Council for Economic Education
What Do People Want to Wear?
Who doesn't love fashion, especially when it can be applied to economics, supply, demand, market trends, and price equilibrium. Curious young consumers examine market scenarios to determine their effect on the demand and price for...
Federal Reserve Bank
Prices: The Marketplace’s Communication System
Explore the dual role of prices as signals and incentives, and discover how prices are determined by buyers and sellers in the United States economy.
Council for Economic Education
I'll Trade You a Bag of Chips, Two Cookies, and $60,000 for Your Tuna Fish Sandwich
If you are looking for a great lesson on supply, demand, market price, demand curves, and data analysis look no further. With glossary definitions, activities, and web lined resources this lesson is a winner.
Curated OER
Costs and Competitive Market Supply
In this economics worksheet, learners are presented with tables and diagrams for a fictitious company, then must answer questions, solve problems, plot and label graphs, and make predictions based on information provided.
Curated OER
How Markets Allocate Resources
Students study how markets allocate resources, students read background, analyze graphs, and make predictions about the impact of variables on the curves.
Curated OER
Farm Price Supports
In this economics worksheet, students study two diagrams about farm price supports and equilibrium price and use them to answer 8 multi-step short answer questions.
Econoclass
Econoclass: Frozen Price Game
This game helps students 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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 3: Demand and Supply: Critical Thinking Questions
This is a list of 16 critical thinking study questions covering Chapter 3: Demand and Supply from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.
Other
Amos Web Gloss Arama: Market Equilibrium
This economic glossary site gives a basic definition of market equilibrium.
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.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Economics in the Headlines
Learners learn how to identify headlines in the news and current events as illustrations of problems in supply and demand. Students will be linked to news sites to create their own analysis of supply and demand issues in problems facing...
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 students with the story of Henry Ford and the Model T from an economics perspective....
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Supply and Demand, Lessons From Toy Fads.
The concepts of supply and demand and related terms are taught through stories about the toy fads of Hula Hoops and Silly Bandz. In 1958, Wham-O, Inc. began marketing the Hula Hoop in the United States and sales of the Hula Hoops...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Do People Want to Wear?
To stay in business, fashion merchandisers must be able to anticipate what consumers want. By looking at different retail websites, students will look to anticipate what consumers are demanding. Students will then go through the market...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Equilibrium in the Ad as Model
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to a short-run macroeconomic equilibrium. Topics include how to model a short-run macroeconomic equilibrium graphically as well as the relationship...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Market Equilibrium, Disequilibrium, and Changes in Equilibrium
For 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: Lesson Summary: Demand and the Determinants of Demand
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms, graphs, and calculations used in analyzing the demand for the good. Review the distinction between demand and quantity demanded, the determinants of demand, and how to...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Changes in Equilibrium
Practice finding a new equilibrium price and quantity when supply changes, demand changes, or both supply and demand are changing simultaneously.`This resource is designed as a review for the AP Microeconomics Test or a college-level...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Changes in Equilibrium
Practice more challenging questions about changes in market equilibrium that happen when supply or demand (or both!) change in this exercise. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics Test or a college-level...
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: What Factors Change Demand?
Read about factors, besides price, that affect a quantity that is demanded. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level microeconomics course.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Factors Change Supply?
Read about about the many factors that affect the quantity supplied. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level microeconomics course.