Overview: The unemployment rate is one of the most important economic measurements used to determine the health of an economy. This lesson explains how it's calculated and why all unemployment is not the same.
Overview: Just like individual markets have supply and demand, there is also supply and demand for an entire country. This concept explains the similarities and differences.
Overview: Both a critically important institution and a complete mystery to many people, the Federal Reserve System is in charge of the U.S. money supply. Click here to learn how the organization operates.
Overview: How do you make sure the U.S. has enough money flowing to make transactions, but not too much so that there's not inflation? This lesson explains.
Overview: Why does the United States import so many clothes and shoes? Why do some countries seem to be associated with one product, like oil, so much? The answers to these questions, and more, can be found in this lesson.
In this LLG Instructional Support video, Georgia mathematics teacher Cassie Rape describes the relevancy of conditional probability and explains easy-to-use classroom modeling examples.
PBS LearningMedia provides a free digital resource library and suite of productivity tools, with lesson plans and self-directed modules that can be used for differentiation.
