AP U.S. Government & Politics

Use the fall 2026 framework, its 60 numbered topics, 13 foundational documents, and 14 required cases. The two free games provide partial topic practice. The member Topic 1.1 set adds four games, a four-chapter simulation, and separate practice and keys aligned to LO 1.1.A. The full course remains in development.

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After the Storm: Bellweather

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The Fourth Estate: Calder Files

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Liberty Square: The Open Record

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Capitol Courier: The Paper Trail

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Roads to Timbuktu

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Ink & Influence

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Milltown 1842

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Lines of Peace

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Market Street: Open for Business

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Future in Motion

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The Credit Case

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Supply Line: The Last Mile

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Council at a Crossroads

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Monsoon: A Trader’s Voyage

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First Month: Your Move

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The Community File

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The Bus Stop Before Sunrise

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The Timeline with Missing Pages

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The Policy Brief Edit

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The 1898 Citizenship File

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No Blank Check

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The Ratification Printshop

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Who Gave Consent?

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The Confederation Repair Desk

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The Bank and the Clause

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The Two-Chamber Deadline

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The Storm Desk

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Two Rules, One Conflict

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Three Questions Before a Ruling

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Three Desks, One Law

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No Signature Stands Alone

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The Bridge Is Open. Can Everyone Reach It?

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The Complaint in the Wrong Inbox

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The Last Hundred Thousand

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The Coalition Desk

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Two Headlines, One Record

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Rights Beyond the Ruling

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After the Victory

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The Relay Desk

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A Message at the Crossroads

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The Court and the Workshop

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Three Courts, Different Choices

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Two Cities, Two Archives

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The Tribute Ledger and the Market

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The Town Petition

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Dispatches from a Contested Sea

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The Town Records Have Gaps

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The Commission Desk

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The Workshop’s Unfinished Labels

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The Print Shop’s Competing Claims

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The Crown’s Property Files

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A Map of Changing Authority

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Restore the People to the Record

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The Factory Inspection Notebook

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The Charter Review Table

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The Observatory Notebook

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The Revolution Newsroom

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The Freedom Dispatch

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The Independence Dispatch Network

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The Map Needs an Audit

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The Railway Claim and the Missing Testimony

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The Cause Files of 1857

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The Cable Desk in 1900

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The July Crisis Desk

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The Peace Table’s Unfinished Work

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Two Endings, Unfinished Work

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The Resolution Workbench

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The Agreement Audit

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Records and Voices

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An Order and Its Consequences

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The Back-Channel File

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One Workshop, Three Requests

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Four Rules for the Same Plot

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Follow the Repair-Shop Dollar

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Four Markets, One Startup

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The Delayed Sensor

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Two Workshops at the Trade Table

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The Border Desk: Three Agreements

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The Saturday Print Shop

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Who Can Buy a Ticket?

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The Market Board Won’t Balance

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Ink Costs Change the Board

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The After-School Rush

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Two Headlines, One Market

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The Price Tag and the Profit Page

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Prices Send a Message

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The Filter-Rule Hearing

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The Trial-Offer File

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The Budget Response Room

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The Interest-Rate Transmission Desk

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Where the Revenue Goes

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Two Medians, One Decision

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The Route-Back Map

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Two Routes to Skilled Work

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The Benefits Claim Check

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Two Aid Letters, One Unpaid Bill

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The Cost-and-Earnings Notebook

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Three Ways Income Arrives

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Two Forms, One Paper Trail

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The Pay-Stub Audit

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The Practice-Return Desk

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What the Return Reconciles

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The Withholding-Instructions Desk

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Payday Is Friday. The Bill Is Thursday.

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The Account That Fits the Routine

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Two Offers, One Laptop

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Three Statements and a Repayment Plan

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A plan with a tradeoff

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Constitutional Casework

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Civics / Government

D2.Civ.4.9-12
Supporting practice

Explain constitutional powers, limits, and their development.

2013 C3 Framework; current download includes the 2017 supplement · Grades 9–12 · 32

Evidence in this task
Students investigate five case files in a shared constitutional archive, pin relevant paraphrases, and revise claims after hearing objections involving vetoes, appointments, petition, reserved powers, and due process.
What it does not show
Choosing support is a foundation for explanation. The game does not ask students to explain a change in constitutional interpretation or investigate a continuing dispute.
A useful next step
Read the relevant full constitutional passage and a documented historical case. Explain the power, its limit, and what the case reveals about how the rule has been interpreted or contested.
Read the source: NCSS · College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework (opens in a new tab)

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Amendments through time

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Civics / Government

D2.His.2.9-12
Supporting practice

Analyze historical change and continuity.

