Curated OER
Year Book Page Special Shape Collage
Learners design a collage of pictures for a yearbook that make a shape. They determine the area of the shape and the price of putting the collage in the yearbook.
Curated OER
Running a School Bakery
Students explore marketing concepts while producing food items to sell.
Curated OER
Wacky Water World
Eighth graders calculate a system of equations to find the best ticket price for a ticket at a water park. They explain how the equations helped them make their decision on the best price.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Inflation
This online slideshow teaches students about the economic concept of inflation.
Texas A&M University
Texas A&m University: Market Characteristics
This site sets up a list of market characteristics. Sample price and volume data included.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prices and Equilibrium
Through a series of resources, students use the concept of demand and supply to explain how free market prices and quantities are established, define equilibrium, and understand the idea of shortage and surplus.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Producer and Consumer Surplus
By using notes and supporting videos, tutorial helps students to acquire an understanding of producer and consumer surplus and to be able to calculate it.
Save And Invest
Finra Investor Education Foundation: Revenue, Expenses and the Break Even Point
This lesson plan introduces students to fundamental concepts of successfully starting and running a business, focusing on revenue, expenses, expansion and use of break-even point analysis.
Save And Invest
Finra Investor Education Foundation: Break Even Point
This lesson plan introduces students to fundamental concepts of starting and running a business, focusing on break-even point analysis.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Percent of Change Grades 9 10
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use the percent change formula to solve real-world applications.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arithmetic: Prices Involving Sales Tax
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Have you ever had to calculate a tip in a restaurant? Figure out the amount with taxes and estimate appropriate tips.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Higher You Climb, the More You Pay
Students will take a "Virtual Tour" of the Eiffel Tower in Paris France and locate the price of a bottle of water at each viewing platform. They will need to problem solve how to pay for admission, buy the water and be able to pay for...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Price of Gasoline: What's Behind It?
In this lesson, 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.
Other
International Monetary Fund: Trading Around the World
An interactive simulation and role-playing activity based on a fast-paced game that challenges the player to buy low and sell high. The simulation is a trading model that matches the player with computerized traders from around the world.
Council for Economic Education
Econedlink: Supply
This video teaches the concept of Supply. Supply refers to a relationship between price and the quantity of a good or service that firms are willing to produce. The website contains an interactive quiz and links for related lesson plans.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Shopping Vocabulary
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on numbers, prices, and shopping phrases. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce material...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Best Deal
Learners will learn how to determine 'price per unit' to help make decisions when comparing products.
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission: Consumer: Saving Money When You Shop
Learn how to save money when you shop. Tips for using coupons and how to find a good deal.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Building Blocks of Keynesian Analysis
Keynesian economics focuses on explaining why recessions and depressions occur and offering a policy prescription for minimizing their effects. The Keynesian view of recession is based on two key building blocks: recessions occur when...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Long Run Self Adjustment in the Ad as Model
Practice what you've learned about the long-run adjustment of output, employment, and prices to changes in aggregate demand and short-run aggregate supply in this exercise.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Frontline: The Other Drug War Teacher's Guide
Consider the debate over prescription drug pricing, the government's role in regulating drug prices, concepts of media literacy and the role of these concepts in pharmaceutical advertising, in this Teacher's Guide to "The Other Drug...
Digital History
Digital History: The Age of Inflation
This site is a short article on inflation, but has a few prices of everyday goods from 1967 that might help in understanding inflation and how much prices have increased.
University of Massachusetts
Nibble: Unit Price
Here is an article discussing unit price. The article talks about buying in bulk and buying store brands to receive the same product for a lower unit price.