Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prices and Equilibrium
Through a series of resources, students use the concept of demand and supply to explain how free market prices and quantities are established, define equilibrium, and understand the idea of shortage and surplus.
Texas A&M University
Texas A&m University: Market Characteristics
This site sets up a list of market characteristics. Sample price and volume data included.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Economics: Microeconomics: Demand, Supply and Market Forces
Economics learning module with interactive assignments, projects and assessment discusses the interplay of demand, supply and market forces.
The Environmental Literacy Council
Environmental Literacy Council: Supply and Demand: How Markets Work
An article on supply and demand and how markets work. Related links for teachers.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ch. 4:the Market System as an Efficient Mechanism for Information
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Changes in Equilibrium Price and Quantity: The Four Step Process
By the end of this section, you will be able to identify equilibrium price and quantity through the four-step process; graph equilibrium price and quantity; contrast shifts of demand and supply and movements along a demand or supply...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium in Markets for Goods and Services
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain demand, quantity demanded, and the law of demand; identify a demand curve and a supply curve; explain supply, quantity supply, and the law of supply; and explain equilibrium,...
Council for Economic Education
Econedlink: Markets and Prices
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...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Prices Are Changing
This lesson will help students to understand how markets are created by the interaction of buyers and sellers, what demand and supply are, what equilibrium price is, and how demand and supply interact with price changes.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: What Is Driving Oil Prices?
As the world's demand for oil rapidly increases, so do the prices for it. Learn the factors causing high oil prices and who are the world's largest consumers of petroleum. Includes discussion questions. (Published Jan. 2005)
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Demand, Supply, and Markets
This site discusses in great detail the differences between demand, supply, and markets. Useful economic terminology is identified in bold.
Other
Business plans.org: Marketing Plan
This article discusses the information necessary to write a marketing plan. The concepts discussed include: generic strategies and strategies for pricing, distribution, promotion, advertising, and market segmentation.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Market Equilibrium
Practice what you've learned about finding equilibrium price and quantity both intuitively and graphically in this exercise.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Market Equilibrium, Disequilibrium, and Changes in Equilibrium
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs used in the analysis of markets. Topics include how to use a market model to predict how price and quantity change in a market when demand changes, supply...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Market Equilibrium and Disequilibrium
Practice what you have learned about how a market generates an equilibrium price and quantity, and the cause of surpluses and shortages in this exercise.
Other
Amos Web Gloss Arama: Market Equilibrium
This economic glossary site gives a basic definition of market equilibrium.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Summary Table of Market Equilibrium
Chart that shows what happens to equilibrium price and quantity when both supply and demand remain constant or shift.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Long Bull Market
The Long Bull Market of the 1920s saw share prices on the stock market soar and its collapse contributed to the Great Depression.
Biz Move
Biz Move: How to Set Prices in a Service Business
This article discusses how to set prices when your product is a service rather than a manufactured good. It describes some of the pricing problems related to the fact that you are selling an intangible good.
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ecedweb: Explorations in Economic Supply, Part I
Examines how supply relates to economic decision making. Using the example of purchasing blue jeans, students take the role of producer to determine how many blue jeans they would supply to the market. Includes links and discussion...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Changes in Equilibrium Price and Quantity: The Four Step Process
Analyze some step-by-step examples of shifting supply and demand curves. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level microeconomics course.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Market Equilibrium
The actual price you see in the world is a balancing act between supply and demand.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Henry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study in Productivity (Part 3)
Henry Ford's use of mass production strategies to manufacture the Model T revolutionized industrial manufacturing. This 3-part learning unit provides young scholars with the story of Henry Ford and the Model T from an economics...
Econoclass
Econoclass: Frozen Price Game
This game helps learners to understand the concepts of changing supply, changing demand, and equilibrium price, as the price of bags of ice changes after a hurricane has swept through a community.