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Activity
Education Outside

Rooftop Garden: Soils Experiment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Young scientists conduct a series of experiments to determine what type of soils produce the best results in roof-top gardens.
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Worksheet
Avi Writer

Hard Gold: Teaching Guide

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Designed for Hard Gold, a novel in Avi's I Witness series, this teaching guide includes a summary of the story and information about the writer as well as chapter-by-chapter vocabulary lists, text-based reading questions, activities,...
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Assessment
DECA

Sample Exam: Personal Financial Literacy

For Students 11th - 12th
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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Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment

Managing Influences and Making Decisions

For Teachers 9th Standards
Does patience help people become more responsible? Class members explore the topic with a What's It To Do With Me? quiz to assess their personal responsibilities. They engage in a whole-class discussion about pros and cons of instant...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Chapter 10

For Teachers 5th - 10th
In this Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry comprehension check worksheet, young scholars respond to 20 short answer questions pertaining to chapter 10 of the Mildred D. Taylor novel to better understand the novel and the author's craft.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Reality Math: Fact or Fiction"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the use of math in everyday life. They investigate several occupations and pay scales. They complete spreadsheets that show how monthly bills can be organized using technology. They use word processing software to...
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PPT
Curated OER

What's a Good Job?

For Teachers 12th
Upper graders almost always stress about life after high school. To ease the transition to adult life, discuss how to select a job to meet personal needs. Two writing prompts are included to help learners consider what they'd like to do...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Great American Bank Robbery

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine the economic crisis of 2008. In this banking bailout lesson plan, students read the provided articles "Nicole Bradbury: Robo-Signer Victim," and  "Bankers' Sloppy and Illegal Work." Students respond to the provided...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making a Circle Graph of a Sample Budget

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine a sample budget and categorize the entries as a group. Then in small groups they convert budget category totals to percents and degrees to make a circle graph related to a sample budget.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

A Trillion Here...A Trillion There

For Students 6th - 8th
In this working with large numbers worksheet, students are given the finance statistics for the US and the world for the 2006-2007 year. Students solve 11 problems including finding averages and percentages for the given statistics and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

'Free' Credit Reports Sometimes Aren't Free

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of credit. In this credit instructional activity, students read an article about 'free' credit reports. Students research the three on-line credit bureaus. Students discuss ways to obtain good credit and ways...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Can Entrepreneurs Control Costs?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the fixed and variable costs that entrepreneurs face. They examine how entrepreneurs identify and control their costs in order to make a profit by completing a number of included activities.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Little Island

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students engage in a lesson which features a video trip to the Caribbean Island of Montserrat to teach about the human and physical characteristics of place and human/environmental interactions between the two. Students create their own...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Democracy Sense

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars define democracy and distinguish representative from direct or pure democracy. Then, with the focus on representative government, students will discuss and trace voting patterns in the United States.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Is London Bridge Really Going to Fall Down?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students discover what forces work together to hold up a suspension bridge. They see various bridges around the world, and learn the basic principles that enable each bridge to support itself. Groups design their own bridge, testing how...
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Curated OER

Poetry In the World Around Us

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners engage in a lesson which is designed as a literacy connection to science lessons on the effects of water on plants. This lesson uses an excellent Reading Rainbow episode on the effect of drought, and then rainfall, have on the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Picky Pyramid

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students learn the food pyramid and compare their meals with suggested guidelines. Students graph their lunches, discuss the results and how their choices affect their level of energy.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Follow The Road to Riches

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the various events occurring at the time of the Gold Rush. They see archival photographs and hear historians talk about this era. They create a time line in order to facilitate thinking about this region during the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Underground Vault Protects World's Seeds

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students share ideas about keeping things safe, then read a news article about a huge vault built to store billions of seeds. For this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and vocabulary activity,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Can Entrepreneurs Control Costs?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students calculate fixed and variable costs. In this costs lesson, students read a case study about an entrepreneur and her business costs. Individuals complete the provided worksheets to find costs and make related business decisions....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Real Monopoly: America's Racial Wealth Divide

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore America's racial wealth divide. In this Teaching Tolerance lesson, students play a "rigger" version of the game Monopoly and reflect on the game and economic injustice in the United States.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Agricultural Hard Times And The Great Depression 1920 - 1930, Screen 5 and 6

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars study the interaction between the inhabitants of the state of Utah and its geographic features. In this Utah geography instructional activity, students determine how the geographic feature of Utah affected it settlement,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Handling Data: Probability, Chase Me game

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students participate in a simulation in which the aim is for the tortoise to catch up with the hare or vice versa. Moves are decided by throwing two dice. Adding together the numbers on the two dice tells you which animal moves one...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Little House in the Census: Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students view copies of the 1880 and 1900 censuses and then create and conduct their own census of their homes, comparing all three.

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