The Environmental Literacy Council
Environmental Literacy Council: Supply and Demand: How Markets Work
An article on supply and demand and how markets work. Related links for teachers.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Supply and Demand, Lessons From Toy Fads.
The concepts of supply and demand and related terms are taught through stories about the toy fads of Hula Hoops and Silly Bandz. In 1958, Wham-O, Inc. began marketing the Hula Hoop in the United States and sales of the Hula Hoops...
California State University
California State University, Chico: Demand and Supply
A large graphical slideshow that covers the definition of demand and supply, non-price determinants of demand and supply, and reasons for these conditions.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 3: Demand and Supply: Review Questions
This is a list of 24 review questions covering the content of Chapter 3: Demand and Supply from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Keynes' Law and Say's Law in the Ad/as Model
Compare Keynes's and Say's law in the context of aggregate supply and demand.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Market Equilibrium
The actual price you see in the world is a balancing act between supply and demand.
Ohio Test Prep
Ohio Test Prep: Module 8: Economics Concepts
Ohio Test Prep on fundamental concepts teaches about supply and demand, scarcity, and trade. Includes video tutorials, interactive practice and review, and assessment.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Demand, Supply, and Markets
This site discusses in great detail the differences between demand, supply, and markets. Useful economic terminology is identified in bold.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Economic Efficiency
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...
Robert Schenk, PhD
Cyber Economics
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.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Labor Economics and Public Policy
An introductory course in labor economics from MIT. Emphasizes applied microeconomics and empirical analysis. Includes suggested readings, assignments, and exams.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Curves
This article explains how the concepts of supply and demand can be applied to the economy as a whole. Includes examples of an aggregate demand curve and an aggregate supply curve, and review questions at the end.
Tutor2u
Tutor2u: Theory of Supply
This site provides a simple definition of market supply and the supply curve. Illustrates concept with a graph.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Prices Are Changing
This lesson will help students to understand how markets are created by the interaction of buyers and sellers, what demand and supply are, what equilibrium price is, and how demand and supply interact with price changes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Overview: Consumer and Producer Surplus
This lesson introduced the basics of a branch of economics known as welfare economics, which is interested in how the allocation of resources affects well-being. The most important concepts used in welfare analysis are total surplus and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Price Ceilings and Price Floors
This article discusses how quantity demanded react to artificial constraints on price.
Other
South Western Learning: Econ News: Comparative Statics: Perfect Competition
This site offers economics-based newspaper headlines and asks follow-up questions based on supply and demand in a perfectly competitive market.
Econoclass
Econoclass: Resources for Economic Teachers
A site with resources for teachers teaching high school economics.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Serving Up Economics
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Price Controls
Lesson uses power point notes and related videos to help students understand ways that the government tries to control prices in an economic system, and what the expected results are.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Summary Table of Market Equilibrium
Chart that shows what happens to equilibrium price and quantity when both supply and demand remain constant or shift.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Economics Vocabulary
[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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Interpreting the Aggregate Demand/aggregate Supply Model
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Macroeconomic Perspectives on Demand and Supply
Read about the differing macroeconomic perspectives of Keynes and Say.