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- 9th - 12th
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Students recognize ethical and censorship issues involving the printed media practice ethical decision-making using the newspaper as a learning tool. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students research an assigned animal on the Internet and determine if their assigned animal is a producer, a consumer, or a decomposer. They type a one page report on their assigned animal citing online references, edit their work, and proofread another student's work. The students construct a food chain on the bulletin board using pictures they draw or pint out. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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In this unit of lessons, students examine land quality issues. They discover food chains and practice reading them. They also examine the erosion of soil and how it affects the environment. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students examine which products are included in Fairtrade schemes. They design a leaflet that teaches consumers and producers about fair trade issues. 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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- 3rd - 12th
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Students compare prices of good across the century in order to introduce the topic of inflation. They undertand the concepts of inflation and Consumer Price Index (CPI), use online calculators to figure the approximate cost of goods across the years, and create a graph or table to illustrate data. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore the concept of a consumer boycott and potential results that boycotts may bring. Then, in groups, they examine boycotts from multiple perspectives. They create posters illustrating their research. Full Review »
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- 8th - 11th
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Students explore the possibility that a products name might bias a consumers decision to buy a particular product. The question remains to be answered, "Why do consumers buy what they buy and why that particular product?" Full Review »
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- 6th - 10th
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Students, while engaged in a group discussion, collaborate a mini-project on environmental issues at home and/or in the classroom as well as incorporating environmentally related words and expressions within their daily diary writing skills. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are told that consumer credit is a way of using future income to buy the goods and services discuss they want today. They discuss how consumer credit can be obtained from a variety of sources including banks, credit unions, finance companies, many retailers, and service providers such as utility companies and physicians. Full Review »
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