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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Changes in the Market for Loanable Funds

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you have learned about how changes in the supply and demand for loanable funds can impact interest rates in this seven-problem exercise.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Energy Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Try and meet global energy demands by using alternative energy sources while keeping the carbon levels in the atmosphere down to acceptable levels. Simulator includes a data table available for download for student records.
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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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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Early American Trade With China: Fortune and Failures in Fur [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the things economists do is to study the relationship between the supply of products being sold on the market, the demand for products by consumers, and the price of products. They look at how price is determined by the...
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Robert Schenk, PhD

Saint Joseph's College: Shortages and Surpluses

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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South Western Learning: Econ News: Comparative Statics: Perfect Competition

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers economics-based newspaper headlines and asks follow-up questions based on supply and demand in a perfectly competitive market.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Market Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
In a market economy, the principles of supply and demand determine what is produced, how it is produced, and by whom it is produced and consumed. Learn how planned economies and mixed economies differ.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Chapter 8: The Confusion Over Inflation

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain how inflation can cause redistribution of purchasing power, Identify ways inflation can blur the perception of supply and demand, and Explain the economic benefits...
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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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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Henry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study in Productivity (Part 3)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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....
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Market Model

For Students 9th - 10th
This study resource will help students understand, and create, graphs that are critical skills in macroeconomics. This article reviews the market model. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics Test or a...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: How the Crusades Led to the Finding of the New World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The instructional activity will help students to discover the importance of the Crusades to the expansion of many European countries. Students will also be introduced to new products and find out why explorers were willing to risk all to...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lesson Overview: Consumer and Producer Surplus

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Phillips Curve: Linking Changes in Ad as Model to Phillips Curve

For Students 9th - 10th
In this exercise, practice using the graphical model of the Phillips curve.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Price of Gasoline: What's Behind It?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: On the Money

For Teachers K - 1st
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.
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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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The Federal Reserve System

Federal Reserve Board: Sustainability and Monetary Policy

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

Econ Ed Link: If I Ran the Zoo Economics and Literature

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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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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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Wages and Me

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

Econedlink: Markets and Prices

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...

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