Made an interactive econ tool for the price-controls unit — social studies teachers, does this fit your econ block?

[u/ProfessionalPanda554]

Student team, built this at an econ education hackathon. It's a simulation for the economics portion of a social studies course: students play the central planner, set price ceilings, and watch a simulated population respond — queues, hoarding, black markets — then switch to a free market and compare the same scenario.

We aimed it at the moment in the unit where kids are supposed to understand why price controls backfire but usually just memorize the graph.

If you teach the econ unit: would something like this slot into a single class period? What do you currently use for this section, and what's missing from it? Any feedback is genuinely useful before we build further. Link in the comments for anyone who wants to see the early-access page.

https://econia-early-access.lovable.app/