Federal Reserve Bank
What Do Financial Market Indicators Tell Us?
Explain the four categories of financial indicators (commodity prices, stock indexes, interest rates, and yield spreads), and help your class members understand how changes in this data can affect decisions regarding consumer spending,...
Curated OER
Sediment Sleuths
Are you looking for a good, solid lesson on sedimentary rocks? This one, produced by the Illinois State Museum, is just such a lesson. Middle schoolers identify common rocks and minerals by analyzing sediments from local water sources....
Florida Center for Reading Research
Fluency: Phrases, Fleeting Phrases
An activity boosts readers' fluency in reading common phrases and idioms. Peers time one another and track their progress using phrase cards and record sheets.
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George Grenville’s Speech in the House of Commons,January 14, 1766
In this Stamp Act worksheet, students read and discuss an excerpt of the speech delivered by George Grenville to the House of Commons in defense of the act.
California Academy of Science
Fish Forms
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, you can add art to any lesson! While little learners are discovering why fish have specific body parts such as, scales, fins, and gills, they start making three-dimensional fish forms. Children...
Curated OER
What are the Indices of Investing?
Students learn the benchmarks that measure the ups and downs of the stock market. They also explore how to set up a diversified portfolio and trade stock indices for the Global Stock Game (GSG).
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On the Track With NASCAR
Students complete a variety of activities to research stock car racing. They use the Internet to research NASCAR acronyms, schedules, results, car design and other aspects.
Curated OER
Meaning of Suffixes
One slide explains when to use different suffixes when naming chemical compounds. Another slide gives the stock system names of common compounds consisting of two non-metals. These would be useful to display when you are teaching your...
Curated OER
Teamwork and Productivity Building a Better "What's It"
Students follow directions and detailed specifications to create a product. They work as part of a team on a common goal/projections and calculate profit (loss) and compute fractions
Curated OER
Flour Beetle
Learners observe the life cycle of the common flour beetle and make observations of its life stages. They also design and implement an investigation on food preference for the beetle and record data over a period of several months....
Curated OER
Identify And Classify
In this consumer awareness worksheet, students learn that hazardous household products have words that identify the risk. Students view 54 photos of common household substances. Students sort them into piles according to the hazard risk.
Curated OER
Idioms Quiz: Money 2
In this online idiom quiz worksheet, students analyze the given idioms in the sentences. Students select the correct meaning in the 10 exercises.
Curated OER
7.RP Music Companies, Variation 1
We've got the beat! And your musically-minded mathematicians will tap their toes as they determine which music company would be getting a better deal based on their offers to buy out TunesTown. The topic is extended in an additional task...
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7.RP Music Companies, Variation 2
Real-world multiple-step proportion problems are sometimes hard to find for your math class. Here is one designed specifically to meet that need. Learners use proportional relationships to determine price per share in the acquisition of...
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Social Studies and Economics
Students investigate the products agriculture provides in raw materials. In this agriculture products lesson, students make a list of common items used and foods eaten. Students work in teams to categorize agriculture products based on...
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Ingredients of a Mystery
Students explore the concept of mysteries. In this mystery genre lesson, students identify the common characteristics of mystery books and use a story map to identify these characteristics in a given book. Students also discover the...
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Fabrics and Polymers
Learners explore natural resources by reading a science story in class. In this fibers lesson, students identify and discuss the differences between fibers such as wool, silk, rayon, linen and cotton. Learners identify the common uses of...
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Sight Word Fluency Lists 16 to 30
Record keeping and data is essential to tracking scholar growth. Educators record pupil mastery of sight word recognition on nine pre-made sheets. Teachers and parents easily view data, progress, and word mastery.
Practical Money Skills
Saving and Investing
You have to have money to make money, especially in the world of banking and investments. High schoolers learn about interest rates, saving and investment options, and ways to stay aware of their money's security and earning ability with...
National Park Service
Fitting In
Birds help other birds find food? Scholars are placed into one of five groups of different birds. Each group then "feeds" on letters of paper in a field and gather five pieces per person. As each group plays, more food is exposed,...
Science Matters
A Model of Plate Faults
The San Andreas fault is one of the longest fault zones in the world. In a series of 20 lessons, the fourth lesson has pupils use a paper model to recreate various types of plate faults. Each is held in position then drawn into a science...
California Education Partners
Yum Yum Cereal
Design an efficient cereal box. Scholars use set volume criteria to design a cereal box by applying their knowledge of surface area to determine the cost to create the box. They then determine whether their designs will fit on shelves,...
CCSS Math Activities
Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 7th Grade Math – Claim 4
Build the model right out of the box. A few sample items show teachers how Smarter Balanced assessments may approach Claim 4, modeling and data analysis. Pupils use their skills to create equations or expressions to model the situation...
Southern Poverty Law Center
Evaluating Reliable Sources
A lesson plan instills the importance of locating reliable sources. Scholars are challenged to locate digital sources, analyze their reliability, search for any bias, and identify frequently found problems that make a source unusable.