TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Locks and Dams
Students are introduced to the structure, function and purpose of locks and dams, which involves an introduction to Pascal's law, water pressure and gravity.
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Social Science Education Consortium
Ssec: Minimum Wage: Does Raising the Rate Help Young Workers? [Pdf]
This investigation will help students examine issues related to the minimum wage, including: What does economic theory suggest will result in minimum-wage earnings and employment if the minimum wage is increased? Does an increase in the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concept of Demand
A series of resources provided to teach students the concept of demand and demand curve shifts. After taking notes, students can view two video segments to help clarify the concept.
Science Bob Pflugfelder
Science Bob: The Lincoln High Dive
Instructions for a science demonstration of Newton's first law of motion using common supplies. Learn how to turn the demonstration into an experiment.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Two Dimensional Air Drop Model
How do Red Cross pilots manage to drop loads of supplies from airplanes on a specific target? This simulation will illustrate this example of projectile motion.
Other
Arizona Kids Net: The Consumer Demand Curve
This site goes into detail about the consumer demand curve and its functions. Colorful graphs are provided to make understanding real-life situations and examples easier.
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: Analyzing the Demand Curve
Lists the determinants of demand for a product and service. The site is useful for students wishing to look further into the causes of demands. Graphs and summaries are included to aid research.
Other
South Western Learning: Oligopoly/monopolistic Competition: Kinked Demand Curve
This South-Western College Publishing website describes a situation in which oligopolistic firms vie for competition among consumers.
Yale University
Avalon Project: Treaty With Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache; July 27, 1853
Actual text of the treaty, which establishes the U.S. right to build highways, military forts, and depots on tribal land. Promises annual money and supplies to Indian nations.
Yale University
Avalon Project: Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868
Actual text of the treaty with the Sioux nation, which grants an enormous part of the Wyoming, Montana and Dakota territories to the Sioux, promises clothing and farm supplies instead of money, provides schooling, medical and other...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Lien
This entry supplies information about property laws and financial liens. Topics includes mortages and tax liens.
Yale University
Avalon Project: Treaty With Kiowa, Comanche and Apache; Oct. 21, 1867
Actual text of the Medicine Lodge Treaty, which establishes an Apache reservation, promises to establish reservation schools and increases annual payments of money and supplies.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Energy and Work Amusement Park Style
This is a lesson presenting energy and work. It covers: types of energy, forms of energy, work, law of conservation of energy, and renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. In the activities section, one will find links to Internet...
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: Explorations in Economic Demand
This site provides an analysis of the theory of demand, and determinants that can cause a shift or change in demand.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Price of Gasoline: What's Behind It?
In this lesson plan, students investigate the variables that contribute to the cost of gasoline. They learn that while OPEC nations do influence the price of oil and thus the price of gasoline, other factors also influence the price.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Those Golden Jeans
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 4: Labor and Financial Markets: Review Questions
This is a list of eight review study questions covering the information in Chapter 4: Labor and Financial Markets.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Tabella
Tabella, a billet or tablet, with which each citizen and judex voted in the comitia and courts of justice. In the comitia, if the business was the passing of a law, each citizen was provided with two tabellae, one inscribed V.R. I vote...