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- Grade Range
- 8th - Higher Ed
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Students compare and contrast features of contraceptives prior to sexual activity. Students work in groups to research the attributes of various contraceptives according to their effectiveness, cost, convenience, side effects, reversibility and acceptance. Students discuss their ideal contraceptive. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students explore the emerging budget flight industry and the resulting increased competition among airlines. They compare a budget airline with a legacy carrier in terms of cost, corporate profile, flight statistics, amenities, and convenience. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students compare the experience of hauling one's own water, as described in Robert Frost's poem "Going for Water," to the modern convenience of electric plumbing. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students define population, draw convenience sample from the population, draw quota sample from the population, and draw random probability sample from the population. They explain why a random probability sample usually gives more accurate results, explain a famous example of a convenience sample that failed, and explain a famous example of a quota sample that failed. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students study how life in the past is similar and different from life in the present. They will research one invention or modern convenience, which is used today to make our lives easier. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 9th
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Students indentify and differentiate between transit and surface food systems. Students measure energy that is released by various foods. Students compare and contrast cooking with solar energy on earth and what they might have learned in the lesson about cooking on Mars. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Higher Ed
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Students, while reviewing an extensive list of vocabulary terms on the board, examine various transportation costs, schedules and practices. They brainstorm both economical and convenient ways to go from place to place. In addition, they role play making travel arrangements. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the differences between convenience food and food that has to be prepared in order to use it in another recipe. In groups, they make a calzone using only convenience food. After baking, they work together to make their own nutritional label based on all of the information from the different products. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students use Rhodes frozen dough, a convenience product, to prepare another class of yeast breads as they deep-fat fry the thawed dough and individually prepare Indian Fry Bread Tacos. They apply the principles they have learned in preparing a deep-fat fried food using an alternative. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students experience and analyze how technology is utilized in everyday lives. They explore all the technological advances that have taken place over the past twenty years and how those changes have modernized society and offered a wide variety of modern conveniences. Each student also brainstorms to make a list of all the different types of technology out in society: street lights, microwaves, cell phones, etc. Full Review »

