Crash Course
Intro to Economics
There's an opportunity cost to everything you do, but it's minimal when you're learning about an applicable topic like economics. Join the Crash Course team as they introduce a 35-part video series on economics and briefly address some...
TED-Ed
Neil deGrasse Tyson Replies to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
President Abraham Lincoln may not be the first name that comes up when discussing scientific advancement in the last two centuries, but Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson believes that Lincoln's efforts during the Civil War...
PBS
Chinese New Year
Dancing dragons, fireworks, red envelopes, and loud music are the familiar images of Chinese New Year celebrations. The holiday, also know as Lunar New Year and/or the Spring festival is also a religious holiday that combines...
TED-Ed
How to Understand Power
Where does power come from, and why does it matter? This video will spark engaged thought and conversation amongst your class as it discusses the origins of power, how it's exercised, and what young learners can do to...
Classroom Clips
First Continental Congress (Part II)
Supplement your traditional textbook chapter with this instructional video on the first Continental Congress, which highlights key points such as the passage of the Intolerable Acts, boycott of British goods, and primary...
Jacob Clifford
Intro- Imperfect Competition
Before you delve into a series of videos on microeconomics and imperfect competition, watch this video to get a general overview of the unit's key points, such as how demand in a monopoly is identified on a graph, oligopolies, and...
Jacob Clifford
Monopoly Demand and MR
Why is marginal revenue less than the demand curve for all perfectly competitive firms in a monopoly? Watch as a savvy economics instructor answers this question using graphs and detailed explanations.
Jacob Clifford
Resource Market, MRP and MRC
Young economists practice calculating the number of workers a firm should hire in a perfectly competitive labor market to maximize profit, as well as the given output of a perfectly competitive product market.
Jacob Clifford
Comparing Product and Resource Markets
Your young economists will compare the product and resource markets in two perfectly competitive firms by following along with this brief tutorial by an engaging economics instructor.
Jacob Clifford
Perfectly Competitive Labor Market and Firm
What happens in a perfectly competitive labor market? Here is a video in which an economics instructor explains how workers and firms must set their wages based on the market
Jacob Clifford
Market and Minimum Wage: Econ Concepts in 60 Seconds
Watch this savvy economics instructor as he explains the direct and inverse relationships between wages and the quantity of workers demanded and supplied in a resource market.
TED-Ed
It's a Church. It's a Mosque. It's Hagia Sophia
The artistic intricacies of the Hagia Sophia are highlighted and creatively woven together with illustrations of its rich history in this engaging, animated video. Viewers will take a close look at highlights of the...
Jacob Clifford
Intro - Costs of Production and Perfect Competition
Here is a brief introduction to the concepts covered in an economics course unit on the costs of production and perfect competition.
Jacob Clifford
Four Market Structures Simulation
Here is a fantastic resource in which you will watch as an instructor models a simulation conducted in an economics class on the four market structures (perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, monopoly).
Jacob Clifford
MR = MC Practice
Given quantity, total cost, and a perfectly competitive firm, how much should an organization produce and what will be the profit? Watch as the concept of profit maximization is broken down and explained with real-time illustrations and...
Jacob Clifford
Cost Curves MC, ATC, AVC, and AFC
What is the concept of a cost curve, and how are they used? Watch as this instructor demonstrates and explains marginal cost curve, average total cost, average variable cost, and average fixed cost.
Jacob Clifford
Perfect Competition in the Short Run
What exactly is perfect competition, one of the four market structures, in economics?
Jacob Clifford
Perfect Competition in the Long Run
What happens in the long run when there is time for firms to enter and leave a market in perfect competition?
Jacob Clifford
The Shut Down Rule
When prices fall below a certain point, why does that cause a shut down? Using the concept of fixed costs and losses, and by drawing on a sample graph, watch as this instructor explains the shut down rule of economics.
Jacob Clifford
Marginal Product and Marginal Cost
Help your learners get a better handle on marginal cost and product curves, and review the process of completing charts and graphs associated with this concept.
Jacob Clifford
Comparative Advantage: Econ Concepts in 60 Seconds
Walk your learners step-by-step through the process of creating a comparative advantage chart with a sample problem involving the production of cars and rice on a production possibilities curve.
Jacob Clifford
Production Possibilities Curve and Opportunity Cost
What happens when the resources used as part of a production possibilities curve are not easily adaptable to produce both goods? Watch as an economics instructor uses an example of an economy producing pizzas and robots in...
Jacob Clifford
Classical vs. Keynesian Aggregate Supply
What is the difference between the Classical and Keynesian models of economics with regard to price levels and the aggregate supply graphs?
Jacob Clifford
Economic Growth
With an increase in investment, what happens to aggregate demand, aggregate supply, and eventually, long-run aggregate supply? Here you'll find a great explanation of how greater long-run aggregate supply correlates to a wide...