2013 C3 Framework; current download includes the 2017 supplement · Grades 9–12 · 46

Evidence in this task
Students order eight constitutional changes by ratification and consider the difference between a change in legal text and the barriers people continued to face.
What it does not show
The scored task checks sequence. It does not require a sourced explanation of change and continuity across an era.
A useful next step
Choose two amendments and add an official historical source for each. Explain one change in legal protection and one practice or barrier that continued, identifying whose experience the evidence describes.
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Branches in Action

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D2.Civ.1.9-12
Partial coverage

Distinguish institutions’ powers and responsibilities.

2013 C3 Framework; current download includes the 2017 supplement · Grades 9–12 · 32

Evidence in this task
Students route three work files through a federal powers map: a bill with a veto branch, a nomination requiring Senate consent before appointment, and a case requiring the available review steps.
What it does not show
The activity addresses branches of the national government. It does not compare local, state, tribal, national, and international institutions.
A useful next step
Use official sources to compare one federal responsibility with a related responsibility at another level of government. Explain which institution has authority in a concrete example and where that authority stops.
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Bring a local issue to the table

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D2.Civ.11.9-12
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Evaluate government decision procedures and civic purposes.

2013 C3 Framework; current download includes the 2017 supplement · Grades 9–12 · 34

Evidence in this task
Six decisions ask students to identify the responsible institution, distinguish public comment from a budget hearing, improve evidence, consider competing needs, and notice whose views are missing.
What it does not show
Students choose among prepared responses for one fictional town. They do not independently compare procedures across governmental settings or evaluate an actual decision process.
A useful next step
Read two officially described participation procedures, such as a public-comment period and a hearing. Compare their purposes, access requirements, and usefulness for this issue; defend a choice using the published rules.
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A town budget with tradeoffs

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D2.Civ.13.9-12
Supporting practice

Evaluate policy outcomes and consequences.

2013 C3 Framework; current download includes the 2017 supplement · Grades 9–12 · 34

Evidence in this task
Students allocate 100 tokens across five public needs, calculate the model’s results, and consider which priorities a transfer helps or weakens.
What it does not show
The output follows invented formulas. It is not evidence of a real policy’s intended or unintended effects, distribution, or implementation.
A useful next step
Compare two valid plans and identify people who might experience each differently. Then examine a real public budget and one reported outcome, distinguishing the policy’s aims from evidence of what happened.
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Economics

2.H.2
Partial coverage

Explain choices under resource constraints.

National Content Standards in K–12 Economics, third edition, 2025 · High school · 14

Evidence in this task
A fixed total, category minimums, and several targets require students to give up some possible spending when they increase another allocation.
What it does not show
The short model supplies the costs and rules. It does not require students to transfer the reasoning to a personally relevant decision or explain longer-term consequences.
A useful next step
Compare two allocations and name the best alternative forgone. Apply the same reasoning to a fictional student’s education or training options, explaining a financial constraint and a possible longer-term consequence.
Read the source: Council for Economic Education · Economics standards, third edition (opens in a new tab)

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The Exchange Atlas

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World History

D3.3.9-12
Supporting practice

Use multiple sources to test and refine claims.

2013 C3 Framework; current download includes the 2017 supplement · Grades 9–12 · 55

Evidence in this task
Students plan an expedition with cargo and travel constraints, collect evidence at seven stops, and complete five atlas claims about route networks, goods, geography, religious exchange, and inference limits. The evidence draws on UNESCO and museum accounts.
What it does not show
The claims and short evidence selections are supplied. Students do not independently investigate inconsistencies among full sources or revise a claim after comparing them.
A useful next step
Read two linked accounts and annotate what each can establish. Revise an overly broad claim about exchange so it fits both sources, explaining an uncertainty or difference in their scope.
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How the United Nations took shape

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D2.His.1.9-12
Supporting practice

Explain developments through historical context.

2013 C3 Framework; current download includes the 2017 supplement · Grades 9–12 · 46

Evidence in this task
Students order eight developments from 1941 to 1945 and distinguish early principles, negotiations, signing, and the Charter taking effect.
What it does not show
A correct chronology does not explain how wartime circumstances and different participants’ priorities shaped these developments.
A useful next step
Choose two events and use the linked UN history plus a relevant document to explain a wartime condition or disagreement that shaped each. State why sequence alone does not establish causation.
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Declaration Press

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D2.His.1.9-12
Supporting practice

Explain developments through historical context.

