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Fairytale Fabrics
Students read fairy tales and folk tales and discuss the facts of each story. After reading their favorite story, they create original illustrations on heavy fabric or canvas using fabric markets. Students depict as many scenes as...
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Understanding "Me", the Product
Students examine ways to market themselves. In this career skills lesson students analyze different advertisements, complete a worksheet and answer questions.
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Marketing Occupations
Students identify and explain the variables effecting supply and demand in the marketing industry. Then they define the terms supply and demand and graph supply and demand curves on a standard grid. Students also formulate what happens...
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Economic Activity and Markets
High schoolers identify and interpret that economic activity involves making choices in the face of scarcity, therefore making choices involves a cost. They also identify that individuals interact in markets by inducing one another,...
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Why Does Money Have Value?
Learners study money and its value and usage in the world today. In this economic lesson, students research money as they learn what it stands for, why it is important, how it is valued and what it represents in the United States.
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WHY DOES MONEY HAVE VALUE?
Students learn that money has value by examining the history, meaning of money. market structures and pricing. In this analysis lesson plan, students use exchange rates to find the cost of an item different currencies.
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Create and Market Your Product
Learners work in groups of four to create and market a product. They choose or create a product which fits snuggly in the box given at the beginning of class. Students are told that the product must not be an article of clothing, shoes...
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From the Store to the Shopper
Students explore the marketing process that companies use, including their advertising campaigns. As a class, they discuss how supermarkets develop new brands, determine how to package their goods, price them, and select the products....
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Command and Market in One Economy
Students organize governmental acts on a chart as either a Market or Command economy. In groups, they note the characteristics of each type of economy and identify their differences. They also explain any item that is related to the...
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Fresh From The Farm
Students investigate the concept of a farmer's market and how it used in the community. They conduct a survey to find the kinds of produce grown to be sold in the market. The lesson includes extensive introductory information for...
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ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
Students list and explain the three types of economic systems as well as the three economic questions that every economic society must answer at one time or another. In addition, they identify the five features of our market economy.
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To Market to Market
Fourth graders research a product and participate in an integrated simulation of a free market economy where students will create, buy and sell a good or service. In completing this activity, 4th graders understand the concepts and...
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Price Controls: Prescribed Drugs in North America
Students examine the nature of price controls, the impact of maximum prices below the equilibrium level on a market, the effect it can have on other markets, the requirements for effective price discrimination in a market, and the price...
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Al Mercado
Middle schoolers investigate the concept of a market. They produce a dramatization to simulate the daily activities found inside. Students ask questions about the price, location, and use of items. The acting strengthens communication...
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Mass Production
Sixth graders work together as a class to become a company that has the job of researching, designing, manufacturing, and marketing a useful product. Student transfer plans of final design into a CAD drawing and mass produce the...
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Farmers and Growers
Students explore the lives and work of the farmers and growers of specialty crops of the West. The amount of land and natural resources needed, the fertilizers utilized, and the market available for the crops are investigated in this...
Other
Treaty Establishing the European Community
This page provides access to the "Treaty establishing the European Community as Amended by Subsequent Treaties: ROME, 25 March 1957." Links are provided for each article.
Other
Marketing Teacher
Are you a marketing teacher looking for classroom resources? This website offers a variety of marketing resources including: lesson plans, exercises, quizzes, newsletters, presentations, and bookstore.
Other
Ciudad Rodrigo
Visit the Spanish city of Rodrigo at this official city site and learn about its features and festivals popular throughout Spain. A brief history, in Spanish, and photographs document the Spanish holidays celebrated in Ciudad Rodrigo....
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 7: Las Compras
In this seventh unit of an intermediate Spanish course, students learn about shopping and develop their listening, speaking, and writing vocabulary around this topic. Includes modeling of oral Spanish pronunciation and conversation,...
Duke University
Hartman Center: Emergence of Advertising in America
The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 (EAA) presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Glossary of Political Economy Terms: Market Economy Defined
This site is a fairly complete explanation of market economy prepared by Dr. Paul Johnson of Auburn University. It also includes hyperlinks to several related topics.
Other
Smalltown Marketing: How to Make a Super Brochure or Mailing Piece
Presents information on the purpose of brochures, mistakes to avoid, how to write brochure copy, and how to structure brochure.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Albert Bierstadt
This museum article provides fifteen thumbnail images of Albert Bierstadt's paintings are available for enlarging, with biographical information on a separate page.