Japan Society
The Bubble Economy and the Lost Decade
Explore Japanese society and national identity. Class members share ideas about the Japanese economy and then investigate a series of resources, including an article, a film, a lecture, and a poem, to learn about Japan's Bubble Economy...
Curated OER
Introduction to the Great Depression
Eleventh graders participate in a discussion on the causes and economic events of the 1929 stock market crash. In this stock market lesson plan, 11th graders use this as an introduction to the Great Depression.
Curated OER
Engineering Application: What Can I Build On?
Students explore how earthquakes cause structures to move and how the substrate beneath them may actually cause them to fail. They create mock buildings and place them in level tubs of various substrates. They then put each through a...