2013 C3 Framework; current download includes the 2017 supplement · Grades 9–12 · 46

Evidence in this task
Students assemble printing plates for three editions using paraphrased provisions from the 1776 U.S. Declaration, the 1789 French Declaration, and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They then correct overclaims in a comparison spread.
What it does not show
Identifying a document’s provisions does not explain why they emerged in that setting or how their language related to people’s lived rights.
A useful next step
Compare one passage from two declarations with a source about each setting. Explain a meaningful similarity and difference in purpose, audience, or political circumstances, without assuming the promises were fully implemented.
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Factory reform: Check the evidence

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D2.His.11.9-12
Partial coverage

Judge a source’s usefulness for an inquiry.

2013 C3 Framework; current download includes the 2017 supplement · Grades 9–12 · 48

Evidence in this task
Six decisions distinguish legal requirements from enforcement, examine an inspector’s corroboration, and consider why an 1863 publication cannot directly establish conditions in 1833.
What it does not show
Students evaluate prepared descriptions. The game does not require a complete critique of a source’s creator, place, audience, and purpose for an independently framed question.
A useful next step
Open the linked inspector’s report and later case table. For a focused question about enforcement, explain what each source helps answer, how its date and purpose matter, and what further evidence is needed.
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Plan a trading post’s season

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D2.His.1.9-12
Supporting practice

Explain developments through historical context.

2013 C3 Framework; current download includes the 2017 supplement · Grades 9–12 · 46

Evidence in this task
The source-based debrief asks students to use UNESCO’s Quanzhou account to connect production sites, transport, and institutions with a wider trading region, then distinguish documented evidence from the model’s assumptions.
What it does not show
Identifying these links is a start. Students still need to explain how particular historical circumstances shaped the port’s development; a successful simulation does not supply that explanation.
A useful next step
Use the UNESCO account and another relevant historical source to explain how one production network, route, or institution shaped Quanzhou’s regional connections. Identify the evidence, your inference, and a historical factor absent from the model.
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Economics

2.H.2
Partial coverage

Explain choices under resource constraints.

National Content Standards in K–12 Economics, third edition, 2025 · High school · 14

Evidence in this task
Students divide 100 tokens among supplies, storage, route information, goods, and communication. Linked effects mean a change can help one target while weakening another.
What it does not show
The model demonstrates constrained allocation, but its costs and outcomes are invented. It does not independently establish how historical traders actually made decisions or develop a longer-term economic explanation.
A useful next step
Compare two valid plans and explain the best alternative given up. Then use a documented historical case to test one model assumption and describe what additional information would change the plan.
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Money Mechanics

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Economics

15.M.3
Supporting practice

Interpret CPI as an average price measure.

National Content Standards in K–12 Economics, third edition, 2025 · Middle school benchmark used here for high school review · 52

Evidence in this task
Students distribute ten budget tokens, capture two spending baskets, compare weighted cost increases, and connect the result to the limits of interpreting an average price measure.
What it does not show
The invented three-price experiment illustrates weighting. It does not reproduce the actual CPI calculation or compare dated observations from an official series.
A useful next step
Use two dated observations from the same official CPI series. Calculate and interpret the change, then explain why a particular household could experience a different change in its costs.
Read the source: Council for Economic Education · Economics standards, third edition (opens in a new tab)

Personal Finance

Saving 8-5b
Partial coverage

Show how reinvested interest changes later earnings.

National Standards for Personal Financial Education, 2021 · Grade 8 learning outcome used here for high school review · 22

Evidence in this task
Students choose the calculation showing that a fictional $200 balance at 10% earns more interest in year two when the first year’s interest stays in the account.
What it does not show
Recognizing a supplied two-year calculation is narrower than independently demonstrating the pattern over time.
A useful next step
Build a four-year balance table at a clearly fictional constant rate. Calculate each year’s interest and explain the difference from simple interest, keeping deposits and fees constant.
Read the source: Council for Economic Education and Jump$tart · Personal financial education standards (opens in a new tab)

Personal Finance

Investing 12-6b
Supporting practice

Compare concentrated and diversified investment choices.

National Standards for Personal Financial Education, 2021 · Grade 12 · 29

Evidence in this task
Students run concentrated and spread portfolios through a sector shock, then test a market-wide decline before evaluating a claim that diversification eliminates risk.
What it does not show
The stress-test returns are fictional. The activity does not compare the costs, holdings, or suitability of actual mutual funds and individual stocks.
A useful next step
Compare two fictional portfolios, one broadly diversified and one holding a few companies. Discuss concentration, possible losses, and relevant costs; explain why neither can promise a return.
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The Great Recession in sequence

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Economics

16.H.6
Supporting practice

Distinguish economic contraction and expansion.

