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South Western Learning: Econ News: The Market System Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: National Parks: Only You Can Prevent the Coming Crisis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What do you think of when you think of the National Parks System? Do you think of the majesty of the Grand Canyon and the redwoods of Northern California? Or does the serenity of Cape Cod and the Everglades come to mind?
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Inefficiencies Lurk in Rent Controlled Housing Markets?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Imagine that you've just graduated from college and have been offered a position with a firm in New York City. You can't wait to start living in your own apartment! Explore the housing market and how it works.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Causes Inflation?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: 2.1 Factors of Production: Principles of Economics

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Price Floor

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains, using graphs, how a price floor work, and how an effective price floor will create a surplus in a market.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Economics Vocabulary

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains basic economics vocabulary such as producers, consumers, and different kinds of resources; limited, unlimited, natural and human. Student assessment items are included.
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Curated OER

Shifting a Curve

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Tutor2u

Tutor2u: Macroeconomic Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
A definition of macroeconomic equilibrium and how it changes when either aggregate supply (AS) or aggregate demand (AD) shift. Many supporting graphs are provided to help explain this concept.
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Elasticity [Ppt]

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow delves into the concept of elasticity. It discusses why elasticity is important, looks at the different kinds of elasticity, and has many supporting graphs and charts to use as examples.
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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.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Is Competition?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore the world of competition in business through this informative lesson plan.
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Council for Economic Education

Econedlink: Business Cycles

For Students 9th - 10th
This video teaches the concept of Business Cycles. The pattern in which economies have periods of recession and then also periods of economic expansion or recovery is known as the business cycle.
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Circle of Blue: National Security Assessment: Water Scarcity Disrupts Continents

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Phillips Curve

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity explores the relationship of unemployment to inflation in the 1960s and after. Students will discover the short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment when unemployment is less than its natural rate....
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Those Golden Jeans

For Students 3rd - 8th
Check out this informative economics lesson plan designed to review the three productive resources--natural resources, human resources, and capital resources--needed to produce goods and services.
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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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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Chevy Volt It's Electric!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The costs and benefits of owning an electric or hybrid car will be evaluated in this lesson. By reading and researching the history of the production of electric cars, the lesson allows students to understand how this market has developed.
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Curated OER

Official Paul Krugman Web Page: The Energy Crisis Revisited

For Students 9th - 10th
Analysis of the energy crisis of the 70s. An oil chart to illustrate the supply and demand curve.
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Curated OER

Official Paul Krugman Web Page: The Energy Crisis Revisited

For Students 9th - 10th
Analysis of the energy crisis of the 70s. An oil chart to illustrate the supply and demand curve.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: 15: Introduction to Exchange Rates & International Capital Flows

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an introduction to the Exchange Rates & International Capital Flows chapter. You will learn about the following in this chapter: How the foreign exchange market works, Demand and supply shifts in foreign exchange markets,...

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