Micromotives and Macrobehavior Activities & Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Social modeling

Choose one of the models Schelling describes, and use it to design a strategy for changing a certain behavior.

2. Parodying Micromotives and Macrobehavior

Parody Schelling's propositions and models by proposing satirical propositions and models for some phenomena. Be nice.

3. Micromotives: the musical

Compose songs and choreograph dances based on Micromotives and Macrobehavior.

4. Talk show: Individual preferences and aggregate behaviors

Stage a talk show in which an individual preference and an aggregate behavior sit on the couch...
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