Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Babysitter Shortage in Washington, d.c.
What is responsible for the shortage of babysitters in Washington, DC? Identify the parts of the article which indicate a decrease in supply and an increase in demand.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Law of Supply
If the price of something goes up, companies are willing (and able) to produce more of it.
Other
South Western Learning: Econ News: Perfect Competition
This site offers a variety of economics-related newspaper headlines in perfectly competitive markets, and each headline offers discussion questions related to that topic.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Law of Demand
If the price of something goes up, people are going to buy less of it.
University of Nebraska Omaha
University of Omaha: Lesson Plan: Why Do I Want All This Stuff? [Pdf]
This lesson plan addresses consumer demand and advertising. Indicated for grades 3 through 5.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Is Competition?
Explore the world of competition in business through this informative lesson plan.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How the Ad/as Model Incorporates Growth, Unemployment, Inflation
The aggregate demand/aggregate supply, or AD/AS, model is one of the fundamental tools in economics because it provides an overall framework for bringing economic factors together in one diagram. These factors include economic growth,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Changes in the Ad as Model in the Short Run
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to changes in the AD-AS model. Topics include AD shocks, such as changes in consumption, investment, government spending, or net exports, and supply...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Building Blocks of Keynesian Analysis
Keynesian economics focuses on explaining why recessions and depressions occur and offering a policy prescription for minimizing their effects. The Keynesian view of recession is based on two key building blocks: recessions occur when...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Equilibrium in the Ad as Model
In this lesson plan summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to a short-run macroeconomic equilibrium. Topics include how to model a short-run macroeconomic equilibrium graphically as well as the...
Other
South Western Learning: Econ News: The Market System Study Guide
South-Western College Publishing offers an outline written as a study guide for an exam, which gives basic definitions of different aspects of a market economy, graphs and examples, and sample study questions at the bottom.
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 instructional activity, students assume the role of detectives investigating why the...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: On the Money
In this lesson plan, students explore what money is and how it differs around the world. They will compare U.S. currency with play money and with foreign currency. They will then use their knowledge to design their own money.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Price of Gasoline: What's Behind It?
In this instructional activity, middle schoolers investigate the variables that contribute to the cost of gasoline. They learn that while OPEC nations do influence the price of oil and thus the price of gasoline, other factors also...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Causes Inflation?
This lesson plan explores different types of inflation and terms associated with this economic concept. You may have heard relatives talk about the good old days when a dollar would buy something. What happened to that dollar? Why won't...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: National Parks: Only You Can Prevent the Coming Crisis
What do you think of when you think of the National Parks System? Do you think of the majesty of the Grand Canyon and the redwoods of Northern California? Or does the serenity of Cape Cod and the Everglades come to mind?
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Inefficiencies Lurk in Rent Controlled Housing Markets?
Imagine that you've just graduated from college and have been offered a position with a firm in New York City. You can't wait to start living in your own apartment! Explore the housing market and how it works.
Tutor2u
Tutor2u: Macroeconomic Equilibrium
A definition of macroeconomic equilibrium and how it changes when either aggregate supply (AS) or aggregate demand (AD) shift. Many supporting graphs are provided to help explain this concept.
Council for Economic Education
Econedlink: Business Cycles
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.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Those Golden Jeans
Check out this informative economics lesson plan designed to review the three productive resources--natural resources, human resources, and capital resources--needed to produce goods and services.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Phillips Curve
This lesson explores the relationship of unemployment to inflation in the 1960s and after. Learners will discover the short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment when unemployment is less than its natural rate. Students will...
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: How Can Entrepreneurs Control Costs?
This economics lesson explores what influences producers to supply in regard to demand. It examines fixed and variable costs, how such costs can be reduced, and how they influence production. Includes printable worksheets.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Chevy Volt It's Electric!
The costs and benefits of owning an electric or hybrid car will be evaluated in this lesson. By reading and researching the history of the production of electric cars, the lesson allows students to understand how this market has developed.
Curated OER
Macroeconomic Equilibrium
A definition of macroeconomic equilibrium and how it changes when either aggregate supply (AS) or aggregate demand (AD) shift. Many supporting graphs are provided to help explain this concept.