Travis R. Martin, CPA, MBA

Students assemble their own mutual funds, that seek to protect investors in the event of a Black Swan, in this project based learning activity for an integrated World History/Economics class.

Project Based Economics covering Black Swans and Mutual Funds in an integrated World History/Economics course.

Discussion of first workshop in the Vanguard Black Swan Fund project for History of Globalization class. Project uses a project based learning approach.

How does project-based learning work in practice? See the process step-by-step using an integrated World History/Economics class as an example.

Students act as Investment Managers for Vanguard funds and create a mutual fund that provides investors with protection should a Black Swan-type event occur.

High School students learn about economic incentives in this hands-on activity and discussion.

In this post, I thought I would offer a few of the PowerPoint slides I use to lead classroom discussions on stocks, as well as a few of the worksheets I use

Unless you are teaching an AP Economics class, you probably aren’t going to get a lot of students to read Adam Smith.

Thankfully, there are ways that you can introduce some of the important concepts from Classical Economics without going right to the source.

It was a good arrangement while it lasted. For the past twenty years aspiring scientists, engineers and managers from around the world migrated to the United States in hopes of building lucrative careers. The immigrants, largely from India and Asia, reaped the benefits that go along with prestigious, high-paying jobs while the U.S. furthered its [...]

If you were a kid growing up in New York City during the 1950’s, and you were a baseball fan, you did not have to look too far for a baseball idol. Between Willie (Mays), Mickey (Mantle) and The Duke (Snider) you had it made. As a baseball fan growing up in rural Southern Indiana [...]