National Content Standards in K–12 Economics, third edition, 2025 · High school · 56

Evidence in this task
Students order eight developments and separate a housing-market peak, financial disruptions, policy responses, the recession’s end, and a later unemployment peak.
What it does not show
Event order alone does not demonstrate how aggregate economic activity is measured. Students do not graph or interpret real GDP in the game.
A useful next step
Graph official real GDP data across 2006–2010, then widen the view to a longer period. Explain the recession and expansion in the data and why an official recession end need not mean every household has recovered.
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Second Shift

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Personal Finance

Spending 12-1b
Supporting practice

Build a budget with income and expense estimates.

National Standards for Personal Financial Education, 2021 · Grade 12 · 18

Evidence in this task
Students manage nine days of a fictional repair shop, allocating cash to parts, equipment, loan principal, and rent while choosing jobs and prices. Twelve record checks distinguish assets, liabilities, income, and expenses.
What it does not show
The workshop models recurring rent and variable parts costs, but it is a short business model rather than a complete household budget. Taxes, depreciation, and loan interest are omitted.
A useful next step
Use a fictional household’s records to build a monthly budget, separating recurring costs from variable estimates. Keep asset values and outstanding balances outside the income total, and explain any assumptions.
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Before you borrow

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Personal Finance

Credit 12-1b
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Compare borrowing costs across different terms.

National Standards for Personal Financial Education, 2021 · Grade 12 · 34

Evidence in this task
Six decisions require students to calculate a purchase gap, compare payment totals, incorporate a fee, consider monthly affordability and alternatives, and preserve an emergency reserve.
What it does not show
The activity uses $500 offers with supplied payment schedules. The published outcome calls for a $1,000 comparison with different rates and fees; the game does not calculate APR or analyze a full contract.
A useful next step
Give students two complete hypothetical offers for the same $1,000 principal, with stated rates, payment schedules, and fees. Compare total borrowing cost and monthly affordability, and identify terms the comparison still needs.
Read the source: Council for Economic Education and Jump$tart · Personal financial education standards (opens in a new tab)

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Build a first-month budget

Personal Finance

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Personal Finance

Spending 12-1b
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Build a budget with income and expense estimates.

National Standards for Personal Financial Education, 2021 · Grade 12 · 18

Evidence in this task
Students allocate a fictional $2,400 take-home income across essential costs, savings, debt payments, and personal choices while respecting minimums and testing four priorities.
What it does not show
The simulation supplies categories and allowed amounts. It does not ask students to research or estimate their own fixed and variable expenses or manage the timing of payments.
A useful next step
Build a separate fictional household budget with justified estimates for one fixed and two variable costs. Label the sources or assumptions, then revise the plan when an unexpected expense or a delayed paycheck occurs.
Read the source: Council for Economic Education and Jump$tart · Personal financial education standards (opens in a new tab)

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Who can stop a bill?

Civics / Government

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Civics / Government

D2.Civ.4.9-12
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Explain constitutional powers, limits, and their development.

2013 C3 Framework; current download includes the 2017 supplement · Grades 9–12 · 32

Evidence in this task
Students apply the two-thirds requirement in both chambers to a fictional veto case, explain each branch’s check, and revise a claim that the president always has the final say.
What it does not show
The written explanation covers one constitutional process. It does not examine historical changes in interpretation or a continuing constitutional dispute.
A useful next step
Add a documented veto or override case. Use Article I, Section 7 and a source about the case to explain both the formal rule and an argument about its use or limits.
Read the source: NCSS · College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework (opens in a new tab)

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New technology. What stayed?

World History

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World History

D2.His.2.9-12
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Analyze historical change and continuity.

2013 C3 Framework; current download includes the 2017 supplement · Grades 9–12 · 46

Evidence in this task
Students explain movable-type production alongside continuing hand decoration in one Gutenberg Bible, challenge a population-wide literacy claim, and write a bounded museum label.
What it does not show
This is analysis of one object. It does not establish an era-wide pattern, changes in readership, or the history of printing in other regions.
A useful next step
Compare the linked Bible with a documented earlier manuscript and a later printed object. Use the three sources to explain a change and a continuity, keeping the claim within their dates, places, and evidence.
Read the source: NCSS · College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework (opens in a new tab)

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A rule reveals a problem

World History

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World History

D2.His.11.9-12
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Judge a source’s usefulness for an inquiry.

2013 C3 Framework; current download includes the 2017 supplement · Grades 9–12 · 48

Evidence in this task
Students infer concerns from an English labor law’s stated aims, distinguish intention from actual effects, and propose another source that could help investigate enforcement or wages.
What it does not show
The sample uses a brief archive paraphrase. Students do not yet inspect the full law, assess all of its source attributes, or compare actual wage and enforcement records.
A useful next step
Compare the law’s purpose with a wage account, contract, or court record from the relevant time and place. Explain what each source can reveal about effects and whose experience remains uncertain.
Read the source: NCSS · College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework (opens in a new tab)

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