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Khan Academy: How the United States and Other Countries Experience Inflation
How does inflation affect a country's well-being? What are some examples of high and low inflation?.
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Khan Academy: How Well Gdp Measures the Well Being of Society
Does GDP capture everything we care about in an economy?.
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Khan Academy: Measuring the Size of the Economy: Gross Domestic Product
Read about Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and how we measure it.
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University of Massachusetts: Closing Entries
This site presents quiz questions and problems, complete with solutions, that illustrate the closing entries for a corporation.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: It Ain't Where You Start, It's What You Got, and Where You End
This year's federal elections will involve electing a president, all members of the House of Representatives, and one-third of the Senate. Barring some international crisis, economic issues appear likely to dominate the debates. In past...
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences: Pot Biz
Learn how to be a successful innovator as you try to turn an idea for a decomposing plant pot into a profitable business. It won't be easy; being an innovator never is. In this interactive game, the decisions you make could lead to fame...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Economic Sectors and International Development
Using poverty rate as a measure of development, students select countries five at a time to compare how resources are allocated to three economic sectors (agriculture, industrial, service). After making comparisons, students will...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Expenditure and Tax Multipliers
Practice what you've learned about calculating, applying, and interpreting the expenditure multiplier and tax multiplier in this four-question exercise.
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Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Economic Growth
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and concepts related to economic growth, including expansion of capital, technological change, and human capital. This resource is designed as a review for the AP...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Fiscal Policy
This video teaches the concept of Fiscal Policy. Fiscal policy refers to how government taxing and spending policy can be used to influence the macroeconomy. The website contains an interactive quiz and links for related lesson plans.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Tracking Inflation
When you hear someone talk about the economy, it's pretty likely they'll say something about inflation. What is inflation anyway?.
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Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Automatic Stabilizers
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to automatic stabilizers, including the different kinds of automatic stabilizers and why fiscal policy is subject to lags. This resource is designed as...
Council for Economic Education
Econedlink: Economic Growth Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Economic Growth. Economic growth refers to the ability of the economy to increase its total real output or real GDP, or its real output per person. The website contains an interactive quiz and links for...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Focus on Economic Data
This lesson focuses on the second estimate of U.S. real gross domestic product for the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2012, as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on February 28, 2013. The current data and historical GDP data...
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City of Vancouver: Engineering Services: Traffic and Transportation Plan
The City of Vancouver's transportation plans can be found here. These involve cycling, public transit, pedestrian traffic, traffic management, etc.
Curated OER
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A report from the National Bureau of Economic Research on recent trends in business cycles and characteristics which tend to show signs of future economic development. a question and answer session is also provided at the end of the report.
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A report from the National Bureau of Economic Research on recent trends in business cycles and characteristics which tend to show signs of future economic development. a question and answer session is also provided at the end of the report.
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A report from the National Bureau of Economic Research on recent trends in business cycles and characteristics which tend to show signs of future economic development. a question and answer session is also provided at the end of the report.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 3: Money in Our Community
Lesson focuses on how and why money circulated within our community. Being able to discern the difference between things we need and things we want is one of the foundational concepts for using money wisely. Goods and services are things...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Aggregate Supply and Demand
This site is a short lesson on business cycles, aggregate demand, and aggregate supply. It has some good explanations of the terms.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: English (Esl) Label Me! Printouts
Over 100 handouts with answer sheets you can print and use to help build English vocabulary. Numerous topics and themes are covered: everyday words, math terms, seasonal and holiday words, geographical terms, animals, opposites, parts of...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
The picture book One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, written by Kate Smith Milway, takes place in Africa. Here in a Ghanan village, young Kojo cannot afford to go to school after the death of his father. His resourceful...
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Khan Academy: Adjusting Nominal Values to Real Values
When you examine economic statistics, it's crucial to distinguish between nominal and real measurements so you know whether or not inflation has distorted a given statistic. Learn how to adjust GDP numbers for inflation in this article....