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Market Equilibrium Writing Exercise
For this economics worksheet, learners read 6 scenarios about market equilibrium and then select one of them to write about. Students draw demand and supply curves to accompany their written answers.
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CHAIN OF EVENTS
Students, exercising knowledge, reasoning and communication complete a chart that is well-organized and well-detailed. They assess the Economic concepts of supply and demand and how that relates to production and sales. In addition, an...
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Market Structures and Competition
Young scholars review concepts related to market structures and competition. Using supply and demand, they identify what factors cause them to shift and analyze business downward facing demand curves. They compare and contrast the...
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Where did the too many dollars come from?
Students experience demand-pull inflation while gaining insight into three major sources of the '''too many dollars" which chase after the "too few goods and services. Students participate in an auction to experience inflation firsthand.
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It's Your Future
Students learn about productive resources along with their requirements, supply and demand, savings, investments and interest rates. In this supply and demand instructional activity, students create a career plan and personal budget of...
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Will You Pick My Cotton?
Use this cross-curricular history lesson to work on your students' informational writing skills. After listening to songs and stories related to Sultana, they engage in a several activities to boost their understanding of slavery and...
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A Lesson To Accompany "The First Bank of the United States: A Chapter in the History of Central Banking"
Here is an interesting topic. Learners examine the economics that led to the founding of the First Bank of America. They participate in a reader's theater experience depicting the debate between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson...
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Crowding Out
This is an incredible resource for teaching your young economists about the loanable funds market and the concept of crowding out. It includes a hands-on, physical activity that serves as a metaphor to help explain the economic practice.
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Early 18c Europe: Proto-Industrialism
Providing key information, visually appealing pictures, and thought-provoking questions, this series of slides presents your class with a study of 18th century Europe as it becomes increasingly urbanized. From peasants to princes, the...
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Printable Play Money
There are endless uses for printable play money in your classroom, and you'll definitely want to check out these well-designed, attractive printables to add to your bank of manipulatives.
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Microeconomics Summary
Twelfth graders study microeconomics. In this Economics lesson plan, 12th graders draw graphs on government taxes. Students decide if these graphs are true or false.
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Non-Western Economic Values
Students engage in a game of economic exchange that present a variety of perspectives on wealth. They read scenarios and write a journal response to the scenario. They discuss how we use money in the Western culture and discuss how...
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Microeconomics Study Guide, Section II: Elasticities
In this economics worksheet, students define elasticity, calculate ranges of elasticity, and label diagrams pertaining to the concept of elasticity.
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New Equilibrium Worksheet
For this economics practice worksheet, students respond to 20 questions where they calculate new equilibrium points and label diagrams.
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Pumped Up Gas Prices
Learners investigate the concepts of differing gas prices and how they are set in different geographical areas. They conduct research about the economic concepts of supply and demand and predict the outcomes upon the prices of gasoline.
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In the Chips
Twelfth graders explore how markets exist whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services and that market prices are determined through the buying and selling decisions made by buyers and sellers. They also study how the market...
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The Labour Market: Flexibility
Students divide into groups to research and produce a short summary outlining the operation of the labour market in the UK. They use supply and demand diagrams to illustrate their discussion.
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Subsidies and Taxes
Students utilize supply and demand models to demonstrate how markets can be affected by intervention from governments or other agencies in an attempt to correct a perceived market failure. After viewing a PowerPoint presentation,...
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Teaching Marketing Through Auctioning
Students explore the marketing concepts of product, price, promotion and place through the auction activity.
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Supermarket Smarts
Pupils examine how a consumer can make informed choices. They visit stores with a prepared shopping list, record the prices on a spreadsheet, create graphs, and create a Powerpoint presentation comparing the total cost of stores and a...
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A FREE MARKET WITH THE HELP OF GOVERNMENT
High schoolers engage in a study that explains how laws and government have policies that affect the economy to run more smoothly. The focus is upon the historical development of the free market and how the government was involved....
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Those Golden Jeans
Students review the productives resources used to produce goods and services and explore how decisions are made in a market economy through the interactions of both the buyers and the sellers.
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Fur Trade Economics
Learners demonstrate understanding of what the fur trade was and how it was operated, including the bartering process, by participating in a mock trade activity and assessing the value of items based on their needs and wants.
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Bartering for a Living: Lesson 3
Students explore the concept o bartering during colonial times. In this colonial lesson, students discover what it was like to live and servive during the colonial times. Students also discover how people using to barter for items and...