Schola Ludus – an idea of J. A. Comenius, famous Czech scholar, who is also known as the “teacher of
nations” – is an idea about the efficiency of use of active participation of students in the teaching-learning
process (Comenius, 1887). It is known that people generally learn better and the quality of learning is higher if
they are interested in the subject taught and if they are really interested in learning. Modern methods of teaching
can enhance the level of interest in learning and thus bring the subject itself to attention. Moreover, some modern teaching methods can even make it possible for students to partially shape the content of their learning based on
their needs and interests. Modern methods of teaching, if applied well, also enable one to take into account the
fact that each person has an individual style of learning, and thus needs appropriate conditions for it. Economic
class laboratory experiments, together with teaching cases, games, simulations, active presentations of students’
projects, e-learning as well as other methods represent such modern, interactive methods of teaching.
The goal of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about the role of laboratory experiments in teaching
social sciences disciplines, namely environmental economics. The paper is structured as follows: the role and
designing (economic) laboratory experiments in teaching-learning processes is shortly discussed first. A simple
case-study-based environmental economics lab experiment for two participants called the “Somewhere Peak Bay
Case” is presented in the second part of the paper.