principles of Microeconomics with the Economics Media Library

Hobbs

2020

SSRN Journal

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We provide eleven short exercises that can be used in a principles of microeconomics classroom that incorporate media clips from the Economics Media Library (http://econmedialibrary.com/). The exercises have been used in both small and large classroom settings and take less than 15 minutes to complete. These teaching guides can be a helpful first step for educators interested in introducing small activities to engage students in the classroom.