What causes inflation?
This lesson explores different types of inflation and terms associated with this economic concept. You may have heard relatives talk about the good o...
Grade: 9-12    Published: 01/12/2006


Collecting for Fun . . . and Profit?
Art, baseball cards, coins, comic books, dolls, jewelry and stamps are just a few examples of the many things people collect. While some people col...
Grade: 6-8 9-12    Published: 12/27/2004


Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 1)
In this lesson students will learn about the impact that efficient markets have on attempting to correctly time the stock market, as well as how in...
Grade: 9-12    Published: 11/08/2002


Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 2)
In Part II of this lesson, students will have the opportunity to complete an interactive exercise that will take them on a historical tour of the s...
Grade: 9-12    Published: 11/08/2002


Economics in the Headlines
Students learn how to identify headlines in the news and current events as illustrations of problems in supply and demand. Students will be linked ...
Grade: 9-12    Published: 05/02/2002


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Mathematics & Economics: Connections for Life - 9-12Mathematics & Economics: Connections for Life - 9-12
Grade: 9-12   Published: 2001
7 of the 15 lessons are related to this lesson. The top 5 are listed below.


Lesson 1: The Nature of Demand
This lesson develops the economic tool of demand. Demand is determined by the value that people attach to a product (a good or a service). A demand curve is a graph with a negative slope that lies in ...
Lesson 6: The Mathematics of Linear Economic Shapes: Slopes and Elasticities
As was noted in Lessons 1 - 4, a demand curve is used to describe the willingness and ability of buyers to purchase various quantities of goods and services at alternative prices. The visual represent...
Lesson 7: The Mathematics of Nonlinear Economic Shapes: The Production Possibilities Curve
Because the resources (such as raw materials, minerals, energy, labor, equipment, machinery, etc.) that are used to produce goods and services are limited in their availability, we cannot have all tha...
Lesson 2: The Nature of Supply
This lesson develops the economic tool of supply. Supply is determined by the willingness and ability of producers to sell a product (a good or a service) at different prices. A supply curve is a grap...
Lesson 5: The Gains From Trade
This lesson is an application of the supply and demand tools developed in lessons 1-4. In the earlier lessons, models of supply and demand were introduced to show students how (equilibrium) prices are...

Capstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Teacher's GuideCapstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Teacher's Guide
Grade: 9-12   Published: 2003
9 of the 45 lessons are related to this lesson. The top 5 are listed below.


Unit 2: Lesson 14 - Secondary Effects: Price Ceilings and Floors
Students investigate the consequences of price controls in markets for silver, rock concerts, automobiles, razor clams, and school textbooks. (It would be best to use this lesson after students have p...
Unit 2: Lesson 6 - Why Did Communism Collapse?
Students examine and discuss visuals to solve an economic mystery regarding the command system of the Soviet Union.
Unit 2: Lesson 13 - How Markets Allocate Resources
Students read I, Pencil, by Leonard Read, to gain an understanding of Adam Smith's concept of the invisible hand of the marketplace. Students see that a system of market prices brings about cooperati...
Unit 2: Lesson 10 - Equilibrium Prices and Equilibrium Quantities
In examining a visual about the market for yo-yos, students think through the process of mutual accommodation among buyers and sellers that results in an equilibrium price. Students then complete an ...
Unit 2: Lesson 12 - How Do Prices Influence My Behavior? Price Elasticity
Students review consumer and producer behavior in light of changing prices. They predict consumers' and producers' responses to changes in prices, product characteristics, costs of production, time a...

Economics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School EconomicsEconomics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School Economics
Grade: 9-12   Published: 2003
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Lesson 7 - A Market in Wheat
Students participate as buyers or sellers in a simulation that shows how a competitive market works. They determine individual profits or losses from market transactions. They use data from the simula...

 

 
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