Sophia Learning
Sophia: Producer and Consumer Surplus
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Price Controls
Lesson uses power point notes and related videos to help students understand ways that the government tries to control prices in an economic system, and what the expected results are.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Preface
This is a preface to the TEA AP Macroeconomics Textbook online, an OpenStax resource. It provides an overview of the text, instructional materials available, the coverage and scope of the text, and the organization of the text.
Other
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: The Economics of Pro Team Sports
Great interactive baseball game that combines your knowledge of economics and pro sports trivia. After completing the nine innings, you should have a better understanding of how economics is used in everyday life.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Where Is Earth's Water Located?
Find out how much of the water on Earth is actually usable by humans, and where the rest of it is located. Learn where our water comes from and why it never runs out. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.
Other
Circle of Blue: National Security Assessment: Water Scarcity Disrupts Continents
Read this U.S. State Department report which finds a global confrontation between growing water demand and shrinking supplies, in addition to predictions for the next thirty years of water security.
Other
Pure Capitalism and the Market System: The Market and the 5 Es
Learn the characteristics of a Market Economy, the state the four fundamental questions faced by any economic system. From an online textbook by Mark Healy of Harper College.
Digital History
Digital History: The Farmer and the Depression [Pdf]
One of the first laws passed in Franklin Roosevelt's first hundred days was the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Read about how it helped farmers in crisis. and how it was the forerunner of the federal farm program in existence today. [pdf]
Curated OER
Shifting a Curve
This site shows both a supply and demand schedule, and constructs a graph using this schedule. It continues on to discuss equilibrium, and then shows a new equilibrium after there has been a change in supply.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Henry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study in Productivity (Part 3)
Henry Ford's use of mass production strategies to manufacture the Model T revolutionized industrial manufacturing. This 3-part learning unit provides students with the story of Henry Ford and the Model T from an economics perspective....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Phillips Curve: Linking Changes in Ad as Model to Phillips Curve
In this exercise, practice using the graphical model of the Phillips curve.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Price of Gasoline: What's Behind It?
In this lesson plan, students investigate the variables that contribute to the cost of gasoline. They learn that while OPEC nations do influence the price of oil and thus the price of gasoline, other factors also influence the price.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: On the Money
In this lesson plan, students explore what money is and how it differs around the world. They will compare U.S. currency with play money and with foreign currency. They will then use their knowledge to design their own money.
Other
South Western Learning: Econ News: The Market System Study Guide
South-Western College Publishing offers an outline written as a study guide for an exam, which gives basic definitions of different aspects of a market economy, graphs and examples, and sample study questions at the bottom.
The Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Board: Sustainability and Monetary Policy
"Sustainability and Monetary Policy," Remarks by Governor Laurence H. Meyer before the National Economists Club and the Society of Government Economists, Washington, D.C., January 20, 2000. With links to graphics files in PDF format.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: 2.1 Factors of Production: Principles of Economics
The three factors of production-labor, capital, and natural resources. Explain the role of technology and entrepreneurs in the utilization of the economy's factors. Labor is the human effort that can be applied to the production of goods...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: If I Ran the Zoo Economics and Literature
Welcome to the Zoo! In this two-day lesson you will use Dr. Seuss' If I Ran The Zoo book to introduce the economic concepts to your learners. You will also get the chance to use actual zoo criteria to help a zoo "choose" new animals.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Causes Inflation?
This lesson explores different types of inflation and terms associated with this economic concept. You may have heard relatives talk about the good old days when a dollar would buy something. What happened to that dollar? Why won't it...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Wages and Me
Students explore the reasons for differences in the wages for several occupations. Then students are guided through the Bureau of Labor Statistics website to find information about their potential careers and wage rates nationally and in...
Council for Economic Education
Econedlink: Markets and Prices
This video teaches the concept of Markets and Prices. A market refers to a group of buyers and sellers for a given good or service. The price is the amount of money needed to buy a particular good or service. The website contains an...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective: Key Concepts and Summary
This section summarizes the key concepts presented in Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective: Key Terms
This is a list of key terms and definitions presented in Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Deregulation and the California Utilities
"The verdict is in: California's experiment with energy deregulation is not just a mess; it's a certifiable failure, according to everyone from the state governor to the very utilities that initially backed the scheme." This is how...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Traditional Economies and the Inuit
The Inuit people of northern Canada provide an example of a traditional economy. For thousands of years, Inuit parents have taught their children the survival skills needed to survive in the Arctic Circle's severe climate. Students will...
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