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In this economics activity, students will use discounting and present bias to show human behavior.

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 40: Why Do People Trade Across National Borders? from CEE's Capstone Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics publication. This lesson involves students in a trading simulation that grows in complexity. Students use this experience to inve…

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 21: Productivity, Diminishing Marginal Returns, and the Demand for Labor from CEE's Capstone Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics publication. In this lesson, students produce greeting cards with a fixed number of scissors and markers,…

In this math and personal finance lesson, students determine their monthly earned income and estimate how much they could be saving.   They graph the outcomes and find the rate of change and the line of best fit. 

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 20: Why Helping Yourself Helps Others from CEE's Capstone Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics publication. In this lesson, students examine and discuss visuals to identify an economic mystery regarding greed and self-interest. They us…

In this economics video, students will learn about human capital and play a Kahoot! game.

In the story, Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, Alexander receives a dollar from his grandparents that he plans to save, but he spends it all, a little at a time. In this lesson, students count by 2s to fill a container with 100 pennies. They are asked whether 100 pennies is the…

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 33: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and How to Measure It from CEE's Capstone Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics publication. In this lesson, Students examine GDP. They distinguish between nominal and real GDP. They study how GDP is com…

In this economics activity, students will examine potential influences on political decision-making.

In this economics lesson, students will participate in a labor market to learn about unemployment rate.