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...
Khan Academy
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...
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...
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: Andersonville Prison: An Economic Microcosm
This site provides a lesson plan that investigates concepts of scarcity, economic wants, command economic systems, market economic systems, and markets and prices.
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...
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.
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Aggregate Demand Aggregate Supply (Ad As) Model
This study resource will help students 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...
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: Marketplace: Price Increase or Price Gouging?
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.
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.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Prices Are Changing
This instructional activity will help students to understand how markets are created by the interaction of buyers and sellers, what demand and supply are, what equilibrium price is, and how demand and supply interact with price changes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Banking and the Expansion of the Money Supply
This lesson summary from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking the AP Macroeconomics course. In this lesson summary will review key terms and calculations related to fractional reserve banking, required reserves, excess...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Market Equilibrium, Disequilibrium, and Changes in Equilibrium
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs used in the analysis of markets. Topics include how to use a market model to predict how price and quantity change in a market when demand changes, supply...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Elasticity in the Long Run and Short Run
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.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Collecting for Fun . . . And Profit?
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Market Model
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...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Do People Want to Wear?
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...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Tapped Dry: How Do You Solve a Water Shortage?
Economists do not operate in a vacuum. If an economist is going to suggest that the price of a good needs to be increased, he or she needs to consider who will bear the increase in costs. Will the costs be distributed equally or will one...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Economics of Recycling
Learners will review the legislation in Japan that requires all consumers to pay a fee for recycling large appliances.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Economics of the Family Farm
Learn about the status of farming as a career, investigate the management of a family farm, and examine one recent farm crisis in this lesson.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Widget Production: Producing More Using Less
Through this economics lesson you will learn about widget production. One of the tasks is to see how productivity can help solve problems.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Changes in the Ad as Model in the Short Run
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...