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The Economics of Valentine's Day

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop an understanding of the determinants of supply and demand. They use this understanding to explain changes in how supply and demand affect the price and the quantity exchanged of roses.
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eBook
Rice University

Principles of Macroeconomics for AP® Courses 2e

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
The informational textbook covers topics like supply, demand, price ceilings, and markets for goods and services. Scholars also review vocabulary and test their knowledge of the material with the assessments provided within the resource. 
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A LOT OF THIS FOR A LITTLE OF THAT

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students describe the import and export of agricultural products and gain a comprehension of the concept of supply and demand. They discuss exports and imports. Students have small world maps on each desk, they identify the countries...
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Talking Bulls and Bears

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students compare and contrast bull and bear markets. In this stock market lesson, students visit the noted Web sites to study supply and demand, the stock exchange, and financial scandals.
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Market Changes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the role of government in the economy market. For this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are trying to...
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The Price is Right?

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders read "A Primer on Gasoline Prices" and complete a worksheet on the price of gas. They discuss supply and demand and what a consumer can do about prices at the pump.
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Market Structure and Competition

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Learners explore the role of government in the economy market. For this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are trying to...
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Worksheet
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Market Equilibrium Writing Exercise

For Students 11th - 12th
In this economics worksheet, students read 6 scenarios about market equilibrium and then select one of them to write about. Students draw demand and supply curves to accompany their written answers.
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Oil Market Basics

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the global oil market through a web-quest. In this oil market lesson, students conduct a web-quest to gather information related to the global oil market then design and make a mural.
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Teaching Marketing Through Auctioning

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students explore the marketing concepts of product, price, promotion and place through the auction activity.
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Chapter 23: Pure Competition

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Taking your young economists through the characteristics of four market models (Pure Competition, Pure Monopoly, Oligopoly, and Monopolistic Competition), this presentation uses both charts and graphs to illustrate the necessary...
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Worksheet
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Short-Run and Long-Run Competitive Equilibrium

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Calculate profit and loss, plot on diagrams, and solve problems for given scenarios and variables in this 3-page instructional activity. Students will obtain excellent practice after completing these pages. 
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Pizza and the Economy

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners become aware of the history behind pizza and how it was adapted to the economic and geographic conditions of the United States. They have a basic understanding of the concepts of supply and demand.
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Fitness Day

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars develop skills and a comfort level in interpreting economic concepts through graphic analysis.
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Worksheet
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Market Failure: Externalities and their Remedies

For Students 11th - 12th
In this macroeconomics activity, students respond to 41 short answer and fill in the blank questions regarding economic concepts related to market failure.
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The Labour Market: Flexibility

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars divide into groups to research and produce a short summary outlining the operation of the labour market in the UK. They use supply and demand diagrams to illustrate their discussion.
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PPT
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Chapter 28: Wage Determination

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Answer questions on minimum wage and labor models with this economics presentation. Thorough and precise, these slides make a great accompaniment to a lecture on labor and wages. A list of key terms allows viewers to readdress and...
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Studies And Taxes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use knowledge of supply and demand models and demonstrate how markets can be affected by intervention from governments or other agencies in an attempt to correct a perceived market failure
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The Big Apple

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students study the buying and selling market and how prices are determined for an agricultural product. In this competitive market lesson, students study how prices are determined in a market by studying the forces of supply and demand....
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The Market System and Consumerism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine their own consumption habits. Using various advertisements, they discuss their role in showing consumers what they must have in their lives. As a class, they encourage each other to change their habits and discuss how...
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Council for Economic Education

Tapped Dry: How Do You Solve a Water Shortage?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers, after evaluating different allocation methods for water, determine the costs and benefits of each method.
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Price Controls: Prescribed Drugs in North America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the nature of price controls, the impact of maximum prices below the equilibrium level on a market, the effect it can have on other markets, the requirements for effective price discrimination in a market, and the price...
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Trading in a Marketplace

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers complete a trade simulation in a marketplace. In the simulation, they role play the role of producer and consumer of goods and apply the concepts of supply and demand. In groups, they discover how an environment can affect...
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Making Sense of the World Economy

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners apply the economic principles of supply and demand, market economy, competition, unemployment rate, exports and imports and currency exchange rate to China's present economic success and Russia's economic strife.