Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 1)
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S.government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. In this series of three lessons, the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 10: Macroeconomic Perspectives on Demand and Supply
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Short Run Aggregate Supply
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to short-run aggregate supply. Topics include sticky wage theory and menu cost theory, as well as the causes of short-run aggregate supply shocks.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 9: The National Saving and Investment Identity
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain the determinants of trade and current account balance, Identify and calculate supply and demand for financial capital, Explain how a nation's balance of trade is...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Long Run Aggregate Supply
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to the long-run aggregate supply curve and its relationship to the stock of resources, technology, and the natural rate of unemployment.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Henry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study in Productivity (Part 3)
Henry Ford's use of mass production strategies to manufacture the Model T revolutionized industrial manufacturing. This 3-part learning unit provides students with the story of Henry Ford and the Model T from an economics perspective....
PBS
Pbs: Graffiti Art: Supplies
Learn how to calculate the area of paintings and shapes as graffiti artist Scape Martinez uses math to plan the supplies required for his artwork in this video from the Center for Asian American Media. In the accompanying classroom...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Happened to Railroads?
Between the Civil War and World War II, railroads were one of the nation's most important businesses and an integral part of people's lives. In this lesson, students assume the role of detectives investigating why the rail companies...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le, a Rei Population and Food Supply
In this task, students analyze the sizes of a country's population and of its food supply to determine when and if food shortages will occur. To solve it, they must construct and compare linear and exponential functions and find where...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Early American Trade With China: Fortune and Failures in Fur [Pdf]
One of the things economists do is to study the relationship between the supply of products being sold on the market, the demand for products by consumers, and the price of products. They look at how price is determined by the...
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: Analyzing the Demand Curve
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.
Other
Gazillionaire
Play the game of business strategy. Wheel and deal to "determine where supply meets demand." Fun way to learn about the business world.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Market Economy
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.
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: Explorations in Economic Demand
This site provides an analysis of the theory of demand, and determinants that can cause a shift or change in demand.
Curated OER
The Supply Curve
This site provides a supply schedule, a related supply curve, and factors (supply determinants) which can cause your supply curve to shift to the left or right.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ch. 13: Money and Banking: How Banks Create Money
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Utilize the money multiplier formulate to determine how banks create money, analyze and create T-account balance sheets, evaluate the risks and benefits of money and banks.