Looking to spice up the way you quiz your students? Try using Kahoot! to teach economics.
Kahoots for use in macroeconomics courses
This Kahoot! is designed as a formative assessment on the general topic of unemployment. Students must correctly identify whether the person described in employed, unemployed or not in the labor force.
This Kahoot! is publicly available!
Course Used: Principles of Macro, Labor
Quiz Nature: Concept Review
Question Length: 7
Estimated Time to Play: 10 minutes
This Kahoot! provides covers the banking system and the role of money in an economy. A large portion of the questions focus on the characteristics of money, including unit of account, store of value, and medium of exchange. For the banking portion, it divides the role of banks in a financial market, but also for banking customers.
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Course Used: Principles of Macro, Money & Banking
Quiz Nature: Concept review
Question Length: 25
Estimated Time to Play: 30-45 minutes
This Kahoot! provides an introduction to economics and can be used for both a principles of microeconomics, principles of macroeconomics, or a survey of economics course. The main questions in this Kahoot! revolve around the concepts of scarcity, opportunity cost, and factors of production.
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Course Used: Principles of Micro, Principles of Macro, Survey of Economics
Quiz Nature: Concept review
Question Length: 25
Estimated Time to Play: 30-45 minutes
Understanding the difference between a change in demand and a change in the quantity demanded is crucial to success in any principles course. This question will stump many of your students but not all. Pro tip: once the correct answer is revealed, ask one of your students to explain the answer!
Course Used: Principles of Micro
Quiz Nature: Discussion Starter
Question Length: 1
Estimated Time to Play: 15-20 minutes.
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This three-question set covers movements along the supply curves versus shifters. This is a great way assess concept mastery.
Course Used: Principles of Micro
Quiz Nature: Concept Review
Question Length: 3
Estimated Time to Play: 5-8 minutes.
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This review from the University of San Diego covers foundations, comparative advantage, the PPF, and supply and demand.
Course Used: Principles of Micro
Quiz Nature: Exam Review
Question Length: 8
Estimated Time to Play: 12-15 minutes.
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This quick short quiz starts easy and gets harder for most students. It is best to play this Kahoot after going through the PPC thoroughly. Most students miss question 4 on whether unemployment shifts the PPC in or not.
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Course Used: Principles of Micro, Principles of Macro
Quiz Nature: Concept Review
Question Length: 5
Estimated Time to Play: Less than 10 minutes.
This Kahoot was used as a review for ECON 3 at the University of California at San Diego. The review begins with questions on economic growth then switches to savings and investment and the last two questions touch on the monetary system.
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Course Used: Principles of Macro
Quiz Nature: Exam Review
Question Length: 11 Questions
Estimated Time to Play: 17-22 minutes
This Kahoot! was used as a review for ECON 3 at the University of California at San Diego. The review covers fiscal and monetary policy extensively and some international.
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Course Used: Principles of Macro
Quiz Nature: Exam Review
Question Length: 10 Questions
Estimated Time to Play: 15-20 minutes
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Economics is a Kahoot! 