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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 4:the Market System as an Efficient Mechanism for Information

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to apply demand and supply models to analyze prices and quantities and explain the effects of price controls on the equilibrium of prices and quantities.
eBook
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: How Government Borrowing Affects Investment & the Trade Balance

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain the national saving and investment identity in terms of demand and supply and Evaluate the role of budget surpluses and trade surpluses in national saving and...
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Labor Economics and Public Policy

For Students 11th - 12th
An introductory course in labor economics from MIT. Emphasizes applied microeconomics and empirical analysis. Includes suggested readings, assignments, and exams.
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Other

Curriki: "Beautiful Art" Cultural Diffusion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is designed to give students a conceptual understanding of cultural diffusion and the notion that ideas change people and people change ideas. It involves a teacher demonstration, student role-play, and an activity that...
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Curated OER

A Shortage

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides easy to understand examples of shortages and surpluses, and what each looks like on a supply and demand graph.
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Curated OER

A Surplus

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides easy to understand examples of shortages and surpluses, and what each looks like on a supply and demand graph.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Market Equilibrium, Disequilibrium, and Changes in Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs used in the analysis of markets. Topics include how to use a market model to predict how price and quantity change in a market when demand changes, supply...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: National Grid Fully Charged

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Grid is a high-voltage electric power transmission network, connecting power stations and 340+ substations ensuring supply and demand is in the balance. Nigel Williams speaks to Robert Llewellyn about how the National Grid...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Powering the Future

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity tests problem-solving skills while introducing a card exercise which allows students to solve real problems and make decisions about how best to provide electrical power to their country. Students must make choices between...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Exchange Rates and Exchange: How Money Affects Trade

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn how currency values are set by supply and demand, and how changes in the value of currency affect international trade. Students then find the value of the Brazilian Real in 2000 and 2002, determine whether the currency has...
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Investopedia

Investopedia: 4 Factors That Shape Market Trends

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the four factors that shape market trends: government, international transactions, speculation and expectation and supply and demand.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Changes in Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice more challenging questions about changes in market equilibrium that happen when supply or demand (or both!) change in this exercise. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics Test or a college-level...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective: Problems

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides 5 problems to solve pertaining to the information presented in Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective.
eBook
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 12: Introduction to the Neoclassical Perspective

For Students 9th - 10th
In this chapter, you will learn about the following: The building blocks of neoclassical analysis, The policy implications of the neoclassical perspective, and Balancing Keynesian and Neoclassical models.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 11: The Keynesian Perspective: Review Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides 23 review study questions to aid understanding of the content in Chapter 11: The Keynesian Perspective from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective: Self Check Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This section provides a list of self-check study question to aid in understanding the content of Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective.
eBook
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 12: Balancing Keynesian and Neoclassical Models

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Evaluate how neoclassical economists and Keynesian economists react to recessions and Analyze the interrelationship between the neoclassical and Keynesian economic models.
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Auburn University

Auburn University: Glossary of Political Economy Terms: Market Economy Defined

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a fairly complete explanation of market economy prepared by Dr. Paul Johnson of Auburn University. It also includes hyperlinks to several related topics.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Phillips Curve

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson explores the relationship of unemployment to inflation in the 1960s and after. Young scholars will discover the short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment when unemployment is less than its natural rate. Students...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Introduction to Factor Markets

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you have learned about the supply of labor, the demand for labor, and the marginal revenue product of labor in this exercise.
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Other

Financial Pipeline: Forecasting Interest Rates

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the extent to which monetary policy, loose or tight, influences interest rates. Also discusses inflation and demand for capital as important for interest rates.
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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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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Capitalism

For Students 9th - 10th
Gives an overview of the hallmarks of capitalism. Includes a description along with history, characteristics, criticisms, and more.
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Econoclass

Econoclass: The Law of Unintended Consequences

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this series of short "headlines", each has a direct goal, but each also has an unintended externality or spillover.

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