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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Supply and Demand

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a full and in-depth description of the theories of supply and demand.
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Other

Net Mba Business Knowledge Center: Supply and Demand

For Students 9th - 10th
This website offers a very simple yet helpful description and example of the interaction of supply and demand, and what will happen to price and quantity when one or both of your supply and demand curves shift. This would be a good place...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: What Is Driving Oil Prices?

For Students 9th - 10th
As the world's demand for oil rapidly increases, so do the prices for it. Learn the factors causing high oil prices and who are the world's largest consumers of petroleum. Includes discussion questions. (Published Jan. 2005)
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University of Nebraska Omaha

Ec Ed Web: How Can Entrepreneurs Control Costs?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 3: Demand and Supply: Key Concepts and Summary

For Students 11th - 12th
This section summarizes the key concepts of Chapter 3: Demand and Supply from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Velocity of Circulation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson simulates a closed market in which goods are bought/sold for money. After the five minute activity, students calculate the amount of money dispersion, and based off of this...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Economic Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
Helps students discover the three basic economic questions and how each system answers these questions, identify several key advantages and disadvantages for each economic system, recognize some economic indicators that can measure...
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Expansion: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of eight primary resources--historical documents, literary texts, visual images, maps--illuminated and contextualized by notes, thematic questions, and text-specific discussion questions for classroom instruction and teacher...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Power of Developers

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video features a peasant family in China that is caught in a land rights dispute with no apparent solution in sight.
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Ayn Rand's Anthem

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning unit and essay writing contest based on Ayn Rand's dystopian novella, Anthem. Includes student reading guides, essay guidelines and contest link.
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Econoclass

Econoclass: Supply and Demand Drill

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This classroom activity provides students with many examples of changes in supply or demand.
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Other

Biz Kids: Bring Home the Bacon

For Students 9th - 10th
Bring Home the Bacon is an exciting interactive way to learn the concept of supply and demand. More demand, more customers, but don't get too carried away because upgrading your investments might be worth the wait!
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Higher Ed: The Free Enterprise System

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of the Free Enterprise system in the United States discusses how production, prices, and goods and services are determined.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using Clickers to Generate Supply and Demand Curves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson has students using clickers to generate data for demand and supply curves. It asks students to give numerical values for their maximum willingness to pay for something and their minimum willingness to accept for something....
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Causes Inflation?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson 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 it...
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Other

American Coal Foundation: Lesson Plan: Coal Supply and Demand

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this one period lesson, students will learn the relationship between supply and demand for natural resources such as coal, and explore how these conditions affect the cost of energy.
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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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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Chapter 3: Demand and Supply: Problems

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides five problems to solve covering the content of Chapter 3: Demand and Supply from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.
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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.
Activity
University of Nebraska Omaha

Ec Ed Web: Explorations in Economic Demand

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an analysis of the theory of demand, and determinants that can cause a shift or change in demand.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Why Do We Need Money? Think About Ebay!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The students investigate money--its purpose and functions. They complete an exercise, using the online auction site eBay, to learn why money is critical to an economy.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Writing Roulette: Walmart Sells Everything!!!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
As a part of the study of Economics, the students will cooperatively write an essay using terms associated with the basics of economics. In cooperative learning groups of four students will use a word list and prior knowledge to...
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Recession

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about recessions, periods of economic slowdown often marked by high rates of unemployment, plunging stock prices, lower corporate profitability, and consumer anxiety.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 9: The National Saving and Investment Identity

For Students 9th - 10th
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...

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