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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students explore the ways that taxes are levied based on taxable income. They analyze how a new series of tax cuts might affect people of different income levels and their tax rates. Full Review »
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- 11th - Higher Ed
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Students explain that during the Great Depression and World War II, the Roosevelt administration implemented new, broader, and more progressive taxes in order to cover the costs of the New Deal programs and the war. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze statistical data found on the Web relevant to the medical records from World War I. After completing a worksheet that is provided, they evaluate the effects of WWI--both short- and long-term. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students explore the different types of taxes that are paid. Determining what the money is used for and the services it may provide forms the basis of the discussion in this lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students examine various aspects of world hunger. They take a pre-test, play a map game, analyze and discuss world hunger statistics, write an essay, complete a graphic organizer, and write a report on an assigned country. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students examine how to calculate tax penalties using decimals while working with a Tax Examiner. They examine a real world application for the use of decimals. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 12th - Higher Ed
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Students utilize supply and demand models to demonstrate how markets can be affected by intervention from governments or other agencies in an attempt to correct a perceived market failure. After viewing a PowerPoint presentation, students complete a mind map and additional activities to research the use of subsidies and taxes to correct market failure. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th
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Students explore the U.S. governmental policy of taxation as a tool to influence the actions of both individuals and businesses. Using the internet, classmates explore types of taxes and the purpose of each. In groups, they complete a T-Chart to compare the positive and negative aspects of taxes. Pupils write an editorial for the local newspaper about the potential effects of a current tax proposal. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explore federal taxation and the controversy that surrounds it. They discuss the relevance of the contemporary federal income tax and evaluate the three sections of Article I in the U.S Constitution. Students explore the history of income tax from the time of the Civil War up to the ratification of the 16th Amendment. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students explore the uses of and considerations in levying taxes. They explore how tax cuts affect income. Students calculate tax rates from taxable incomes. They reflect on how society as a whole is affected by inequalities in the tax system. Full Review »
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