Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Price Elasticity of Demand and Price Elasticity of Supply
Quantities supplied and demanded react to changes in price. Students will learn about price elasticity of demand and price elasticity of supply in this lesson plan. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level...
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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.
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Khan Academy: Elasticity and Tax Revenue
Read about how elasticity affects tax revenue. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level microeconomics course.
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Khan Academy: Changes in Factor Demand and Supply
Practice what you have learned about how changes in the supply of labor and the demand for labor affect wages and employment. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Microeconomics Test or a college-level microeconomics course.
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Khan Academy: Changes in Equilibrium
Practice finding a new equilibrium price and quantity when supply changes, demand changes, or both supply and demand are changing simultaneously.`This resource is designed as a review for the AP Microeconomics Test or a college-level...
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Khan Academy: Changes in Equilibrium
Practice more challenging questions about changes in market equilibrium that happen when supply or demand (or both!) change in this exercise. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics Test or a college-level...
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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.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 1: Needs and Wants
First graders develop and express claims through discussions and writing in which they explore economy. Students engage with the sources to build their understanding of the content to distinguish are needs and wants. Students will also...
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Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: The Balance of Payments
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and calculations related to the balance of payments. Topics include the current account (CA) and the capital and financial account (CFA, sometimes called simply the...
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Khan Academy: What Are Market Oriented Environmental Tools?
Market-oriented environmental tools are explained, and guided questions are provided. This article from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a microeconomics course.
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Khan Academy: What Are Public Goods?
This resource explains what public goods are. This video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a microeconomics course.
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Khan Academy: What Factors Change Demand?
Read about factors, besides price, that affect a quantity that is demanded. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level microeconomics course.
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Khan Academy: What Factors Change Supply?
Read about about the many factors that affect the quantity supplied. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level microeconomics course.
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Khan Academy: Utility Maximization
Practice applying the utility maximization rule in this exercise.
Auburn University
Auburn University: A Glossary of Political Economy Terms: Land
Provides a definition for land as seen by an economist.
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Auburn University: Glossary of Political Economy Terms: Capital
This Auburn University site has a definition for capital as an economist would use the term.
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: A Simple Chocolate Bar
This site is provided for by the American Forum for Global Education. Using a candy bar as a theme, students will explore their common link to other "systems on a global scale." Mutual dependence is a key concept taught in this lesson....
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: Communication Tools
Students learn to make choices and look at alternative choices in this instructional activity from the American Forum for Global Education. Communication tools and technological change are the topic of study. This is a great opportunity...
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: Parts of You
This site is provided for by the American Forum for Global Education. Exploration of body parts is the format used to teach the economic concept of interdependence to primary young scholars.
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: How Many Systems Do I Belong to Right Now?
This site is provided for by the American Forum for Global Education. Using the concept of belonging to groups, children come to understand the concept of economics as it applies to "People Systems", or interdependence and cooperation.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: The Affluent Society
This site from the University of Toronto is a well-organized site that chronicles U.S. history. Good discussion of the effect of government spending on the economy during the Kennedy administration.
New York University
Nyu Stern: Net Exports From Nipa Accounts
This site from NYU Stern explains the effects exports have on the economy as well as defining net exports. The article is medium to brief in length but worth checking out on the subject.
CNN
Cnn: Jfk on Tape
From CNN.com, this article briefly explores Kennedy's concerns about a possible downturn in the economy and the impact it could have on his re-election in 1964. Other topics include significant international events such as the Vietnam War.
The Math League
The Math League: Percent and Probability: What Is a Percent?
This site defines a percent, explains it as a fraction and decimal, and shows how to estimate a percentage.