Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Economic Community

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders assume different jobs of a community and understand the terms goods, services, producer, and consumer. In this community lesson plan, 4th graders answer short answer questions to show their knowledge of the terms.
Activity
Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble

Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Linear Cost, Revenue, and Profit

For Students 9th - 10th
The tutorial explores linear models. Students learn about the concepts through class notes, examples, and practice problems. Topics include linear cost, revenue, and profit. Review exercises and a chapter quiz are included.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Explicit and Implicit Costs and Accounting and Economic Profit

For Students 9th - 10th
There are different ways of thinking about costs and profit. Read about what they are and answer the review questions.
Interactive
Council for Economic Education

Econedlink: Profit Video and Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
This video teaches the concept of Profit. Profit is income received for entrepreneurial skills or risk taking and is calculated by subtracting a firm's costs of producing a good or service from the revenues received from selling the good...
Activity
Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Lesson 1: Production Costs

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides a good outline for a unit on the study of "production costs". Charts and graphs are provided to help understand a firm's cost curves, and at what level of production they should produce.
Lesson Plan
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Breakeven Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, learners perform breakeven analysis using the cost and revenue of an enterprise. They will determine the relationship between fixed and variable costs, profits, pricing policy, and the volume of output.
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Graphing Lab: Moose Synthesizer Co.

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive economics lab, students help Albert Moose determine how to price his product, music synthesizers, based on costs and revenue. Students create supply curves to help in the decision process.
Study Guide
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Marginal Cost, Marginal Revenue

For Students 9th - 10th
Business applications of derivatives are widely used. Marginal revenue, cost, and profit functions that you can find by taking the respective derivatives of revenue, cost, or profit would provide very valuable information to a business....
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: How Perfectly Competitive Firms Make Output Decisions

For Students 9th - 10th
See examples of how perfectly competitive firms decide how much to produce.