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Market Basics: Demand, Supply, and Price Determination
Students are introduced to the concepts of supply and demand. Using the Law of Demand and Supply, they develop charts and graphic models of supply and demand. They compare and contrast the behavior of consumers and suppliers when there...
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Supply and Demand
Students define economic terms, list three conditions that must be present in order for demand to exist, define law of supply and demand, differentiate between buyer's and seller's markets, examine concept of elasticity, view tutorial on...
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A New Business: Vinnie's Pizzeria and the Lessons of Supply and Demand
In this supply and demand activity, students read about supply and demand and the impact these can have on a new business. They then answer the 9 questions in the packet. The answers are at the end of the packet.
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Principles of Macroeconomics for AP® Courses 2e
The informational textbook covers topics like supply, demand, price ceilings, and markets for goods and services. Scholars also review vocabulary and test their knowledge of the material with the assessments provided within the resource.
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Soda Sales
Students are shown how to chart a supply demand curve, analyze information from a chart and send and receive information to participating schools by use of telecommunications (an added objective could be for fund-raising). They determine...
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The Economics of Income: If You’re So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?
If basketball players make more than teachers, why shouldn't learners all aspire to play in the NBA? Unraveling the cost and benefits of education and future economic success can be tricky. Economic data, real-life cases, and some...
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The Business of Agriculture
Learners explore the importance of agribusiness in the US economy. They play one game where they sort and discuss the importance of agricultural commodities. They also play the game Pit to better understand how agricultural products are...
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Extending the Analysis of Aggregate Supply
Use as a supplimental material or to compliment a full unit on Aggregate Supply. This presentation was originally intended to accompany the McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2002 Economics text, but could be used with any similar lesson.
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Economic Health Indicators: GDP and CPI Worksheet
Examine the nation's economic health using this GDP and CPI activity, which features helpful graphic depictions of complex concepts. The first 2 pages include 17 short-answer questions intended to guide reading from a text (not...
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Chapter 13: Money and Banking
Where does money come from? If your class can't answer this question (beyond "my parents"), this presentation will be a timely and appropriate way to teach them. Details about currency, money supply, and the banking system, help explain...
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Oligopoly
Economics can be a competitive and, at times, devious subject. Learners work through a series of four worksheets to better understand oligopoly. Each sheet includes real-world scenarios, passages to read, graphs to analyze, and short...
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Market Failures
Market failure and the effects it has in terms of social benefit is the focus of this eight-page packet. Perfect for homework, this set of excellent worksheets provides several scenarios and graphs that show positive and negative...
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Supply & Demand (Economics)
In this economics activity, students answer six questions about supply and demand by using the provided word bank.
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Economics
Third graders write about a time they have experienced supply and demand affecting price. In this economics lesson, the students define basic economic words, then the teacher introduces a real-life example of supply and demand affecting...
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Economics during the Civil War
Students synthesize the concepts of scarcity, supply, and demand, pertaining to the Civil War time period. In this economics lesson, students gain understanding of economic terms through read-alouds, Venn diagrams, (comparing lifestyles...
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Lesson 9: Tracking Commodities
Over the corse of a month, small groups will monitor the price of a specific energy commodity and analyze it in relation to global and domestic events. They play a trade simulation game and create infographics showing what they've...
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Buying and Selling: Getting Cherries into a Pie
Kids keep score as they take on the roles of buyers and sellers in an agribusiness introduction. They play the game for five rounds, each round is made different by having a new economic element added, a discussion follows. Everything...
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The Economics of Health Care
Health care is an industry that impacts every American. Study the economics behind the Health care industry in the US with this supplementary presentation. Intended for use with a McGraw-Hill textbook, these slides will help upper...
Council for Economic Education
What's the Big Deal about Spices?
Today's gourmands don't consider spices to be the equivalent of silver and gold. During the middle ages, however, these commodities were precious. People back then used spices in religious ceremonies, to cure rotten food, and as a show...
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Supply and Demand
Students explore social studies. In this economics lesson, students understand the concept of supply and demand and how it affects consumers in every day life. They work as a class to participate in an auction style game.
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Perfect Competition
Young economists consider perfect competition, market demand, supply, and long-run equilibrium in this practical activity. There are eight multiple part questions to answer, real-world scenarios to consider, and graphs to complete.
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"Let's Make Some Money"
Students complete a project about economics, supply, and advertising. In this advertising lesson plan, students discuss how money is made, entrepreneurs, and advertising. They make their own business with toys to sell to Kindergartners.
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Demanding Celebs: Business Studies
Celebrities and economics? Business or economics classes discuss how different celebrities' stocks have been affected by supply and demand. They track the news to identify factors that impact value, discuss and justify their choice of...
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Externalities Worksheets
Explore economics with this resource on externalities, supply and demand, and third party costs. Learners answer questions, provide examples, analyze and change graphs, and make predictions about the impact of variables.