Explorations of Economic Demand and Supply. 
Comprehensive lesson including discussions of curves and nonprice determinants of demand and supply.

Demand Shifters.
Students will learn about demand and factors that cause demand for a good or service to change. Students will learn to recognize factors that influence their behavior as a consumer.

Baby-sitter Shortage. 
Students use economic principles of supply and demand to explain why a sitter shortage has occurred in Washington D.C.

Rationing by Money Prices. 
Students explore the role of prices in allocating resources in a market economy through the analysis of organ transplant recipients

Scarcity and Opportunity Costs.
Students learn that productive resources are limited. Therefore, people cannot have all the goods and services they want; as a result, they must choose some things and give up others.

 

Alabama Virtual Library

Graphing Skills. This tutorial contains graphing skills found to be required in economics.

Economics America A nationwide, comprehensive program for economic education in America's schools.

The Beggar's Hand. A useful site discussing basic economic principles with an emphasis on the problems of poverty, and resource allocation.
The Beggar's Hand (mirror link)

EcEdweb.  The mission of EcEdWeb, the Economic Education Website, is to provide support for economic education in all forms and at all levels.

 AmosWEB. Outstanding online economics resource. All resources ,except the E-tutor, are available free of charge.

 ECONlinks Site developed to provide easy access to basic economic and financial information for students in economics and business courses.  The list of links is purposely not encyclopedic, but contains a variety of resources that you will find useful in your courses.

Schools of Economic Thinking

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