The ink was barely dry on the Constitution when the first challenges to its protections arose. These early challenges to the new constitutional republic often involved the meaning of the Constitution itself. What did its words actually mean, and who would get to decide?
This collection uses primary sources to explore early Chinese immigration to the United States. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.
Earmarks, pork barrel projects and logrolling.
Earnings, EPS (earnings per share) and how they relate to the income statement and balance sheet. Created by Sal Khan.
Economic Inequality in America Developing a New War on Poverty Lesson Plan by Michaels Gonchar Includes maps, videos and activities. Needs computers with internet connection.
Economic growth is an expansion of the capacity to produce goods and services. Economists traditionally believed that expanding the stock of capital leads to economic growth. In this video, we explore the important link between investment and growth using the PPC model. Created by Sal Khan.
This 11 minute video examines the parts of the business cycle and what factors contribute to its fluctuation. This video will aid in mastery of standard EPF. 5(c)
This 5 minute video will examine the how unemployment rate is calculated and the various types of unemployment caused by various economic factors. This video will aid enforcing content of standard 5
Economic models are a way of taking complicated ideas and events and breaking them down into their most important characteristics. We use models in economics so that we can focus our attention on a few things instead of getting bogged down a lot of details. In this video, learn more about the role that models play in economics, and the importance of the assumptions that underlie those models.
Learn about how to represent a monopoly market graphically in this video. Topics covered include the profit-maximizing quantity, pricing decisions, and deadweight loss associated with monopolies.
An important skill in microeconomics is the ability to find a firm's profit. Learn more about how to use a graph to identify the profit-maximizing quantity for a firm in a perfectly competitive market, and identify the area that represents the firm's profit or loss.
Accounting profit is what many people tend to think of when they think profit, but an economist would say that you leave something very important out when you do so: opportunity costs. In this video, explore the difference between a firm's accounting and economic profit. Created by Sal Khan.
An overview of Economic rights. Created by Kimberly Kutz.
Understanding economics, what some people call "economic literacy," is becoming essential for citizens in our national and increasingly interconnected world economy. Increasingly, productive members of society must be able to identify, analyze, and evaluate the causes and consequences of individual economic decisions and public policy including issues raised by constraints imposed by scarcity, how economies and markets work, and the benefits and costs of economic interaction and interdependence. Such literacy includes analysis, reasoning, problem solving, and decision making that helps people function as consumers, producers, savers, investors, and responsible citizens. - From the Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations
Economics of a simple business leading up to a discussion on inflation/deflation. Touching on income statements. Created by Sal Khan.
Economies of scale exist when long run average total cost decreases as output increases, diseconomies of scale occur when long run average total cost increases as output increases, and constant returns to scale occur when costs do not change as output increases.
Education as a force of convergence. A discussion with Sal Khan.
For this activity, students analyze primary documents to understand food manufacturing conditions before and after food regulations were passed in 1906. Connects to the Progressive Era and the history of regulation. Students sequence documents and photographs in this online resource. Guided questions provided.
In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, learn how Muslims in America celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the Ű_í_Ű__Ű_Ű_Ű_Feast of Breaking the Fast.Ű_í_Ű__Ű_Ű_Ű_í_Ű_
A deep dive into the Eighth Amendment, which protects citizens from excessive fines and cruel and unusual punishment. In this video, Kim discusses the Eighth Amendment with scholars John Bessler and John Stinneford.