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Restaurant math
Sixth graders use Microsoft Publisher program to create a restaurant menu. Using that menu, other students will use estimation skills to decide on multiple combinations of meals they could make with the money they are given.
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Consumerism
Students examine the techniques that companies use to sell their products. In this consumerism lesson students create an ad for a company and create a handcrafted butterfly.
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Physical Education: Mission Possible
Students participate in a physical education activity, Mission Possible, where they attempt to steal a jug of jewels. They must successfully overcome five challenge areas to complete the activity. Students develop cooperative...
College Board
2006 AP® Psychology Free-Response Questions
A person wants to buy a car but is having a hard time making a decision. What is getting in the way? Learners turn to psychology to explain what is driving the ambivalence using materials from College Board. A second query asks scholars...
Great Schools
Letter of Complaint
If you've ever received bad service or disagreed with a company's decision, writing a letter of complaint might be a good skill to have. Review the format of a letter, author's purpose, and other aspects of persuasive writing with an...
DECA
Sample Exam: Personal Financial Literacy
Looking for a way to assess pupils' personal financial literacy? A 100-question, multiple-choice exam provides a good understanding of what class members already know and need to know about personal finance.
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STAR Deputies
Second graders engage in a lesson plan that is about the sharing of following rules to follow the law. They concentrate on the making of safe choices. Students use the examples to have class discussion. They also role play scenarios of...
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Utah Challenge
In this Utah worksheet, students explore the state of Utah. Students answer ten multiple choice questions testing their comprehension of facts about the state of Utah.
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Statistics and Shopping
Pupils explore the concept of using consumer data and statistics to aid in the consumer decision making process. For this consumer data and statistics lesson, students research consumer data and statistics. Pupils analyze the data to...
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Economics
Students discover the resources that are available for consumer protection. In a database, they are responsible for entering two new vocabulary words each semester along with a sentence using the word. In groups, they create a...
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Am I Balanced? and My Energy Balance Goal
A two page worksheet. The first worksheet - Am I Balanced - has young learners drawing or writing on a plate what they ate. Then they write their day's activities on a shoe. A nice way to look at energy in and energy out for one day. The...
Classroom Law Project
Should we believe everything we read? Becoming a discerning consumer of media
Class members investigate the role media should play in a healthy democracy. As part of this study, groups analyze political advertising, use FactCheck to assess not only the veracity of but the persuasions techniques used in candidates'...
Statistics Education Web
Text Messaging is Time Consuming! What Gives?
The more you text, the less you study. Have classes test this hypothesis or another question related to text messages. Using real data, learners use technology to create a scatter plot and calculate a regression line. They create a dot...
Radford University
Let's Buy a Car
Ready to buy a car? Learners research different makes and models of cars to decide on the best one to buy. They collect data on cost, fuel efficiency, safety ratings, and insurance costs, then create and analyze data displays to make...
EngageNY
Building Background Knowledge: What IS the Omnivore’s Dilemma Anyway?
What's the best thing on the menu? Scholars enter the room, complete a gallery walk of menus to choose a food to pretend to order, and then discuss how they made the decision. Next, they read The Omnivore's Dilemma and relate their...
Nemours KidsHealth
School Lunch: Grades 3-5
Two lessons encourage scholars to make smart food choices. Lesson one challenges participants to create a five-day meal plan. In instructional activity two, learners pack an imaginary lunch, drawing pictures on a printable lunch bag...
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Lemonade Stand
Students plan a lemonade stand to compete with another stand and examine their decisions from the consumer and producer's point of view. They discuss the law of supply and demand, plan for their lemonade stand, and write an essay...
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Needs and Wants
Students demonstrate responsible consumer choices. In this social studies lesson plan, students read The Lorax and discuss wants and needs. Students discuss how to save natural resources by making informed consumer choices.
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Potato Ways
Pupils analyze the packaging process. In this consumer awareness lesson, students analyze the process of packaging a potato and identify positive and negative ways of packaging. Pupils study statistics on an overhead transparency to...
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Serial Forms/Material Difference
Learners analyze pop art and discuss artists' choices for materials, line, color, and scale. In this art analysis lesson, students consider artists' choices and compare works. Learners make a two or three dimensional work of art using...
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Buying, Selling, Profits
High schoolers follow the framework of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA). In this FCCLA lesson plan, students research the clothing market from the perspectives of consumers and business owners. High schoolers...
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Who Is Eating Whom?
Students discuss the food chain and identify if various organisms are producers or consumers. They draw ten types of organisms and construct a food web of these organisms, labelling each as a producer or consumer.
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The Big Mo
Young scholars develop media literacy and critical thinking skills to analyze trends and determine the extent to which their decisions may be influenced by manipulation. They examine the mathematics of trends and write about a time they...
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Time, Talent, Treasure and Economics
Young scholars work cooperatively to create a quilt. They choose a pattern and determine the specific skills and steps needed to produce that quilt. Labor is divided equally between group members and a quilt is created assembly line...
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