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Prices: The Marketplace’s Communication System
Explore the dual role of prices as signals and incentives, and discover how prices are determined by buyers and sellers in the United States economy.
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What Do Financial Market Indicators Tell Us?
Explain the four categories of financial indicators (commodity prices, stock indexes, interest rates, and yield spreads), and help your class members understand how changes in this data can affect decisions regarding consumer spending,...
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Marketing A Breakfast Cereal
Kids put their creativity to use by engaging in a marketing and business project. They employ sound marketing strategies to create, produce, and sell a new breakfast cereal. A fun project that can be modified to fit learners of any age.
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Pricing Strategies
Students examine the principles companies use to price their problems. They discover the difference between cost based and market based pricing. They identify other factors that go into pricing decisions.
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Creating & Marketing a Commercial
Young scholars explain the four P's of Marketing (product, pricing, promotion, and place) and how they are used in business and in society. They produce the remake of an old audio and visual commercial activity as a marketing activity.
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Market Structure
Learners examine the different types of market structures. They analyze these structures using diagrammatic representations.
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Market Game in Oil
Learners work together to participate in a market game in oil. Using their prior knowledge, they review how the interaction of buyers and sellers sets the price in markets. They identify the situations in which cause shortages and...
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Why Do Gasoline Prices React to Things That Have Not Happened?
Students investigate how the price of gas is determined. In this economics lesson, students analyze supply and demand and seasonal demand, create tables and graphs and reflect on consumer expectations.
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Market Structures and Competition
Young scholars review concepts related to market structures and competition. Using supply and demand, they identify what factors cause them to shift and analyze business downward facing demand curves. They compare and contrast the...
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Labor Markets
Students examine labor markets by participating in an employer/employee simulation and in group discussions. They discuss mandated employee benefits and predict the effect they have on various parties.
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Taking Stock
Students match scenarios with the terminology related to stock market fluctuations. They read an article, answer discussion questions, create a terminology poster, and write an essay.
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Price Controls: Prescribed Drugs in North America
Young scholars 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...
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How Has the Constitution Shaped the Economic System in the United States?
Students examine the characteristics of market economies. In this United States economics lesson, students analyze the Constitution to understand how it contributes to the market economy established in the United States. Students...
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Competition and Market Structure
Students participate in a simulation in which some are buyers and some are sellers in a trading activity. They set their own prices and record transactions. Then they calculate who made the biggest profit. They discuss the results.
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Hitting the Roof
Students examine the state of the British housing market. For this current events lesson, students visit selected websites to study Gordon Brown's plan for eco-towns, how to borrow money to buy homes, and what the home prices are in...
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What Really Caused the Great Depression?
Falling wages. Rising unemployment. Falling prices. Sound familiar? Young economists look at the role the US banking system had in causing the Great Depression.
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Deflation: Who Let the Air Out?
Why do decreasing prices (deflation) restrain economic growth, and why is this a real concern? Here you'll find reading materials and a related worksheet that gets right to the heart of this question, using recent events and...
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Mucket Mania: The Mussel Industry in Arkansas
Middle and high schoolers read and discuss articles about the mussel industry in Arkansas. They pay close attention to the history of pearling and button making industries on the Black and White Rivers of Arkansas. This impressive,...
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Running a School Bakery
Students explore marketing concepts while producing food items to sell.
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The Big Apple
Students study the buying and selling market and how prices are determined for an agricultural product. In this competitive market instructional activity, students study how prices are determined in a market by studying the forces of...
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Sell Phones
Students work in groups as competing teams responsible for preparing and presenting a comprehensive marketing plan to the board of a "new" cell phone company.
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Cost and Revenues
Students develop the key concepts of total, variable, fixed, average and marginal costs. The theory of using different business scenarios is applied to different situations for an extension to real life application.
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Economics: Elasticity of Prices
Students discover the elasticity concepts of price, income, cross elasticity, and elasticity of supply. They apply this knowledge to an activity about Britain's Birmingham Northern Relief Road.
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Track the Path of Coffee From Farm to Store Shelf
Students investigate the cultivation and marketing of coffee. In this global studies instructional activity, students consider the connections of the 21st century world as they explore how coffee makes it from farms to their homes....