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For this assignment I went to Sheldon High School in Mrs. Alderman's class for economics. What I had to do was besides observe and sit in the back of the classroom, (which would have been fine with me) I actually participated in the class activities. On a side note I attended school at Sheldon high school and one of my favorite teachers was Mrs. Alderman and that's why I chose to come back to Sheldon and do my service learning hours with her class.
But anyways back to the activities I participated in, first was the apple experiment. The purpose of this experiment was to teach the students how the market can go up and down depending on the prices of the items being bought and sold. She had the class separate into to groups, buyers and sellers. Each student was then given an apple with the word buyer or seller with a price on in saying try not to sell for less than this or not to buy for more than that. The prices ranged from five-dollars all the way up to one-hundred. You wanted to......

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