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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Exchange Rates and Exchange: How Money Affects Trade

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn how currency values are set by supply and demand, and how changes in the value of currency affect international trade. Students then find the value of the Brazilian Real in 2000 and 2002, determine whether the currency has...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 11: Aggregate Demand in Keynesian Analysis

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain real GDP or real output, recessionary gaps, and inflationary gaps, recognize the Keynesian aggregate demand/aggregate supply model, identify the determining...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 12: Balancing Keynesian and Neoclassical Models

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Evaluate how neoclassical economists and Keynesian economists react to recessions and Analyze the interrelationship between the neoclassical and Keynesian economic models.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Economic Efficiency

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about consumer surplus, producer surplus, and deadweight loss. Did you know that demand and supply diagrams can help us understand more than supply and demand curves and equilibrium? They can also help us understand economic...
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Other

South Western Learning: Econ News: Comparative Statics: Perfect Competition

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers economics-based newspaper headlines and asks follow-up questions based on supply and demand in a perfectly competitive market.
Article
Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Market Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
In a market economy, the principles of supply and demand determine what is produced, how it is produced, and by whom it is produced and consumed. Learn how planned economies and mixed economies differ.
Website
Digital History

Digital History: The Farmer and the Depression [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the first laws passed in Franklin Roosevelt's first hundred days was the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Read about how it helped farmers in crisis. and how it was the forerunner of the federal farm program in existence today. [pdf]
Activity
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Principles of Macroeconomics: Business Cycles, Aggregate Demand and Supply

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive look at the way aggregate demand and supply affect the business cycle. Information used is current to 2003. From the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado.
Website
Robert Schenk, PhD

Cyber Economics

For Students 9th - 10th
An incredible site! This is an interactive textbook that clearly and concisely covers any topic you can think of under both microeconomics and macroeconomics. Select "Table of Contents" to begin.
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Other

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: The Economics of Pro Team Sports

For Students 9th - 10th
Great interactive baseball game that combines your knowledge of economics and pro sports trivia. After completing the nine innings, you should have a better understanding of how economics is used in everyday life.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Preface

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a preface to the TEA AP Macroeconomics Textbook online, an OpenStax resource. It provides an overview of the text, instructional materials available, the coverage and scope of the text, and the organization of the text.
Graphic
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Summary Table of Market Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
Chart that shows what happens to equilibrium price and quantity when both supply and demand remain constant or shift.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Producers and Consumers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will teach the difference between producers and consumers. It provides an interactive way for students to get involved and actually become producers and consumers.
Activity
University of Nebraska Omaha

Ec Ed Web: Analyzing the Demand Curve

For Students 9th - 10th
Lists the determinants of demand for a product and service. The site is useful for students wishing to look further into the causes of demands. Graphs and summaries are included to aid research.
Activity
Other

Law of Demand and Fundamental Analysis of Commodity Markets

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes the basic fundamentals of the law of demand. Charts and explanations are provided to aid in the process of research and learning.
Handout
Other

Economic Glossarama: Supply

For Students 9th - 10th
This economic glossary provides a definition of supply, and 2000 other economic terms and concepts.
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C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Labor Market

For Teachers 12th
A comprehensive learning module on the US labor market that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include economic trends that...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 12: The Building Blocks of Neoclassical Analysis

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain the importance of potential GDP in the long run, analyze the role of flexible prices, interpret a neoclassical model of aggregate demand and aggregate supply, and...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 12: The Policy Implications of the Neoclassical Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Discuss why and how inflation expectations are measured, Analyze the impacts of fiscal policy and monetary policy on aggregate supply and aggregate demand. Explain the...
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Other

Curriki: "Beautiful Art" Cultural Diffusion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is designed to give learners a conceptual understanding of cultural diffusion and the notion that ideas change people and people change ideas. It involves a teacher demonstration, student role-play, and an activity that...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Interpreting the Aggregate Demand/aggregate Supply Model

For Students 9th - 10th
In order for a macroeconomic model to be useful, it needs to show what determines total supply or total demand for the economy and how total demand and total supply interact at the macroeconomic level. This model is called the aggregate...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Aggregate Demand Aggregate Supply (Ad As) Model

For Students 9th - 10th
This study resource will help students understand, and create, graphs that are critical skills in macroeconomics. This article reviews the aggregate demand-aggregate supply (AD-AS) model.This resource is designed as a review for the AP...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Changes in Factor Demand and Supply

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you have learned about how changes in the supply of labor and the demand for labor affect wages and employment. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Microeconomics Test or a college-level microeconomics course.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 10: Macroeconomic Perspectives on Demand and Supply

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain Say's Law and determine whether it applies in the short run or the long run and Explain Keynes' Law and determine whether it applies in the short run or the long run.