Student Learning Map

  • Topic:Supply and Demand
  • Subject(s):Social Studies
  • Days:10
  • Grade(s):12
Key Learning: The interaction of supply and demand is an essential component of a market economy.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
How do changes in price affect how goods and services are distributed in an economy?
   
Concept: Demand
Concept: Supply
Concept: The Interaction of Supply and Demand
Lesson Essential Question(s):

What is the law of demand? (A)

What are the determinants of demand? (A)

How do the real income effect, the substitution effect, and diminishing marginal utility relate to the law of demand? (A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

What is the law of supply? (A)

What is the law of supply? (A)

How does the prospect of greater profits affect quantity supplied? (ET)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

What are the determinants of supply? (A)

What is the equilibrium price and quantity? (A)

How do the real income effect, the substitution effect, and diminishing marginal utility relate to the law of demand? (ET)

What factors/events cause the equilibrium price to shift? (ET)

How is price affected by shortages and surpluses? (ET)

Additional Info:

Textbook: Economics Today and Tomorrow, chapter 7 as well as related ancillary materials.

Resources:

Vocabulary Report

  • demand -
  • equilibrium price -
  • law of supply -
  • shortage -
  • quantity supplied -
  • supply -
  • supply schedule -
  • surplus -
  • market -
  • price ceiling -
  • supply curve -
  • voluntary exchange -
  • price floor -
  • technology -
  • law of demand -
  • rationing -
  • law of diminishing returns -
  • quantity demanded -
  • real income effect -
  • black market -
  • substitution effect -
  • utility -
  • marginal utility -
  • law of diminishing marginal utility -
  • demand curve -
  • demand schedule -
  • complementary good -
  • elasticity -
  • price elasticity of demand -
  • elastic demand -
  • inelastic demand -