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- 11th
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Students study photographs as primary sources and create an album based on a thesis statement they develop about leisure time in the 20th century. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students create a museum exhibit, using photos, that illustrates how leisure time pursuits reflected the history of the US from the turn of the century to the 1950s. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students distinguish between work and leisure activities, identify examples of people participating in each of these types of activities, and put them in the correct category. Full Review »
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- 7th - 9th
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Students examine difficult choices that have to be faced when spending taxpayers' money on leisure facilities, by carrying out a simple cost/benefit analysis of some types of public leisure provision. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students explore how the innovations in culture and technology influenced the development of a leisure industry in America at the turn of the twentieth century. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students inquire about the history of enterntainment and flim. The development of the modern industry of entertainment is done from reflecting upon its roots and background. The discussion is leading to answering how Americans have developed methods of spending leisure time. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine reasons for and importance of work, describe how work can satisfy personal needs, and identify personal goals that may be satisfied through a combination of work, community, and family/social roles in this Career-based lesson. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students examine leisure activities in a Spanish-speaking country. Students create a video that includes a weather forecast for four different cities and interviews about what activities people enjoy doing during different seasons. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students write about and discuss personal leisure time activities and record their activities in a slide show format to present to their classmates. They work off a word bank of materials relating to fly-tying and fishing after all other academic work has been completed. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students organize data from the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Is leisure time really shrinking?" into two scatter plots and determine the quadratic model for each scatter plot. They explore the graphs and determine if these graphs intersect. Finally, students identify the concept of extrapolation by expanding the viewing window to find the intersection. Full Review »
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