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Science Struck

Science Struck: Learn All About the Ocean Food Chain

For Students 4th - 7th
Read about the different predators, consumers, and producers that make up an ocean food chain.
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University of Nebraska Omaha

Ecedweb: Explorations in Economic Supply, Part I

For Students 9th - 10th
Examines how supply relates to economic decision making. Using the example of purchasing blue jeans, students take the role of producer to determine how many blue jeans they would supply to the market. Includes links and discussion...
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University of Nebraska Omaha

Ecedweb: Explorations in Supply, Part Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
In this economics tutorial, you as a producer have to determine how much of a given product you should make.
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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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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Demand, Supply, and Efficiency

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to contrast consumer surplus, producer surplus, and social surplus; explain why price floors and price ceilings can be inefficient; and analyze demand and supply as a social adjustment mechanism.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Effect of Government Interventions on Surplus

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you have learned about the impact of price controls and quotas on consumer surplus, producer surplus, total surplus, and dead-weight loss in this four-question exercise.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: International Trade and Public Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you have learned about the impact of trade, tariffs, and quotas on consumer and producer surplus in this exercise.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Discovering What Plants Need for Photosynthesis

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity will be used prior to any direct instruction for photosynthesis. For this inquiry lab, middle schoolers design and conduct simple experiments using elodea and Bromthymol blue to determine whether plants consume or release...
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Other

Trinity P3: What Are the Biggest Issues and Challenges Facing Media Today?

For Students 9th - 10th
Lists some of the many major changes that the media industry is going through, at all levels and in all roles from producer to marketer to consumer. The results of an industry survey are described and a detailed summary is provided...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Making Decisions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes and a video clip provide students with an introduction to the idea of marginal analysis and of how consumers and producers make decisions.
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Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: What Is Driving Oil Prices?

For Students 9th - 10th
As the world's demand for oil rapidly increases, so do the prices for it. Learn the factors causing high oil prices and who are the world's largest consumers of petroleum. Includes discussion questions. (Published Jan. 2005)
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: The Disruption of the Artisan System of Labor

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at how goods were produced in the early 1800s in home-based businesses, only to be supplanted by factories with unskilled workers by mid-century.
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Other

Brickhaus: The Allure of Household Appliances in the 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses in detail the impact modern appliances had on the 1920s American household. Technology produced more opportunities within the household. Provides information about the benefits of electricity.
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Other

Management Control: Scientific Management

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the ideas of scientific management in mass producing products in the early 20th century. Includes ideas of Henry Ford, Frederick Taylor, and Elton Mayo.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Economics Vocabulary

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains basic economics vocabulary such as producers, consumers, and different kinds of resources; limited, unlimited, natural and human. Student assessment items are included.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Incentives Influence Us

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Find out more about the concept of incentives in our economy through this lesson plan. "You will identify incentives used at home and school."
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Planet Pals

Planet Pals: The Food Chain

For Students 3rd - 8th
Omnivores, herbivores and carnivores are waiting for you. The food chain comes to life at this friendly site.
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Activity
University of Michigan

University of Michigan: The Concept of the Ecosystem

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson looks at the definition of an ecosystem, biogeochemical cycles, and factors responsible for the differences between ecosystems.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Flow of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy flows through an ecosystem.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Clipping Coupons

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students will calculate savings for different products when using coupons. They will also decide what factors will influence the choices they make when choosing products.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: The Flow of Energy: Balancing Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A instructional activity outlining activities for a science unit where students can learn about the relationships and the flow of energy within an ecosystem. These include predator and prey, hosts and parasites, and consumers, producers,...
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Other

South Western Learning: Oligopoly/monopolistic Competition: Kinked Demand Curve

For Students 9th - 10th
This South-Western College Publishing website describes a situation in which oligopolistic firms vie for competition among consumers.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Tropical Rainforest Energy Pyramid and Its Importance

For Students 4th - 7th
Explains the roles of consumers, producers, and detrivores or decomposers and how energy flows through the different levels of the energy pyramid of a tropical rainforest.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Lean on Me! We Depend on Each Other!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Click and drag each picture to put the steps of producing and consuming a book in the correct order.

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