Resources for Production Teacher Resources

This lesson takes students through the process of buying a car. A great real-life application that helps introduce students to all of the nuances associated with purchasing a car, such as interest rates, loan applications, and amortization.

This section focuses on the key concepts and a summary of macroeconomics covered in Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity from the TEA AP Macroeconomics.

Eighth graders will explore the impact that sugar production and trade had on the economic and social course of world history, including in Louisiana.

Provides a definition for land as seen by an economist.

Excellent resource maps the growth of canals and economic development in the nineteenth-century by presenting data about the commodities and products that moved across the canals and shows the spaces that canals connected.

On January 26, 2010, the film Avatar officially topped Titanic as the top-grossing film of all-time at the box office. However, the following day, Forbes.com published an article entitled Is Avatar Really King of the Box Office? The...

In this lesson, you will be taking on the role of an investigative reporter to solve the Amazing Farmer Mystery. The goal will be to use seven clues provided throughout the lesson in order to figure out how so few farmers can produce...

If you asked students what comes to mind first when they think of Labor Day, what do you think they would say? The last days of summer? A family picnic? Shopping the Labor Day sales? The purpose of this instructional activity is to...

This page provides news and information to educate consumers. Covers a wide variety of topics of concern to consumers.

Every economic system tries to anticipate and then meet human needs through the production and distribution of goods and services. The economic system is the mechanism that brings together natural resources, the labor supply, technology,...

Click and drag each picture to put the steps of producing and consuming a book in the correct order.

Mankind has used the wind as an energy source for thousands of years. Discover other ways the wind is used to make energy.

One major advantage with the use of renewable energy is that as it is renewable it is therefore sustainable and so will never run out. Renewable energy facilities generally require less maintenance than traditional generators. Their fuel...

The concept of Scarcity is the fundamental economic problem of having humans who have unlimited wants and needs in a world of limited resources. It states hat society has insufficient productive resources to fulfill all human wants and...

"Northeast China - the provinces of Heilungkiang, Kirin, and Liaoning - is the most important region of the country and a nationally significant and still-developing center of agricultural production. Most of the Northeast remained...

" North China includes the densely populated and intensively cultivated North China Plain, the loess-covered uplands of Shansi, northern Shensi, and eastern Kansu, and the sparsely populated, semiarid steppes of Inner Mongolia....