Free interactive models, data explorers and quizzes for high school economics students
Welcome to Brettonomics
Brettonomics is the place for interactive economics. Every tool here is built to be explored — shift a curve, change a tariff, adjust the cash rate, and watch what happens.
The site is structured around the QCE Economics syllabus, with Units 1 to 4 mapped topic by topic, so Queensland Year 11 and 12 students can find exactly what they need for class, assessment and revision.
But economics is economics. If you're studying or teaching senior high school economics anywhere — in any state or any country — the models, data explorers and quizzes work just as well.
All resources are free to use. I hope you find them useful!
Most-used interactives
Online tutoring in Economics for Australian senior secondary students, and especially Queensland students working towards their QCE.
My approach is to challenge you. Rather than hand over answers, I'll help you build your own learning strategies and thinking structures, so you do well in your school assessments and in whatever you study after school. It works particularly well for Year 12 students juggling a research report and exam preparation at the same time.
I began posting Brettonomics videos to YouTube in 2023, focused on unpacking questions from past Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) external exam papers in Economics.
These videos have had a real impact on student outcomes. They give students working through past papers as practice exams the chance to dig into the marking guide in detail, and from there build strong writing structures and response strategies. Students can work independently, at their own pace, revisiting concepts as often as they need. Many use the videos to pre-learn topics ahead of class, which leads to deeper engagement once they're in the room — and by working through marking guides themselves, they build skills in assessing their own work and giving feedback to peers using rubrics.
This website extends that same idea into a full sequence of interactive activities built around the QCE Economics curriculum — though the resources are equally useful for high school economics teachers and students anywhere in the world.
My focus here is turning economic theory, models and data from static to dynamic, through interactive models, data explorer tools, calculators and simulations that bring the changes happening in the economy to life. Rather than working through a price mechanism diagram in a textbook, students can watch the shifts happen in real time on screen. Calculators and simulators let them test how a change in government policy plays out. And data analysis is grounded in real historical economic events and the policy responses that followed them.
Alongside the interactives, I also share teaching activities that use experiential learning techniques to engage students in the classroom.
Brettonomics has always been an individual project, built outside my normal teaching duties. I hope you find something useful here.
About Brett
I'm a registered secondary school teacher in Queensland, Australia, qualified to teach Economics, Business and Legal Studies. I hold undergraduate qualifications in Economics and Industrial Relations, and a Master of Teaching (Secondary).
Before teaching, I worked in the private sector, leading a small business through design, manufacture and sales to retail, government and private-sector customers, both in-store and online. After selling that business in 2014, I spent a few years on creative projects and study before starting my teaching career in 2020.
I'm currently on a three-year sabbatical from classroom teaching, based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and expect to return to Australia in early 2028.
Outside teaching, I'm a keen cyclist, skier and kayaker, and I've played percussion in bands for many years. I speak English and Spanish, and I'm working toward fluency in Dutch over the next few years.
Please note
All resources on this site are free to use. All resources remain the intellectual property of the author.