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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Producer and Consumer Surplus

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Does the Nation Consume?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson will focus on what the nation consumes and how that is measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In the United States, the goods and services produced for household consumption account for about two-thirds of total output.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Producers and Consumers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will teach the difference between producers and consumers. It provides an interactive way for students to get involved and actually become producers and consumers.
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Activity
Sheppard Software

Sheppard Software: Parts of the Food Chain: Producers, Consumers, Decomposers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how scientists classify different types of organisms in an ecosystem or in a food chain by their role and function as either a producer, a consumer, or a decomposer. Then play a game that tests your understanding of these important...
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Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigation a Food Web: Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Being field scientists, students will explore a wooded area in their community and journal about their observations. Students will collect information about producers, consumers, and decomposers in the ecosystem. They will then construct...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Consumers and Decomposers

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Based upon the way organisms acquire their energy students will understand how to group them as consumers, decomposers or producers.
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Handout
PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Producers and Consumers

For Students 9th - 10th
This concise site that provides an explanation of what producers are along with a short quiz to test your knowledge of producers and consumers.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: We Are Consumers and Producers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan is geared toward beginning economics concepts. "In this lesson you are going to learn more about how you and others are consumers and producers."
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Consumer and Producer Surplus and Allocative Efficiency

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you've learned about consumer and producer surplus in this four-question exercise.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Consumers and Decomposers

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Producers make their own food through photosynthesis. But many organisms are not producers and cannot make their own food, but must get their energy from other...
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 2: Producers and Consumers

For Teachers 2nd
In this instructional task, 2nd graders develop and express claims through discussions and writing in which they explain how a person can be both a producer and consumer.
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Graphic
National Geographic

National Geographic: Coral Reef Food Web

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the food web in a coral reef with these illustration. Identify the consumers, producers, and decomposers that are located within this ecosystem. Site includes illustration exploring the different food chains as well as questions...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Producing and Consuming

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Lesson that helps students understand the difference between producers and consumers. Students create booklets, making them producers, and then use the booklets to complete the instructional activity, making them consumers.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Hey, Mom! What's for Breakfast?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students working in cooperative groups will: 1.Discuss food items they consume for breakfast. 2.Investigate elements of foreign culture, particularly food. 3.Use map skills to locate selected foreign nations. 4.Increase...
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Handout
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Producer Price Indexes

For Students 9th - 10th
This page presents general information on the Producer Price Index, detailed statistics, tables and official publications, and more.
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Website
Other

Association of Natural Bio Control Producers

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is all about integrated pest management. Here you can learn about beneficial producers and consumers.
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Activity
Edutopia

Edutopia: Goods and Services [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A unit that teaches the difference between goods and services, the difference between producers and consumers, the difference between human, natural, and capital resources, and the difference between bartering/trading and buying/selling....
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Experiment With Ecosystems

For Students 4th - 7th
Learn what happens to different populations of organisms as their ecosystem changes. Design your own experiment and make your own guesses with what the result will be with this virtual ecosystem. Also experiment with producer/consumer...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lesson Overview: Consumer and Producer Surplus

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduced the basics of a branch of economics known as welfare economics, which is interested in how the allocation of resources affects well-being. The most important concepts used in welfare analysis are total surplus and...
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Handout
Utah Education Network

Uen: Biological Energy Food Chain Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
After reviewing the roles of consumers, producers and decomposers, you'll create your own food chains using pictures from magazines. The site also has 18 questions to see if you can identify the ecologic role played by various organisms.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Producers and Consumers: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will review the difference between producers and consumers, and show how both play important roles in a food web. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Producers and Consumers."
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 3: Producers and Consumers

For Teachers 3rd
Read and study the sources about the roles that different people have in the Louisiana economy. As you read the three sources, think about what would happen if some people gave up those roles.

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