Curated OER
Helping Hands: Promoting Gloval Awareness
Eleventh graders explore Canadian support for foreign aide. In groups, 11th graders discuss Canadian aide policies and express their opinion of each. Students brainstorm methods of contributing to developing nations. They complete...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Real vs. Nominal Gdp
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and calculations used in calculating real and nominal GDP. Topics include the distinction between real and nominal GDP and how to calculate and use the GDP deflator. This...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: The Limitations of Gdp
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and concepts about the limitations of GDP. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics Test or a college-level macroeconomics course.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: The Circular Flow and Gdp
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and calculations used in describing the output of an economy. Key topics include the expenditures approach, income approach, and value added approach to calculating GDP...
US Department of Commerce
Bureau of Economic Analysis: Gross Domestic Product
This site contains links to gross domestic product data prepared by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Measuring the Size of the Economy: Gross Domestic Product
Read about Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and how we measure it.
Robert Schenk, PhD
Gross Domestic Product
Provides a very thorough explanation of gross domestic product including charts and the calculation process.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Economics U$a: 21st Century Edition
A micro and macroeconomics course for 21st century learners. 28 half-hour videos sessions with text and guides regarding markets, firms, supply and demand, perfect competition and inelastic demand, economic efficiency, monopolies,...
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Gross Domestic Product
Learn about the Gross Domestic Product(GDP),the sum total of the market price of all the final goods and services produced within a country's borders during a given period of time.In the U. S. it's measured in quarters of a year, then...
Other
South Western Learning: Real Gross Domestic Product (Gdp)
"Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP)," provides information about GDP in Definition, Updates, Diagrams/Data, Exercises, Connections and Econlinks sections from South-Western College Publishing, 2000.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 5: Comparing Gdp Among Countries
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain how GDP can be used to compare the economic welfare of different nations, calculate the conversion of GDP to a common currency by using exchange rates, and calculate GDP per capita...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How Well Gdp Measures the Well Being of Society
Does GDP capture everything we care about in an economy?.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Macroeconomics: Chapter 5: Tracking Real Gdp Over Time
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain recessions, depressions, peaks, and troughs; evaluate the importance of tracking real GDP over time; and analyze the impact of economic fluctuations on a country's output and price...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Tracking Real Gdp Over Time
Read about fluctuations in Gross National Product (GDP) from year to year.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Comparing Gdp Among Countries
GDP per capita is GDP (Gross National Product) divided by population. Since GDP is measured in a country's currency, in order to compare different countries' GDPs, we need to convert them to a common currency. One way to compare...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 5: How Well Gdp Measures the Well Being of Society
By the end of this section, you will be able to discuss how productivity influences the standard of living, explain the limitations of GDP as a measure of the standard of living, and analyze the relationship between GDP data and...
Other
Bureau of Economic Analysis
The homepage of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis. This site provides national, international, regional, and bureau-wide information. You can click on a link titled "GDP and related data" to get more...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Beyond Gdp: Other Ways to Measure the Economy
Read about gross national product (GNP), national income, and net national product (NNP).
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: How Economies Can Be Organized: An Overview of Economic Systems
By the end of this section, you will be able to contrast traditional economies, command economies, and market economies; explain gross domestic product (GDP); and assess the importance and effects of globalization.
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...
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is Gdp?
Learn how to find a nation's GDP and the three ways it can be measured.
Other
International Monetary Fund: World Economic Outlook Databases
These databases present economic data for individual countries, aggregated sets, and for commodity prices going back to 1999. The information is published twice a year.
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: Places and Production
In this lesson from the University of Omaha, "Students calculate United States GDP and GDP per capita, use a choropleth map to acquire information, and create choropleth maps of GDP per capita in South America. They identify regions with...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Focus on Economic Data
This lesson focuses on the second estimate of U.S. real gross domestic product for the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2012, as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on February 28, 2013. The current data and historical GDP data...