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Council for Economic Education

Econedlink: Business Cycles

For Students 9th - 10th
This video teaches the concept of Business Cycles. The pattern in which economies have periods of recession and then also periods of economic expansion or recovery is known as the business cycle.
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Council for Economic Education

Econedlink: Price Ceilings and Floors Video and Quiz

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This video teaches the concept of Price Ceilings and Floors. A price ceiling is a legally established maximum price while a price floor is a legally established minimum price. The website contains an interactive quiz and links for...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 4: Labor and Financial Markets: Review Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a list of eight review study questions covering the information in Chapter 4: Labor and Financial Markets.
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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]
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Serving Up Economics

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan describes how students can use a restaurant setting to study the basic concepts of economics, while they learn business, math, and even get to eat.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Early American Trade With China: American Ideas About Trade [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
American businessmen in the late 18th and 19th centuries were very interested in finding markets all over the world for their goods and actively pursuing opportunities for foreign trade. The young nation needed to earn money to pay back...
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Other

South Western Learning: Econ News: Perfect Competition

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a variety of economics-related newspaper headlines in perfectly competitive markets, and each headline offers discussion questions related to that topic.
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Econoclass

Econoclass: Resources for Economic Teachers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A site with resources for teachers teaching high school economics.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Producers and Consumers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This activity will teach the difference between producers and consumers. It provides an interactive way for students to get involved and actually become producers and consumers.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Crude Oil, Hydrocarbons and Alkanes

For Students 9th - 10th
Crude oil is a finite resource. Petrol and other fuels are produced from it using fractional distillation. Cracking is used to convert long alkanes into shorter, more useful hydrocarbons. Links are provided for a video and a test.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Is Competition?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore the world of competition in business through this informative lesson plan.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Widget Production: Producing More Using Less

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Through this economics lesson you will learn about widget production. One of the tasks is to see how productivity can help solve problems.
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University of Nebraska Omaha

Ec Ed Web: Andersonville Prison: An Economic Microcosm

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides a lesson plan that investigates concepts of scarcity, economic wants, command economic systems, market economic systems, and markets and prices.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Charles I

For Students 9th - 10th
Charles I (1625-1649) was a far abler ruler than his father. He was a man of greater courage and more dignity of character, but he had been trained from infancy in the belief of his divine right to fule, and he chose ministers who...
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Curated OER

Official Paul Krugman Web Page: The Energy Crisis Revisited

For Students 9th - 10th
Analysis of the energy crisis of the 70s. An oil chart to illustrate the supply and demand curve.
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Curated OER

Official Paul Krugman Web Page: The Energy Crisis Revisited

For Students 9th - 10th
Analysis of the energy crisis of the 70s. An oil chart to illustrate the supply and demand curve.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Price Floor

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains, using graphs, how a price floor work, and how an effective price floor will create a surplus in a market.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Economics Vocabulary

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains basic economics vocabulary such as producers, consumers, and different kinds of resources; limited, unlimited, natural and human. Student assessment items are included.
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Other

The Silver Institute: Silver Production

For Students 9th - 10th
This page gives detailed information about world silver production. Contains graphs and charts of the production of various countries and top-producing companies.

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