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.

In this instructional task, 2nd graders develop and express claims through discussions and writing in which they explain how a person can be both a producer and consumer.

Lesson that helps students understand the difference between producers and consumers. Students create booklets, making them producers, and then use the booklets to complete the lesson, making them consumers.

Read and study the sources about the roles that different people have in the Louisiana economy. As you read the three sources, think about what would happen if some people gave up those roles.

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

A unit that teaches the difference between goods and services, the difference between producers and consumers, the difference between human, natural, and capital resources, and the difference between bartering/trading and buying/selling....

This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."

This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."

This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand what trophic levels are and identify producers and consumers in a food web.

This lesson, supported by the provided power point lecture (LESSON 1 and 2 Ecology Lecture Supplement ), introduces students to the concepts of food chains and food webs. Through its use, students learn the difference between producers...

This lesson introduced the basics of a branch of economics known as welfare economics, which is interested in how the allocation of resources affects well-being. The most important concepts used in welfare analysis are total surplus and...

This site is all about integrated pest management. Here you can learn about beneficial producers and consumers.

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...

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

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.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Producers make their own food through photosynthesis. But many organisms are not producers and cannot make their own food, but must get their energy from other...

Help characters Lisa and Drew learn simple economic principles by choosing what goods they will need for their lemonade stand. Continue exploring economic concepts by determining the producers, services, and consumers associated with the...

This activity reviews goods, services, producers, and consumers. The lesson consist of sorting, fill in the blank, writing, and racing car review quiz.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A close look at how animals and the environment interact with one another and specifically how the feeding relationships in a food web.

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

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...

Being field scientists, students will explore a wooded area in their community and journal about their observations. Students will collect information about producers, consumers, and decomposers in the ecosystem. They will then construct...