Students are confused about how to evaluate online information. This project helps students learn to critically evaluate and ʺjudge the credibility of digital information about social and political issues.ʺ (USA: Stanford University 2019)

The Stanford History Education Group (SHEG), based in Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, provides short assessments to evaluate online content (USA 2022).

How do we know when the economy is in a recession? How do key economic indicators perform in a downturn? In this New York Times lesson, students create graphs of various economic measurements, using quantitative and qualitative reasoning skills to compare, contrast and correlate the performance of measures like gross domestic product, unemployment and personal ...

These lessons use economic reasoning to suggest a new way to think about our use of the resource water. In brief, the lessons assert: (1) that in economic terms, water is not fundamentally different from any other resource, good, or service; and (2) that many of the answers to our concerns about water conservation and water quality can be found in markets, the same institution ...

The lesson provides insight into what makes musicians fans or opponents of digital streaming. Cost/benefit analysis and identifying incentives are the economic reasoning tools used in this lesson to understand why artists’ stance on streaming is rational, whether they give it a thumbs up or thumbs down (USA: FTE 2018).