This lesson focuses on learning to spot logical fallacies in arguments. All of us need to acquire skills to protect ourselves from falling victim to tricks of logic. By learning to detect fallacies, you can protect your values, your...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to pinpoint the controlling idea, which not only identifies the main idea, but also answers questions about the author's goal or...

In this lesson, students will review two elements of fiction, setting and plot, and learn how the setting influences the plot in stories.

This is a list of five critical thinking questions based on content presented in Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.

This is a set of 11 review questions based on the content covered in Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.

This is a list of seven self-check questions covering the content presented in Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.

This section focuses on the key concepts and a summary of macroeconomics covered in Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity from the TEA AP Macroeconomics.

By the end of this section, you will be able to analyze arguments against economic approaches to decision-making, interpret a trade-off diagram, and contrast normative statements and positive statements.

By the end of this section, you will be able to identify factors that affect demand, graph demand curves and demand shifts, identify factors that affect supply, and graph supply curves and supply shifts.

By the end of this section, you will be able to explain demand, quantity demanded, and the law of demand; identify a demand curve and a supply curve; explain supply, quantity supply, and the law of supply; and explain equilibrium,...

This page poses a situation which is followed by four problems to solve. They are based on information in Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.

This is a list of 11 self-check study questions covering the content of Chapter 3: Demand and Supply from the TEA AP Macroeconomics online text.

By the end of this section, you will be able to identify equilibrium price and quantity through the four-step process; graph equilibrium price and quantity; contrast shifts of demand and supply and movements along a demand or supply...

In this lesson, you will practice making connections between ideas on the same topic. Some of the ideas will differ from each other, so we will learn how to identify and synthesize important details and draw conclusions. W.9-10.7 Research

Determining the theme is not easy; you have to use the clues the author leaves to figure it out yourself. The author implies information about the story through plot points, setting, and characters. You infer and draw conclusions based...

This resource presents a topical annotated bibliography of references used in this AP Macroeconomics online textbook.

The indifference curve framework helps to clarify the logic of the underlying model. People cannot really put a numerical value on their level of satisfaction. However, they can, and do, identify what choices would give them more, or...

This appendix should be consulted after first reading "Welcome to Economics." Though economics is not math, there is no important concept in this course that cannot be explained without mathematics. That said, math is a tool that can be...

This section provides five problems to solve based on the information presented in Ch. 18: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson discusses the building blocks of phrases and clauses. Notice how the building blocks of phrases follow the parts of speech-nouns, verbs, adjectives, and so on....

This lesson is about the proper use of subordinating conjunctions. You will learn to make your writing more interesting by using conjunctions, but you will specifically focus on subordinating conjunctions such as because, when, while.

In this lesson, you will learn to edit your final draft using a step by step approach to complete the final stage of writing called editing.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to revise your writing for clarity. You will begin by reviewing some major considerations for revision: genre, purpose, and audience. You will...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to analyze literary nonfiction, especially speeches, by making inferences and drawing conclusions based on evidence in the text. The...