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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: 2.1 Factors of Production: Principles of Economics

For Students 9th - 10th
The three factors of production-labor, capital, and natural resources. Explain the role of technology and entrepreneurs in the utilization of the economy's factors. Labor is the human effort that can be applied to the production of goods...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Keynes' Law and Say's Law in the Ad/as Model

For Students 9th - 10th
Compare Keynes's and Say's law in the context of aggregate supply and demand.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Market Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
The actual price you see in the world is a balancing act between supply and demand.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Changes in the Ad as Model in the Short Run

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to changes in the AD-AS model. Topics include AD shocks, such as changes in consumption, investment, government spending, or net exports, and supply...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Determinants of Price Elasticity and the Total Revenue Rule

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you've learned about the relationship between price elasticity of demand and total revenue in this exercise. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Microeconomics Test or a college-level microeconomics course.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Building Blocks of Keynesian Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Keynesian economics focuses on explaining why recessions and depressions occur and offering a policy prescription for minimizing their effects. The Keynesian view of recession is based on two key building blocks: recessions occur when...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Elasticity in the Long Run and Short Run

For Students 9th - 10th
The elasticity of supply or demand can vary based on the length of time you care about. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level microeconomics course.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Law of Supply

For Students 9th - 10th
If the price of something goes up, companies are willing (and able) to produce more of it.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Summary Table of Market Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
Chart that shows what happens to equilibrium price and quantity when both supply and demand remain constant or shift.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Price Ceilings and Price Floors

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses how quantity demanded react to artificial constraints on price.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Those Golden Jeans

For Students 3rd - 8th
Check out this informative economics lesson plan designed to review the three productive resources--natural resources, human resources, and capital resources--needed to produce goods and services.
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Other

South Western Learning: Oligopoly/monopolistic Competition: Kinked Demand Curve

For Students 9th - 10th
This South-Western College Publishing website describes a situation in which oligopolistic firms vie for competition among consumers.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Marketplace: Price Increase or Price Gouging?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about price-gouging. Using a hypothetical post-disaster example, they will learn more about supply and demand, as well as the complexities associated with price increases in a supply-constrained market.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Market Model

For Students 9th - 10th
This study resource will help students understand, and create, graphs that are critical skills in macroeconomics. This article reviews the market model. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics Test or a...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Happened to Railroads?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Between the Civil War and World War II, railroads were one of the nation's most important businesses and an integral part of people's lives. For this lesson, students assume the role of detectives investigating why the rail companies...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Chapter 8: The Confusion Over Inflation

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain how inflation can cause redistribution of purchasing power, Identify ways inflation can blur the perception of supply and demand, and Explain the economic benefits...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Collecting for Fun . . . And Profit?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Art, baseball cards, coins, comic books, dolls, jewelry and stamps are just a few examples of the many things people collect. While some people collect for fun, others hope to profit. In this lesson, students explore how supply and...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Causes Inflation?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson explores different types of inflation and terms associated with this economic concept. You may have heard relatives talk about the good old days when a dollar would buy something. What happened to that dollar? Why won't it...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Widget Production: Producing More Using Less

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Through this economics lesson you will learn about widget production. One of the tasks is to see how productivity can help solve problems.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Deregulation and the California Utilities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"The verdict is in: California's experiment with energy deregulation is not just a mess; it's a certifiable failure, according to everyone from the state governor to the very utilities that initially backed the scheme." This is how...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Changes in Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Tutor2u

Tutor2u: Macroeconomic Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
A definition of macroeconomic equilibrium and how it changes when either aggregate supply (AS) or aggregate demand (AD) shift. Many supporting graphs are provided to help explain this concept.
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C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Labor Market

For Teachers 12th
A comprehensive learning module on the US labor market that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include economic trends that...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Price Controls

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson uses power point notes and related videos to help students understand ways that the government tries to control prices in an economic system, and what the expected results are.

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