Curated OER
Growing Money
Fourth graders sell plants. In this business lesson students propagate plants from cuttings. Students create a business to sell the plants they grow.
Curated OER
How Can Big Business Make Money From Tariffs?
High schoolers explore the concept of the rise of big business in the United States. In this economics instructional activity, students investigate the impact of tariffs on businesses. High schoolers also investigate the impact that...
Curated OER
The IMF in Action: Who is the IMF?
Young scholars use the internet to examine IMF member countries. They work together in groups to read information about the different IMF representatives. They discuss what they have read.
Curated OER
Trade Allows Us To Buy Products at Reasonable Prices
Students discover that trade allows us to buy products at reasonable prices. They research information based on the group they belong to. They participate in a debate based on the different positions.
Curated OER
Microeconomics Summary
Twelfth graders study microeconomics. In this Economics lesson, 12th graders draw graphs on government taxes. Students decide if these graphs are true or false.
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,...
Council for Economic Education
Econedlink: Profit Video and Quiz
This video teaches the concept of Profit. Profit is income received for entrepreneurial skills or risk taking and is calculated by subtracting a firm's costs of producing a good or service from the revenues received from selling the good...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Perfect Competition Foundational Concepts
Practice what you have learned about the foundational ideas behind perfectly competitive markets, including the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market, profit-maximization, and graphs of perfectly competitive firms.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How Perfectly Competitive Firms Make Output Decisions
See examples of how perfectly competitive firms decide how much to produce.
Other
Ratifying Kyoto Will Benefit Canada's Competitiveness
A sophisticated and in-depth research document suitable for senior students needing a primary study in the benefits of the Kyoto Protocol to Canada's economic competitiveness. A large Adobe PDF document is clickable and downloadable. The...
Other
Egwald Web Services: Imperfect Competition Models: Monopolistic Competition
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.
Other
Online Texts: Monopolistic Competition: Demand Change
This site uses graphs to show how changes in demand would change a firm's output, price, and profits or losses in a monopolistically competitive market structure.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Perfect Competition
This site shows cost curves for a firm in a perfectly competitive market, and has an interactive graph to show what their profit margin is at various levels of production.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Happened to Railroads?
Between the Civil War and World War II, railroads were one of the nation's most important businesses and an integral part of people's lives. In this lesson plan, learners assume the role of detectives investigating why the rail companies...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 3)
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S. government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. For this series of three lessons, the...
Curated OER
Perfect Competition
This site shows costs curves for a firm in a perfectly competitive market, and has an interactive graph to show what their profit margin is at various levels of production.
Other
Foundation for Teaching Economics: Homepage
The Foundation for Teaching Economics is committed to excellence in economic education. The Foundation offers free workshops for high school educators and students. This site includes workshop dates, locations, and registration...
Curated OER
Monopolistically Competitive Firm in Long Run Equilibrium
This site uses interactive graphs to show how changes in demand would change a firm's output, price, and profits or losses in a monopolistically competitive market structure.