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Discover ready-to-use lessons, practical teaching strategies, and new ways to engage students in personal finance and economics at CEE's Educator Conference. Join fellow K-12 educators in Carlsbad, California on October 9-10.

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Free Investment Simulation

My Classroom Investor

Vanguard’s new My Classroom Investor is a free investment simulation for grades 9-12. The tool gives students hands-on experience making saving and investing decisions through a 30-year simulation based on real-world market scenarios. Students respond to changing conditions and explore how their choices can affect long-term financial goals.

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Student-Led Financial Learning Through Hip Hop

Explore how student voice, culture, and creative expression shape the way young people understand money, and practice Hip Hop–inspired strategies that spark honest, learner-led conversations about real-world financial decisions.

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Gifting Sense: Lifelong Financial Literacy Begins With Simple Consumer Decisions

In this webinar, you’ll experience firsthand how thinking before buying is an easy-to-teach, powerful, and sticky life skill – and see it applied in ways that will surprise you.

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2026 AP Microeconomics Exam Debrief

Examine the 2026 AP Microeconomics free-response questions in detail. We'll analyze the underlying concepts and share strategies to answer the questions.

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Grades 9-12, Higher Education

Big Dreams, Little Steps: Helping Students Explore Future Careers

This session will begin with an overview of the importance…

Susanna McConnell

Aug 19
5:00-6:00pm ET

Upcoming Webinar

Economics Alive! Immersive Simulations & Role-Based Learning for High School Economics

Economics Alive! explores immersive, role-based instruction as a tool for…

Aug 26
6:00-7:00pm ET

Grades 9-12, Higher Education

Keynes v Hayek: Clash of Ideas that Shaped the World

This webinar explores the influential economic debate between John Maynard…

Sep 08
5:00-6:00pm ET

6-8, 9-12

Basics of Personal Finance Video Collection

Learn the basics of personal finance by watching 2-5 minute concept videos on current event topics like insuranc…

6-8, 9-12

Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues

Help your middle school and high school students think critically with 16 ready-made lessons about ethical issue…

9-12

Financial Fitness For Life 9-12, 3rd Edition

Financial Fitness for Life, 9-12 Third Edition is a CEE publication that helps teachers prepare students for lif…

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Personal Finance Bell Ringers, Warm-ups, and Hooks

In this personal finance activity, teachers will be able to find a variety of bell ringers and warm-ups.

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Personal Finance

5 mins

Activity

Grades 9-12

Personal Finance Looping Cards: Spiraling Reality into the Classroom

Students use a looping activity to review personal finance vocabulary.

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Budgeting/Money Managment, Buying Goods and Services…

45 mins

Lesson

Grades 9-12

Thinking in Webs: Hexagon Personal Finance Puzzle

In this personal finance lesson, students will use hexagonal thinking to define and make connections linking personal finance terms and...

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making, Personal Finance

60 mins

Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

Teaching PACED Decision Making in Grades 6-12

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Decision Making

Video

Grades 6-8

Mario's Choice - Decision Making and Opportunity Cost

In this middle school lesson, students use decision-making skills to solve a scarcity problem and then write their own stories...

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts, Buying Goods and Services, Decision Making…

45 mins

Lesson

Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

National Content Standards in K- 12 Economics

This economics manual provides a framework for teaching economics in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Key Concepts: Basic Economic Concepts

Manual