By using notes and supporting videos, tutorial helps students to acquire an understanding of producer and consumer surplus and to be able to calculate it.

This concise site that provides an explanation of what producers are along with a short quiz to test your knowledge of producers and consumers.

Learn how scientists classify different types of organisms in an ecosystem or in a food chain by their role and function as either a producer, a consumer, or a decomposer. Then play a game that tests your understanding of these important...

This lesson focuses on the organization of an ecosystem. The feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem can be seen in food chains. Sampling allows us to measure the abundance and distribution of these species. It provides...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the different roles in an ecosystem.

This is a lesson plan geared toward first through third grades, cross-curricular, dealing with economics and literature. "Learn about economics: producers, resources (natural, human, capital), intermediate goods; and Language Arts:...

Students learn about Abiotic and Biotic Factors and how they affect the ecosystem in which an animal might live in.

An interactive activity where students study how two species of producers are affected by a consumer. By completing several virtual experiments and collecting data, students will be able to summarize what plants can do to defend...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy flows through an ecosystem.

Is the food chain shown above accurate? Does the first link depict a producer, the second link a herbivore, and the third link an omnivore / carnivore? Students must correctly determine whether a species is a producer or consumer, and...

The seven major economic indicators for the U.S. economy are listed here in an easy to read chart. The seven indicators are unemployment rate, change in hourly employment, average hourly earnings, consumer price index, producer price...

An introductory course in the fundamentals of microeconomics. Includes a list of suggested readings, lecture notes, assignments, and exams.

Slideshow that looks at energy flow in an ecosystem. Explains what an ecosystem is, how energy flows through it, the producers and consumers of energy, and food chains. Links to a video about plastic debris in the ocean.

Explains the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Covers the meanings of key vocabulary, e.g., types of producers and consumers, trophic levels, food webs, and the energy pyramid.

This article provides an overview of Taxation and Deadweight Loss. When a tax is imposed on a market it will reduce the quantity that will be sold in the market. Whenever the quantity sold in the market is not the equilibrium quantity,...

Notes and a video clip provide students with an introduction to the idea of marginal analysis and of how consumers and producers make decisions.

A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of ecosystems, covering biotic and abiotic factors, and the roles organisms play in an ecosystem.

An article on supply and demand and how markets work. Related links for teachers.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining important vocabulary involving the food chain. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares nonfiction information about ecological pyramids. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...

This lesson focuses on how plants and animals live together in a community or ecosystem by adapting, interdependence, and competition.

This concise site that provides an explanation of what producers are along with a short quiz to test your knowledge of producers and consumers.

How would you define an ecosystem? Check out this educational resource to learn more about the living and nonliving parts of different ecosystems.

A lesson outlining activities for a science unit where students can learn about the relationships and the flow of energy within an ecosystem. These include predator and prey, hosts and parasites, and consumers, producers, and decomposers.