Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Industrializing America
Comprehensive teaching unit that explores the "second industrial revolution" and the mass production of consumer goods. This, in turn, caused an increase in the labor force and immigration. Learn how these changes brought about the start...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Yearning to Breathe Free Webisode 10
This wonderful website, Freedom, a History of US, based on the series by Joy Hakim, presents the tenth webisode, Yearning to be Breathe Free. Through text, photographs, and audio segments you can get a good picture of the state of...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Bringing the Market to the Farm
This printable lesson discusses producers and consumers from an agricultural perspective. It focuses on choices that the consumer has with regard to purchasing agricultural goods (e.g. fruits and vegetables). As an example, it uses...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Positive and Negative Incentives
Website with video and links to related resources exploring positive and negative incentives and choice in the economy.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Opportunity Cost
Website with short video [0:20] and quiz teaches the concept of opportunity cost. Links to related material and lessons.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: How E Commerce Influences Consumer Choice
In this instructional activity learners learn decision making skills that will help them become better consumers. As consumers they have a variety of alternatives from which to choose. They learn about the importance of price information...