Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How the Ad/as Model Incorporates Growth, Unemployment, Inflation
The aggregate demand/aggregate supply, or AD/AS, model is one of the fundamental tools in economics because it provides an overall framework for bringing economic factors together in one diagram. These factors include economic growth,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Changes in the Ad as Model in the Short Run
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to changes in the AD-AS model. Topics include AD shocks, such as changes in consumption, investment, government spending, or net exports, and supply...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Building Blocks of Keynesian Analysis
Keynesian economics focuses on explaining why recessions and depressions occur and offering a policy prescription for minimizing their effects. The Keynesian view of recession is based on two key building blocks: recessions occur when...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Exchange Rates and Exchange: How Money Affects Trade
Students learn how currency values are set by supply and demand, and how changes in the value of currency affect international trade. Students then find the value of the Brazilian Real in 2000 and 2002, determine whether the currency has...
Other
South Western Learning: Econ News: Perfect Competition
This site offers a variety of economics-related newspaper headlines in perfectly competitive markets, and each headline offers discussion questions related to that topic.
Other
Pure Capitalism and the Market System: The Market and the 5 Es
Learn the characteristics of a Market Economy, the state the four fundamental questions faced by any economic system. From an online textbook by Mark Healy of Harper College.
University of Nebraska Omaha
University of Omaha: Lesson Plan: Why Do I Want All This Stuff? [Pdf]
This lesson plan addresses consumer demand and advertising. Indicated for grades 3 through 5.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Henry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study in Productivity (Part 3)
Henry Ford's use of mass production strategies to manufacture the Model T revolutionized industrial manufacturing. This 3-part learning unit provides students with the story of Henry Ford and the Model T from an economics perspective....
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Babysitter Shortage in Washington, d.c.
What is responsible for the shortage of babysitters in Washington, DC? Identify the parts of the article which indicate a decrease in supply and an increase in demand.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Happened to Railroads?
Between the Civil War and World War II, railroads were one of the nation's most important businesses and an integral part of people's lives. In this lesson, students assume the role of detectives investigating why the rail companies...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Law of Supply
If the price of something goes up, companies are willing (and able) to produce more of it.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Causes Inflation?
This lesson plan explores different types of inflation and terms associated with this economic concept. You may have heard relatives talk about the good old days when a dollar would buy something. What happened to that dollar? Why won't...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Deregulation and the California Utilities
"The verdict is in: California's experiment with energy deregulation is not just a mess; it's a certifiable failure, according to everyone from the state governor to the very utilities that initially backed the scheme." This is how...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: How the Crusades Led to the Finding of the New World
The instructional activity will help learners to discover the importance of the Crusades to the expansion of many European countries. Students will also be introduced to new products and find out why explorers were willing to risk all to...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Is Competition?
Explore the world of competition in business through this informative lesson plan.
Tutor2u
Tutor2u: Macroeconomic Equilibrium
A definition of macroeconomic equilibrium and how it changes when either aggregate supply (AS) or aggregate demand (AD) shift. Many supporting graphs are provided to help explain this concept.
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.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Phillips Curve
This lesson explores the relationship of unemployment to inflation in the 1960s and after. Students will discover the short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment when unemployment is less than its natural rate. Students will...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Those Golden Jeans
Check out this informative economics lesson plan designed to review the three productive resources--natural resources, human resources, and capital resources--needed to produce goods and services.
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: How Can Entrepreneurs Control Costs?
This economics activity explores what influences producers to supply in regard to demand. It examines fixed and variable costs, how such costs can be reduced, and how they influence production. Includes printable worksheets.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Equilibrium in the Ad as Model
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to a short-run macroeconomic equilibrium. Topics include how to model a short-run macroeconomic equilibrium graphically as well as the relationship...
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South Western Learning: Econ News: The Market System Study Guide
South-Western College Publishing offers an outline written as a study guide for an exam, which gives basic definitions of different aspects of a market economy, graphs and examples, and sample study questions at the bottom.
Council for Economic Education
Econedlink: Business Cycles
This video teaches the concept of Business Cycles. The pattern in which economies have periods of recession and then also periods of economic expansion or recovery is known as the business cycle.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Preface
This is a preface to the TEA AP Macroeconomics Textbook online, an OpenStax resource. It provides an overview of the text, instructional materials available, the coverage and scope of the text, and the organization of the text.