Key Concepts: Cost-Benefit Analysis 1, Employment/Unemployment, Marginal Analysis 2…
Grade 9-12
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Unemployment Survey Lesson Demo
Objective
Teachers will be able to:
- Learn how to implement Lesson 18 on unemployment from CEE’s High School Economics publication.
Standards
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In this economics lesson demo video, teachers will learn how to model Lesson 18 from CEE’s High School Economics publication.
Description
In a role-play activity, students conduct their own employment survey and use the data to calculate an unemployment rate. After calculating the unemployment rate, students discuss the shortcomings of using only the unemployment rate to gauge the health of the labor market.
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