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Lesson Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Changes in Equilibrium Price and Quantity: The Four Step Process

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Factors Change Demand?

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Factors Change Supply?

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Lesson Plan
University of Nebraska Omaha

University of Omaha: Lesson Plan: Why Do I Want All This Stuff? [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan addresses consumer demand and advertising. Indicated for grades 3 through 5.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Price Floor

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains, using graphs, how a price floor work, and how an effective price floor will create a surplus in a market.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Supply and Demand" by O Henry

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of the short "Supply and Demand" by O. Henry. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
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Interactive
Other

Gazillionaire

For Students 9th - 10th
Play the game of business strategy. Wheel and deal to "determine where supply meets demand." Fun way to learn about the business world.
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Activity
Tutor2u

Tutor2u: Theory of Supply

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a simple definition of market supply and the supply curve. Illustrates concept with a graph.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Economics Vocabulary

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains basic economics vocabulary such as producers, consumers, and different kinds of resources; limited, unlimited, natural and human. Student assessment items are included.
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Handout
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Aggregate Supply and Demand

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a short lesson on business cycles, aggregate demand, and aggregate supply. It has some good explanations of the terms.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Supply and Demand

For Students 9th - 10th
This website offers a very simple yet helpful description and example of the interaction of supply and demand, and what will happen to price and quantity when one or both of your supply and demand curves shift. This would be a good place...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Supply and Demand

For Students 9th - 10th
This website offers a very simple yet helpful description and example of the interaction of supply and demand, and what will happen to price and quantity when one or both of your supply and demand curves shift. This would be a good place...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Graph of Supply and Demand Curves

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shows both a supply and demand schedule, and constructs a graph using this schedule. It continues on to discuss equilibrium, and then shows a new equilibrium after there has been a change in supply.
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Graphic
Curated OER

A Shortage

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides easy to understand examples of shortages and surpluses, and what each looks like on a supply and demand graph.
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Graphic
Curated OER

A Surplus

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides easy to understand examples of shortages and surpluses, and what each looks like on a supply and demand graph.