This site provides an activity and discussion that could be used when studying the factors of production.

In this lesson, 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.

This site uses an interactive Circular Flow Model to show the flow of payments for the factors of production (rent, wages, and interest) along with payments for finished goods and services. Questions are provided which ask the user if a...

Learn about the status of farming as a career, investigate the management of a family farm, and examine one recent farm crisis in this lesson.

Practice what you have learned about the production function in this four-question exercise.

In this exercise, practice what you have learned about learning objective MOD-1.A from the AP Macroeconomics course and exam description. Topics include the definitions of economics, microeconomics, and macroeconomics, positive and...

This lesson stimulates learners' thinking with stories about rigorous athlete training illustrating the importance of training and practice. After students read the story, they will experiment to see how instruction and practice improves...

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....

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....

Over the last century, professional baseball has grown to become one of the most popular forms of American entertainment. Indeed, the sport's nickname - "America's Pastime" - has become embedded in the nation's lexicon. More than 60...

This site offers a good description and examples of the factors of production.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video shows how to fill in a table of factors and products to show the relationship between factors and products of two-digit and one-digit numbers. The video is...

This site explains the concept of labor within the free enterprise system. It is a good introduction to connecting labor and productivity. The list of hyperlinks is also a good continuation of related topics.

Third graders develop their understanding of multiplication by grouping objects into equal groups to model the factors and products.

This Shodor site gives a brief explanation of factorization, and it allows you "to find all of the factorizations of a given number and then draw the product as the area of a rectangle on a grid."

This Auburn University site has a definition for capital as an economist would use the term.

Throughout history, people, products, and ideas have moved from one place to another. Read about which factors caused these movements within the Eastern Hemisphere. Study cards are included to help review the concepts covered.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find the greatest common factor of a given numbers using factor trees.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find the greatest common factor of a given number using lists.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers factoring perfect square trinomials and the difference of squares.

Determine the factors pairs of a given product.

This is an overview of the Anasazi agricultural developments -- despite unfavorable environmental conditions -- which allowed for the formation of settlements and food sharing.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to use the patterns of special products in order to factor quadratic expressions.

Students will learn how to determine the product by decomposing the factors.