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Econoclass

Econoclass: Frozen Price Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This game helps students to understand the concepts of changing supply, changing demand, and equilibrium price, as the price of bags of ice changes after a hurricane has swept through a community.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Chapter 3: Introduction to Demand and Supply

For Students 11th - 12th
This is an introduction to demand and supply. In this chapter, you will learn about the following: demand, supply, and equilibrium in markets for goods and services; shifts in demand and supply for goods and services; changes in...
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Summary Table of Market Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
Chart that shows what happens to equilibrium price and quantity when both supply and demand remain constant or shift.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Supply and Demand, Lessons From Toy Fads.

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The concepts of supply and demand and related terms are taught through stories about the toy fads of Hula Hoops and Silly Bandz. In 1958, Wham-O, Inc. began marketing the Hula Hoop in the United States and sales of the Hula Hoops...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Prices and Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
Through a series of resources, students use the concept of demand and supply to explain how free market prices and quantities are established, define equilibrium, and understand the idea of shortage and surplus.
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Article
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 3: Demand and Supply: Key Concepts and Summary

For Students 11th - 12th
This section summarizes the key concepts of Chapter 3: Demand and Supply from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Market Equilibrium, Disequilibrium, and Changes in Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs used in the analysis of markets. Topics include how to use a market model to predict how price and quantity change in a market when demand changes, supply...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Changes in Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice more challenging questions about changes in market equilibrium that happen when supply or demand (or both!) change in this exercise. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics Test or a college-level...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Equilibrium in the Ad as Model

For Students 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity 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...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Supply & Demand

For Students 9th - 10th
Highlights basic concepts such as the law of supply and demand, changes in demand and supply versus changes in the quantity demanded and the quantity supplied, the determinants of demand and supply, and market equilibrium.
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The Environmental Literacy Council

Environmental Literacy Council: Supply and Demand: How Markets Work

For Students 9th - 10th
An article on supply and demand and how markets work. Related links for teachers.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Shifts in Aggregate Supply

For Students 9th - 10th
If either the aggregate supply or aggregate demand curve shifts in the aggregate demand/aggregate supply-AD/A-model, the original equilibrium in the AD/AS diagram will shift to a new equilibrium. Increases and decreased in the price of...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Economics in the Headlines

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Young scholars learn how to identify headlines in the news and current events as illustrations of problems in supply and demand. Students will be linked to news sites to create their own analysis of supply and demand issues in problems...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Do People Want to Wear?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To stay in business, fashion merchandisers must be able to anticipate what consumers want. By looking at different retail websites, students will look to anticipate what consumers are demanding. Students will then go through the market...
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Robert Schenk, PhD

Saint Joseph's College: Supply and Demand Buyer Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
Summarizes buyer equilibrium. Then click Next button at the bottom to learn about seller equilibrium as well as shortages & surpluses.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Factors Change Demand?

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about factors, besides price, that affect a quantity that is demanded. This resource is designed for students who are taking a college-level microeconomics course.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Henry Ford and the Model T: A Case Study in Productivity (Part 3)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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....
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 4:the Market System as an Efficient Mechanism for Information

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to apply demand and supply models to analyze prices and quantities and explain the effects of price controls on the equilibrium of prices and quantities.