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This video teaches the concept of Opportunity Cost. Opportunity cost is what you must give up to obtain something else, the second-best alternative. However, what you must give up to obtain your first choice is not really money--i...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Productive Resources. Productive resources are used to produce goods and services and are classified into four categories: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Productivity, which is measured as the quantity of output per unit of input.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Property Rights, which refers to the legal ownership of resources, including the right to own, use and sell them. Property rights are essential to the transactions in a market economy, and one of ...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Scarcity. The total resources of society, including natural resources, human resources, capital goods and entrepreneurship, are limited, causing scarcity to exist.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Technology. The set of instructions or blueprints that inform producers about the various ways that capital and labor can be combined to produce a particular product is the technology of productio...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Trade, Exchange and Interdependence. People do not make everything that they and their family use: that is, they do not grow all their own food, sew their own clothes, build their own house and pr...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Aggregate Demand. Aggregate demand shows the total (or aggregate) demand for final goods and services at a range of price levels for final output during a stated period of time.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Aggregate Supply. Aggregate supply shows the total (or aggregate) production of final goods and services available at a range of price levels for final output during a stated period of time.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Budget Deficits and Public Debt. If taxes collected are less than the money spent in a given year, the government has a budget deficit. When a budget deficit occurs, the government borrows the mo...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Business Cycles. The pattern in which economies have periods of recession and then also periods of economic expansion or recovery is known as the business cycle.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Economic Growth. Economic growth refers to the ability of the economy to increase its total real output or real GDP, or its real output per person.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Employment and Unemployment. Employment refers to people who have jobs while unemployment refers to people who wish to work but cannot find jobs.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Fiscal Policy. Fiscal policy refers to how government taxing and spending policy can be used to influence the macroeconomy.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). GDP is the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country, usually measured over a year.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Inflation, which is an increase in the average price level in the economy.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve. Monetary policy involves regulating the money supply, banks and the overall financial system. Monetary policy is conducted by a central bank, which in the...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Real GDP vs. Nominal GDP.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Competition and Market Structures. In the context of markets, competition refers to the situation when producers would each like to sell their goods or services to the same customers. The great be...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Demand. Demand refers to a relationship between price and the quantity of a good or service that consumers demand.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
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