Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Curves
This article explains how the concepts of supply and demand can be applied to the economy as a whole. Includes examples of an aggregate demand curve and an aggregate supply curve, and review questions at the end.
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Khan Academy: Shifts in Aggregate Demand
Aggregate demand is made up of four components: consumption spending, investment spending, government spending, and spending on exports minus imports. Increasing or decreasing any of these components create shifts the AD curve.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 4: Demand and Supply in Financial Markets
By the end of this section, you will be able to identify the demanders and suppliers in a financial market, explain how interest rates can affect supply and demand, analyze the economic effects of U.S. debt in terms of domestic financial...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Labor Economics and Public Policy
An introductory course in labor economics from MIT. Emphasizes applied microeconomics and empirical analysis. Includes suggested readings, assignments, and exams.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Economic Efficiency
Read about consumer surplus, producer surplus, and deadweight loss. Did you know that demand and supply diagrams can help us understand more than supply and demand curves and equilibrium? They can also help us understand economic...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Economic Spotter: Supply and Demand at the Gold Rush
During the Gold Rush, people paid exorbitant prices for ordinary objects. Why? Because of the laws of supply and demand, that's why! In the instructional activity, students will see how these laws fit into this great historical time.
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Khan Academy: Price Elasticity of Demand and Price Elasticity of Supply
Quantities supplied and demanded react to changes in price. Learners will learn about price elasticity of demand and price elasticity of supply in this activity. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level...
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Khan Academy: The Aggregate Demand Aggregate Supply (Ad As) Model
This study resource will help learners understand, and create, graphs that are critical skills in macroeconomics. This article reviews the aggregate demand-aggregate supply (AD-AS) model.This resource is designed as a review for the AP...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Economics in the Headlines
Students 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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Changes in Factor Demand and Supply
Practice what you have learned about how changes in the supply of labor and the demand for labor affect wages and employment. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Microeconomics Test or a college-level microeconomics course.
Other
South Western Learning: Aggregate Demand / Aggregate Supply
View the summaries of economic news stories related to Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply. Each story is accompanied by questions for students.
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...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Causes Economic Bubbles?
During the 1600's, the exotic tulip became a nationwide sensation; some single bulbs even sold for ten times the yearly salary of a skilled craftsman. Suddenly, though, the demand completely plummeted, leaving the tulip market in a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Supply and Its Determinants
In this activity summary review and remind yourself of the key terms, graphs, and calculations used in the analysis of supply. Topics include the distinction between supply and quantity supplied, the law of supply, and the determinants...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: If I Ran the Zoo Economics and Literature
Welcome to the Zoo! In this two-day lesson you will use Dr. Seuss' If I Ran The Zoo book to introduce the economic concepts to your learners. You will also get the chance to use actual zoo criteria to help a zoo "choose" new animals.
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.
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.
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.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Marketplace: Iraq's Supply and Demand
For this lesson, students listen to an audio file about how the growing demand for workers in Iraq in May 2004 affected the job market, and how the effects of low growth in the supply of workers shaped companies' hiring practices and...
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ecedweb: Explorations in Supply, Part Ii
In this economics tutorial, you as a producer have to determine how much of a given product you should make.
Ohio Test Prep
Ohio Test Prep: Module 8: Economics Concepts
Ohio Test Prep on fundamental concepts teaches about supply and demand, scarcity, and trade. Includes video tutorials, interactive practice and review, and assessment.
Other
The Aggregate Supply Curve
"The Aggregate Supply Curve," by Baumol, William J., and Alan S. Blinder. Economics: Principles and Policy, 7th ed. Orlando, FL: The Dryden Press, 1997, pp.628-642.
Econoclass
Econoclass: Resources for Economic Teachers
A site with resources for teachers teaching high school economics.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Serving Up Economics
This lesson plan describes how students can use a restaurant setting to study the basic concepts of economics, while they learn business, math, and even get to eat.