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- 4th - 6th
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Students examine how family members can conserve resources while meeting their needs and wants. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students identify the differences between natural resources, human capital and equipment and how they relate to the production of a good or service. They discover the path that a piece of clothing follows and what trade policies bring it to the United States. They use maps to locate any areas they are unfamiliar with. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the role of scarcity and how to allocate resources. They describe examples of opportunity costs and tradeoffs. They choose a service project based on a cost and benefits analysis. They finally evaluate the impact of the service and how it serves the community. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students examine how an apple is sliced and discuss how the Earth is like the apple, in which its resources are limited. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine their own human resources and compare them to the characteristics that entrepreneurs tend to exhibit. They discuss ways to further develop these characteristics. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students participate in an Elders as Resources project. In groups, they work with their elders of the community to exchange viewpoints in which they can discover aspects about each other previously unknown. They also examine the case in which many generations live under the same roof. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students build knowledge about natural resources and their conservation. They work in small groups to create in informational poster or other visual presentation. The lesson includes a planning sheet that will assist students in locating required materials and staying focussed during their research. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students brainstorm and discuss ways in which peers, parents, schools, and the media influence teenagers' decisions and behaviors regarding sex and pregnancy prevention. They view and discuss the teen pregnancy segment of To the Contrary. Students read survey results about parents and teen pregnancy prevention, and discuss their opinions of these results. They create posters or brochures to educate parents about the role they can play in preventing teen pregnancy. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students explore natural, human, and capital resources. They observe videos of factory workers producing goods, create songs about resources, and take digital pictures of the different types of resources. In groups, students simulate the role of human, capital and natural resources and write a play or puppet show about them. Full Review »
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- 8th - 12th
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Students brainstorm on topics of personal interests that relate to social issues and take a consensus to narrow down the topics to one that the group can agree upon. They then utilize a wide range of telecommunication resources to research their topics of choice. Full Review »
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