US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Consumer Price Index
This resource provides comprehensive information with topic areas covering statistics, news releases, FAQs, official government publications and more information pertaining to the consumer price index.
Other
Usa.gov: Consumer Guides and Protection
This page provides news and information to educate consumers. Covers a wide variety of topics of concern to consumers.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: How E Commerce Influences Consumer Choice
In this instructional activity students learn decision making skills that will help them become better consumers. As consumers they have a variety of alternatives from which to choose. They learn about the importance of price information...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Forecasting Economics
Can you learn economics from the weather? Students will be able to integrate science, math, and economics through this engaging lesson. The forecast predicts some percentage chance of success.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: If I Ran the Zoo Economics and Literature
Welcome to the Zoo! In this two-day instructional activity you will use Dr. Seuss' If I Ran The Zoo book to introduce the economic concepts to your students. You will also get the chance to use actual zoo criteria to help a zoo "choose"...
PBS
Pbs Lesson Plan: What the World Consumes
These visual, easy-to-grasp lessons in world economics and consumerism features lessons and related videos in which students experience first-hand the economic dilemmas faced by other countries and are asked to examine their own values...
PBS
Pbs Lesson Plan: What the World Consumes
These visual, easy-to-grasp lessons in world economics and consumerism features lessons and related videos in which students experience first-hand the economic dilemmas faced by other countries and are asked to examine their own values...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Producing and Consuming
Lesson that helps students understand the difference between producers and consumers. Students create booklets, making them producers, and then use the booklets to complete the lesson, making them consumers.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Consumer Protection Project
The media fills us in on the most recent scams around town and the nation. Taking part in this project will educated students on the scams that are out there and question the rights consumers have and the role governments should take in...
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Consumer Price Index
Extensive information about the Consumer Price Index. Constantly updated.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Overview: Consumer and Producer Surplus
This lesson introduced the basics of a branch of economics known as welfare economics, which is interested in how the allocation of resources affects well-being. The most important concepts used in welfare analysis are total surplus and...
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...
University of Nebraska Omaha
An Economics and Literature Lesson: The Goat in the Rug
This is a lesson plan geared toward first through third grades, cross-curricular, dealing with economics and literature. "Learn about economics: producers, resources (natural, human, capital), intermediate goods; and Language Arts:...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Economic Review Lesson
This activity reviews goods, services, producers, and consumers. The lesson consist of sorting, fill in the blank, writing, and racing car review quiz.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Economics Vocabulary
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains basic economics vocabulary such as producers, consumers, and different kinds of resources; limited, unlimited, natural and human. Student assessment items are included.
Social Science Education Consortium
Performance of National Economy: How Do We Measure the Economy's Health? [Pdf]
This investigation helps students clarify economic performance measures. These include: percentage changes in the Gross Domestic Product or the Consumer Price Index, how the labor force is measured, the meaning of employment and...
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: u.s. Economy at a Glance
The seven major economic indicators for the U.S. economy are listed here in an easy to read chart. The seven indicators are unemployment rate, change in hourly employment, average hourly earnings, consumer price index, producer price...
Council for Economic Education
Council for Economic Education: Learning, Earning, and Investing
This course is subtitled "Lessons for a New Generation." It includes twenty-one downloadable lessons with additional activities for each lesson. It covers a wide range of topics from basics such as "Why Save?" and "Invest In Yourself" to...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Hey, Mom! What's for Breakfast?
In this lesson young scholars working in cooperative groups will: 1.Discuss food items they consume for breakfast. 2.Investigate elements of foreign culture, particularly food. 3.Use map skills to locate selected foreign nations....
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Community Helpers at Your Service
Show elementary students the correlation between goods and services and consumers. "You will draw a picture of a community helper, and perhaps write some sentences about him or her, to show or tell how that helper provides a Service."
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Business Buddies
Help characters Lisa and Drew learn simple economic principles by choosing what goods they will need for their lemonade stand. Continue exploring economic concepts by determining the producers, services, and consumers associated with the...
China State Council Information Office and the China International Publishing Group
China.com: Statistical Data
A neat site which gives current economic data on the Chinese economy including figures on domestic trade which includes consumer goods. (Click on "Total Retail Sales" under "Domestic Trade")
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Cpi Faq: What Are Some Limitations of the Cpi?
As part of a list of frequently asked questions, this one discusses limitations of the Consumer Price Index.
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.