Lesson Plans for Teaching with Parks and Recreation

Wooten, Jadrian; Staub, Kalina

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3850677

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Lesson Plans for Teaching with Parks and Recreation

16 Pages Posted: 24 May 2021 Last revised: 6 Dec 2022

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Jadrian Wooten

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Kalina Staub

Department of Economics; University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Economics

Date Written: December 5, 2022

Abstract

Parks and Recreation was a hit NBC showed that aired from 2009 to 2015. The show contains numerous examples of economic concepts and principles that can be used in the classroom. We outline 5 lesson plans on topics from the show that can be used to supplement an instructor's current teaching. Topics include comparative economic systems, market structures, government bailouts, government intervention, and labor market discrimination. All of the scenes are available online at EconomicsOfParksAndRec.com

Keywords: teaching economics, economics education, lesson plans

JEL Classification: A21, A22

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Wooten, Jadrian and Staub, Kalina, Lesson Plans for Teaching with Parks and Recreation (December 5, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3850677 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3850677