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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Market Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
In a market economy, the principles of supply and demand determine what is produced, how it is produced, and by whom it is produced and consumed. Learn how planned economies and mixed economies differ.
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Tutor2u

Tutor2u: Market Failure Positive Externalities

For Students 9th - 10th
This site examines how society can benefit by producing and consuming more of a product that causes a positive externality.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Nhmu: Living Food Web

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will be able to name some plants and animals that live in Utah's desert, forest or wetland ecosystems.
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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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Science Struck

Science Struck: Difference Between Food Chain and Food Web

For Students 3rd - 5th
Explains the characteristics of food chains and food web; the different levels of producers, consumers, and decomposers; and the differences between food chains and food webs. Includes charts and a Venn diagram comparing the two.
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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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Other

Hub Pages: Biotic Factors of Ecosystem: Producers, Consumers and Decomposers

For Students 6th - 8th
An ecosystem is composed of biotic factors of a community of living organisms interacting with one another which we can see in food chains/webs. These diverse organisms stay together because of the need of food. Population is referred to...
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Moon Crater Ecosystems Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a teacher's guide to a lesson on ecosystems. The objective is for the students to set up their own ecosystem and define the roles of producers, consumers and scavengers.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Adaptations, Interdependence and Competition

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on how plants and animals live together in a community or ecosystem by adapting, interdependence, and competition.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Organization of an Ecosystem Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the organization of an ecosystem. The feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem can be seen in food chains. Sampling allows us to measure the abundance and distribution of these species. It provides...
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Curated OER

Apple

For Students 3rd - 5th
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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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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