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- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students simulate a buying and selling environment to explore the definitions of goods, producer, consumer, service etc. students can play different roles and demonstrate various economic concepts. Full Review »
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- 4th - 11th
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Students choose a company or industry that existed during WWII and design a poster and slogan which displays the transition from civilian consumer goods to wartime production. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students see what it means to be a smart consumer by engaging in a level-headed analysis of budget, opportunity costs and self-regulation. They compare prices within a service field, and weigh the choices of spending money on that item. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students engage in a lesson that gives them the tools needed to become knowledgeable credit consumers. The companion website for the ITV program TV-411 is used to provide learners with an interactive experience of what credit has to offer. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students often ask, "What would that be worth today?" This question is what this lesson addresses. They define the terms inflation, consumer price, index and "dollar diplomacy". Students then use a website to calculate what the true cost of the Louisiana Purchase would be today. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students study about the discovery of Kennewick Man and what this ancient skeleton suggests about the earliest inhabitants of North America. They examine the controversy surrounding Native American efforts to rebury Kennewick Man in accordance with their traditions and federal law and finally they explore the relationship between science and religion as reflected in their shared concern about human origins. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students use a software program to create a food web. Using the web, they identify the path of energy using arrows and label organisms as either producers or consumers. They show and explain their food web to the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students explain ways consumers and producers are related. Given five scenarios they will identify the relationship between supply and demand. Given a competition scenario, students explain when would be the most opportune time to buy a product at the best price possible and explain their rationale. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students discuss the basic elements of market operations. They evaluate the role of consumers in a market economy. Students demonstrate problem- solving techniques. They review characteristics of a market economy. Students review and discuss consumer sovereignity. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the many considerations of making advantageous consumer purchases. They know that making these good choices requires attention to not only the purchase price but the financing, warranties, energy usage and more. Full Review »
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