Virginia Department of Education
Sales Tax and Tip
Don't forget to tip your server. Future consumers learn how to calculate sales taxes and tips. Pairs use actual restaurant menus to create an order and determine the total bill, including taxes and tips.
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Your Tax Dollars at Work
In order to understand how tax dollars are spent, young economists use given data and graph it on a circle graph. Circle graphs are highly visual and can help individuals describe data. A class discussion follows the initial activity.
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Good News and Bad News: Income and Taxes
Students examine Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 1040, citing particular line items that are pertinent to an artist acting as an entrepreneur. They explore various sources of income and the importance of keeping accurate income records.
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Module 10-Refund, Amount Due, and Record Keeping
Students explore to comprehend refunds, amounts due, and record keeping requirements. They define a refund and explain how refunds are received. Students define an amount due and explain how payments are made.
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7th Grade Math Common Core Checklist
With so many math standards to fit into a school year, it can be difficult keeping track of what you have and have not covered. This collection of Common Core checklists allows you to maintain a running record of when each standard was...
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Your First Job
High schoolers determine that they are responsible for paying income taxes through withholdings on earned income. They examine the Form W-4.
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Accounting -- Preparing Payroll Records
Students review preparation of payroll records and practice these skills while playing games on the computer. They follow a student outline and complete online activities and quiz.
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A Medieval Mystery: Can you decode the dark secrets of this cartoon?
Students discover coding in medieval cartoons. For this medieval mystery lesson, students view cartoons from history to see if they can identify the clues or solve the mystery.
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Jazz in America Lesson Plan 7
The student will explore free jazz, fusion, and contemporary jazz. They will listen to avant garde, fusion, and pop recordings. In addition, they participate in a class discussion regarding jazz's contribution to and reflection of...
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Prairie Voices: Community Development, Investigating Local History
Students investigate local history. In this research skills lesson, students examine historic landmarks, tax records, fire maps, town plans, historic photographs, newspapers, and other primary sources to learn about local communities in...
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Bossy Britain Upsets Colonists
Young scholars examine the causes of dissatisfaction that led to the American Revolution. Then they make a Flap Vocabulary Book and glue on a map of the thirteen colonies and make a title page called "Road to War in it." Students also...
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False Positives
The test may say you have cancer, but sometimes the test is wrong. The provided task asks learners to analyze cancer statistics for a fictitious town. Given the rate of false positives, they interpret the meaning of this value in the...
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Bookkeeping 101
Students state the important questions that must be answered through the use of expense records. They design and test a method for recording business expenses.
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The Artist as Entrepreneur: Do I Get a Job or Make a Job?
Students discover the differences in being an entrepreneurial artist and an employed artist. They explore the tax codes, copyright laws and fringe benefits of being an employee versus an independent contractor.
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Breaking News English: Wall Street Pays Record Bonuses
In this English worksheet, learners read "Wall Street Pays Record Bonuses," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Breaking News English: World Population Aging At Record Rate
In this English worksheet, students read "World Population Aging At Record Rate," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Colonial America: Causes of the American Revolution
Fourth graders analyze colonial rule and policies with regard to the causes of the American Revolution. In this Colonial America simulation lesson plan, 4th graders role play in an Independence Game, reacting to a variety of "events"...
It's About Time
Oil and Gas Production
Would you consider a power failure a current event? This lesson uses multiple experiments, guided inquiry activities, and group discussions to cover the topics of oil and gas production. This is the seventh lesson in a series of eight.
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Electricity and Your Community
Young scientists read and interpret a data table about energy generation around the world. Next, they use the Internet to investigate energy generation in their own state, and, finally, pupils read a passage and answer questions about it.
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When the Power Goes Off, Business Goes On
Students participate in a scenario that involves a business with play money and a calculator. They take turns being customers and sales clerks during their simulations. This exercise assess basic math computations involved in cash...
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The Taxpayer's Rights
Students examine rights of taxpayers and procedures the IRS uses to process tax returns
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Budget Finances
Students role play the role of a recent graduate of high school living on their own. Using play money, they are given one month's salary and they discover they own their own house or apartment and owe money on a car loan. They develop...
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Family Letter and Activity: Cars, Trucks and Percents
In this math worksheet, students will take home a letter to their parents explaining that they are studying Chapter 10: Ratio, Proportion and Percent. Then students will complete a homework activity in which they ask family and friends...
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Discount
Seventh graders calculate the sale price when given the regular price and percent discount as well as calculate the percent discount when given the regular price and sale price. They find the total cost of a CD if the price is $19.99 and...