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Marginal Revenue for an Imperfect Competitor
In this Imperfect Competitor activity, learners read then complete tables, graphs, and questions after making calculations and predictions.
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Graphing Perfect Competition
In this Graphing Perfect Competition worksheet, students analyze seven graphs, then must add to them or create their own based on directions.
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2005 AP® Microeconomics Free-Response Questions
Consumer income drives consumer demand. A set of problems explores what happens to a dairy business when consumers all of a sudden don't have as much money to spend on milk. Other prompts from College Board examine supply and demand...
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Package Design
Twelfth graders utilize the computer and various software programs in order to design a 3 dimensional package which they submit a cost estimate sheet of production in their oral presentation.
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Reading the Language of the Street
This is a very helpful one-page worksheet in which students can practice reading a stock market ticket. Using a data table that's given, students analyze different well-known stocks and their history.
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"Breadline": The Great Depression Causes, Consequences and Recovery
Students compare prices of popular items of late 1920s to cost of those items presently, determine which companies are best in which to invest, analyze causes and consequences of stock market crash of 1929, and evaluate significance of...
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Air Pollution Allowance Trading
Young scholars study pollution abatement measures based on free market trading of pollution allowances. They make a series of decisions in order to comply with environmental regulations, as well as determine the price of a pollution...
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Why People Trade
Students explore the role of government in the economy market. For this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are trying to...
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The Magic of Markets
Students examine how exchange is trading goods and services with people for other goods and services or money. They examine how people voluntarily exchange goods and services because they expect to be better off after the exchange.
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Marketing Occupations
Students investigate the practice of sexual harassment in the workplace. They watch a video of a sexual harassment situation and classify the different categories of behavior that are included in sexual harassment. Then students take a...
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Celebrate the U.S.A
Students, working in teams of four, take on the role of marketers hired to promote one state in the U.S.A. Each team researches their state in order to create a brochure highlighting its most intriguing features. Groups give a 25 minute...
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Money Simulation (mini economy)
Learners participate in a local, classroom economy in both the resource and products market. They track all transactions and learn economic principles and concepts.
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Agribusiness in a Global Environment Lesson 4
Students analyze the importance of research in development of international markets and decide how to properly contact potential customers/suppliers
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Seeking a Balance in International Trade: Pacific Rim Import-Export Transactions Activity
Twelfth graders explain the concepts of marketing, comparative advantage and the uses of monetary policy to affect markets.
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Surpluses, Shortages, and Equilibrium
Students review and discuss the meaning of equilibrium. As a class, they participate in a game of "The Price is Right" in which they guess the true market price of various items. They explain how shortages and surpluses tend to force...
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Achieving Economic Stability
Learners engage in study of the economic crash of The Stock Market in 1929. They examine the trends of the market at the time and discuss the indicators in classroom small groups. Then suggestions are made as to how this could have been...
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Oral Presentation (Speeches)
Students research, prepare, write, and give an oral presentation on a
topic related to marketing given instruction and the proper tools. They also identify the skills needed to effectively create visual aids as an asset to their job and...
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Elements of an Economic System
High schoolers review the elements of an economic system. Using a circular flow model, they explain the flow of money, products and factors of production. They identify transactions that would occur in the product and factor markets.
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Westward Expansion - Fur Trade
Young scholars complete a unit of lessons to learn how products reach the market and study the history of the fur trade. For this history and trade lesson, students first learn about the technology that allowed products to reach market...
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Why We Trade: Exchanging Goods and Services
Students conduct simple bartering and trading activities and consider how product value can be altered by the market.
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World War I: Propaganda
Students examine propaganda from the World War I era. Using the examples, they identify how they were able to change the opinions of those viewing it. They discuss whether the United States entered the war to find new markets and further...
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Business Lessons from the Basket Weaver
Students explore the basket weaving business and entrepreneurship in action. They discuss the basket weaving business and identify business concepts that apply to the creation and sell of baskets. Students identify factors that regulate...
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Brain Drain Signals Trouble at Technology Companies
High schoolers explore the concept of turnover. In this turnover lesson, students read an article about executives leaving their business. High schoolers discuss the benefits of turnover. Students create their own business and list the...
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Firm in the Middle
In this Firm in the Middle activity, students analyze a diagram and answer several questions, then they look at a model and write about examples that could fit into it.
