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- 9th - 12th
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Students participate in a project showing them what is meant by the value of a currency, use the Internet to find currency exchange rates, and relate the stability of a country's currency with other factors such as standard of living. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students read the novel On the Way Home, and analyze the trip of the Wilder family as the move from the Dakota's to Missouri. They map the journey taken and discuss the types of transportation available at the time. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students read information about the economic impacts of acid rain using an online website. They prepare and present a news story about the economic and social consequences of acid rain. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students listen to a guesst speaker discuss credit, and what lenders look for when approving loans. They investigate savings and loans, banks, credit unions and finance companies to find out what A.P.R. they charge for certain items. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students discuss supply, demand, scarcity, and opportunity costs and how these may affect business decisions in this Economics lesson for an upper-level High School class. The lesson includes possible cross-curricular extensions. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students are introduced to the study of economics, including an introduction to basic business types and systems. They investigate about international, national and California history as they take a historical tour of cooperatives and how they have evolved into the business structures that exist today. Students open a business of their own choosing and experience the business world first-hand as classmates act as consumers. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students practice preparing various nutritional foods in the small group setting in this Home Economics lesson for the High School classroom. Emphasis is placed on goal-setting techniques, the creation of nutritious foods, and small, cooperative learning groups. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students discover the basics of baking techniques in this Home Economics and Nutrition lesson for the High School classroom. Emphasis is placed upon the use of various types of flour products, yeasts, gluten, and quick bread products. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students comprehend what is meant by Cultural Evolution and that it primarily applies at Human Evolution, but that there are examples in higher mammals such as a killer whales, dolphins and great apes of particular groups by exploring from their elders special ways to adapt to their environment. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students identify and describe the history of home economics and how that history shaped and defined the role of women. Then they explore the home economics manuals and home economic articles which are available online at Hearth: Home Economics Archive. Students also share with the class items that surprised them why these items surprised them and also what they say about the role of women at that time. Full Review »
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