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Robert Schenk, PhD

Cyber Economics: Monopolistic Competition

For Students 9th - 10th
E-learning site uses an example of "pushcarts on the beach" to demonstrate a monopolistically competitive market structure and how, as more firms enter the market, price, quantity, and deadweight loss are all affected.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Changes in Equilibrium Price and Quantity: The Four Step Process

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Economics in the Headlines

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Factors Change Supply?

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Egwald Web Services: Imperfect Competition Models: Monopolistic Competition

For Students 11th - 12th
This site provides an in-depth examination of monopolistic competition, along with appropriate levels of output, price, and corresponding profits. This site is for the advanced student of economics.
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Do People Want to Wear?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...