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Egwald Web Services: Imperfect Competition Models: Monopolistic Competition

For Students 11th - 12th
This site provides an in-depth examination of monopolistic competition, along with appropriate levels of output, price, and corresponding profits. This site is for the advanced student of economics.
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University of Illinois: Population Genetics [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Illinois at Chicago provides an in-depth article on Human Genetics, with a focus on primarily population genetics. The article is factual and informative full of charts, formulas, and extensive text. A...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Balancing Act

For Students 5th - 8th
Learn about balance by placing objects on a playground teeter totter. Take the challenge to show what you learn.
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McMaster University

Mc Master University: Vilfredo Pareto: New Theories of Economics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An article by the famous Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, who developed the concept of welfare analysis, published in 1897. The Pareto Principle was named after him.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Balancing Act

For Students 3rd - 8th
Play the Balance Challenge game to see how various objects can be used to make a plank such as a teeter totter balance and how changing the position of an object will affect the motion and tilt of the plank.
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The Environmental Literacy Council

Environmental Literacy Council: Supply and Demand: How Markets Work

For Students 9th - 10th
An article on supply and demand and how markets work. Related links for teachers.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Economics in the Headlines

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn how to identify headlines in the news and current events as illustrations of problems in supply and demand. Students will be linked to news sites to create their own analysis of supply and demand issues in problems facing...
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Mechanics Problems: Force Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Minnesota site provides a series of contextually rich, real-world problems demonstrating force and Newton's second law of motion.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Work, Energy, and Power: Potential Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
This introduction to potential energy contains illustrated examples, example problems, and interactive exercises for application of learning.
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Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Apps Zur Physik

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, in German, offers numerous apps that illustrate common physics principles. Apps are organized into categories: mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, physics of...
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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...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Henry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study in Productivity (Part 3)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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....
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Chapter 3: Demand and Supply: Key Terms

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a list of terms and definitions used in Chapter 3: Demand and Supply from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 10: Aggregate Demand/supply Model: Problems

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides three problems to solve to aid in the understanding of the content of Chapter 10: The Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply Model from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
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University of Guelph

University of Guelph: Physics Tutorials: What Is Torque?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an introductory look at torque, the measure of how much a force acting on an object causes that object to rotate. Provides a definition of torque, illustrations, and also a formula to define torque.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to ecosystems and other ecological concepts.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Agriculture and Human Population Growth Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about the evolution of agriculture and how it has impacted human population growth. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Supply and Demand, Lessons From Toy Fads.

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College: Mqed: Forces and Forms in Large Structures

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The downloadable monograph investigates forces and forms in large structures. Three teaching units are included that explore bridge engineering.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Do People Want to Wear?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To stay in business, fashion merchandisers must be able to anticipate what consumers want. By looking at different retail websites, students will look to anticipate what consumers are demanding. Students will then go through the market...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Expenditure Output, or Keynesian Cross, Model

For Students 9th - 10th
Use a diagram to analyze the relationship between aggregate expenditure and economic output in the Keynesian model.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Efficiency in Perfectly Competitive Markets

For Students 9th - 10th
Why are perfectly competitive markets efficient?
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Demand and the Determinants of Demand

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms, graphs, and calculations used in analyzing the demand for the good. Review the distinction between demand and quantity demanded, the determinants of demand, and how to...
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Biology Simulations: Population Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Population genetics is the study of genetic variation in populations. This simulation allows the user to observe the frequencies of two alleles over time.

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