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Econoclass

Econoclass: Frozen Price Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This game helps learners to understand the concepts of changing supply, changing demand, and equilibrium price, as the price of bags of ice changes after a hurricane has swept through a community.
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Other

Microeconomics Chapter 6: Price Elasticity of Supply

For Students 9th - 10th
Scrolling down towards the bottom of this site, there are equations, diagrams, and some general information concerning price elasticity of supply.
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Other

T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc.: Money Market Securities [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Site explains the full range of securities including money market and capital market instruments.
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Other

Marketing Teacher

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Are you a marketing teacher looking for classroom resources? This website offers a variety of marketing resources including: lesson plans, exercises, quizzes, newsletters, presentations, and bookstore.
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Library of Economics and Liberty

Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Agricultural Price Supports

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a scholarly explanation of price supports. It explains why agricultural price supports are used differently by poor countries than by wealthy countries.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Socially Efficient and Inefficient Market Outcomes

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you've learned about marginal social cost and marginal social benefit in this four-question exercise.
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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: Market Equilibrium, Disequilibrium, and Changes in Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Types of Market Oriented Environmental Tools

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the three main types of market-oriented regulation, including pollution charges, marketable permits, and better-defined property rights
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Price and Quantity Controls

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you have learned about the effects of price and quantity controls, such as price ceilings and price floors, in a market in this five-question exercise.
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Other

Mf P Ltd:the Marketing Mix

For Students 9th - 10th
This page defines marketing mix in an easy to understand format. Contains graphics and dozens of links.
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Wolters Kluwer

Business Owner's Toolkit: Figuring the Costs of Setting Up Your New Business

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource includes a worksheet that can be downloaded to aid a new business owner in determining what their startup costs will be. The article provides additional links to kinds of costs a new business owner will encounter.
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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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University of Nebraska Omaha

Ec Ed Web: How Can Entrepreneurs Control Costs?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This economics instructional activity explores what influences producers to supply in regard to demand. It examines fixed and variable costs, how such costs can be reduced, and how they influence production. Includes printable worksheets.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Consumer Price Index

For Students 9th - 10th
Consumer Price Index or cost-of-living index is a measure of the change in price that an average consumer pays for a pre-defined "market basket" of goods and services. It is one of the key measurements of inflation.
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Other

South Western Learning: Econ News: Price Ceilings and Price Floors

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers a summary of when government intervention and market-determined prices are necessary to stabilize the economy. Includes an interactive quiz at the end.
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Other

Chief Marketer: Is Social Media the New Mass Media?

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the evolution of major social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter from their humble beginnings. Then looks at the user experience of marketing on social media sites as it appeared in 2010. Much of the marketing was poorly...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Demand, Supply, and Markets

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses in great detail the differences between demand, supply, and markets. Useful economic terminology is identified in bold.
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Other

South Western Learning: Econ News: The Market System Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
South-Western College Publishing offers an outline written as a study guide for an exam, which gives basic definitions of different aspects of a market economy, graphs and examples, and sample study questions at the bottom.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Stock Market Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students pick a stock that they would like to follow for a period of 2 weeks. Each day they look up the stock and chart its price. At the end of the two week period they graph their data using the graphing calculator. They compare their...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How Much Will College Cost Me?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will research the cost of college by comparing a 2-year and a 4-year institution via the Internet. Students will follow-up with a presentation and prepare a monthly budget. This lesson plan contains a financial aid component.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Monopoly

For Students 9th - 10th
Through a series of resources, this tutorial investigates the characteristics of a monopoly and how to draw a cost analysis graph. Video lessons are provided to reinforce the concept.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Government Regulation of Industry

For Students 9th - 10th
A course from MIT on the role of government in markets. Includes suggested readings, lecture notes, assignments and exams.
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Curated OER

Bized.com: The Marketing Mix

For Students 9th - 10th
A defintion of the marketing mix as the 4P's (price, product, promotion, place). Then it discusses other components such as Market skimming, Market penetration, product-oriented and market-oriented.

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