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Kiddie Matters: Best Guide for Teaching Kids the Decision Making Process Steps

For Teachers K - 1st
Kids have to make a wide range of decisions on a daily basis. It can get overwhelming if kids aren't armed with the right tools to make good decisions. When children learn the decision-making processing steps, they make more responsible...
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Barry County Ysb: How to Teach Decision Making Skills to Adolescents [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A parent guide to a better understanding of the adolescent mind, and the steps to follow in order to help them to make good decisions. The process helps parents develop more trust in their adolescents, and helps teens achieve more...
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Iowa State University

Iowa State University: Group Decision Making Tool Kit

For Students 9th - 10th
Six different techniques briefly stated that can help groups with decision making.
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Psychology Today: Parenting: Decision Making

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Decision making is one of the most important skills your children need to develop to become healthy and mature adults. This article gives tips on raising good decision-makers and reviews the process of decision-making.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Of One Mind: Consensus Based Decision Making: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand the process of consensus-based decision making. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Of One Mind: Consensus-Based Decision Making."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Non Rational Factors in Decision Making: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that decision making is not an entirely rational process and will be able to name some of the factors that influence it. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Non-Rational Factors In...
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Free Management Library

Free Management Library: Basic Guidelines to Problem Solving and Decision Making

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduces problem-solving, suggesting that the word "opportunity" replace the word "problem." Describes the 7 steps in the process. Includes other links.
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C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Economic Choices

For Teachers K - 1st
A learning module on choices people make with their money. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students will learn how families get...
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Virtual Salt

Virtual Salt: Decision Simplification Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Site provides thirteen separate techniques to simplify decision-making processes. Excellent information.
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Mind Tools

Pmi Weighing the Pros and Cons of a Decision

For Students 9th - 10th
Defines and explains the PMI Decision Making System, which improves upon the weighing pros and cons method to make a decision.
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FNO Press

Fno.org: Develop a Family Decision Making Council

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief article introduces PMI as a method of decision making. While the thrust of the article deals with building skills for the information age, the PMI model is an interesting way to go about family decisions.
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E Rulemaking Program: Let Your Voice Be Heard

For Students 9th - 10th
You can make a difference in the federal decision making process. Search by date, category, or government agency and read recent governmental regulations. Assess these regulations firsthand and provide feedback to the people who matter.
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Barriers to Critical Thinking: Errors in Judgment

For Students 9th - 10th
Users of this learning module will explore the Errors in Judgment: Barriers to Critical Thinking and how it affects their decision-making processes.
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National Academies Press: Adolescent Decision Making

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Reviews the various theories on how people make decisions. There is a focus on the process in adolescents.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Multiple Choice: Using the Process of Elimination

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on answering multiple choice questions using the process of elimination. The first step is to understand the question, and then eliminate the choices you know are incorrect. It then provides a list of questions to ask...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Making Decisions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes and a video clip provide students with an introduction to the idea of marginal analysis and of how consumers and producers make decisions.
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Other

Dover Adult Learning Center: Pick Your Candidate [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This document from the Dover Adult Learning Center is a nice resource for any beginners in the political decision-making process. Provides links to material to help decipher ads, candidate speeches, rhetorical tricks, campaign issues,...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Education: Weigh Your Options

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Getting and keeping a job often requires special education or training. While an employer may provide or pay for some additional education or training, workers often have to obtain it on their own. In this instructional activity,...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Opportunity Cost

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Consumers are faced with tough choices because so many innovative and exciting products and services are available. Therefore, engraining a decision-making process that includes considering of opportunity cost is necessary to shape...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Lessons: Little Star's Problem

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that helps student understand the decision-making process and introduces the concept of cost. Students listen to a story and take a short quiz. Includes links to the story and the quiz.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: College: Where Am I Going to Go?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners will use a PACED decision making grid to help them decide where they would like to attend college.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Stakeholder Processes: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand the concept of the stakeholders' process. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Stakeholder Processes."
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Entrepreneurship: Creativity, Innovation, and Invention: How They Differ

For Students 9th - 10th
This resources teaches students how to distinguish between creativity, innovation, and invention, and to explain the difference between pioneering and incremental innovation, and which processes are best suited to each.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Decisions Within a Budget Constraint

For Students 9th - 10th
Another approach to maximizing utility uses indifference curves (sometimes called utility curves) and budget constraints to identify the utility optimizing combination of consumption. Read about this method in this article.