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Kiddie Matters: Best Guide for Teaching Kids the Decision Making Process Steps
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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Psychology Today: Parenting: Decision Making
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Of One Mind: Consensus Based Decision Making: Lesson 2
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."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Non Rational Factors in Decision Making: Lesson 2
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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Barry County Ysb: How to Teach Decision Making Skills to Adolescents [Pdf]
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...
Free Management Library
Free Management Library: Basic Guidelines to Problem Solving and Decision Making
Introduces problem-solving, suggesting that the word "opportunity" replace the word "problem." Describes the 7 steps in the process. Includes other links.
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Economic Choices
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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The Math Center: Advice for Factoring Polynomials
This is a general resource on how to factor any polynomial. It reads like a flow chart on the decision-making process. Contains information about factoring polynomials with two, three, or four terms.
Mind Tools
Pmi Weighing the Pros and Cons of a Decision
Defines and explains the PMI Decision Making System, which improves upon the weighing pros and cons method to make a decision.
FNO Press
Fno.org: Develop a Family Decision Making Council
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.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Lessons: Little Star's Problem
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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E Rulemaking Program: Let Your Voice Be Heard
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.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Barriers to Critical Thinking: Errors in Judgment
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
Reviews the various theories on how people make decisions. There is a focus on the process in adolescents.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Multiple Choice: Using the Process of Elimination
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Decisions Within a Budget Constraint
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Making Decisions
Notes and a video clip provide students with an introduction to the idea of marginal analysis and of how consumers and producers make decisions.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Are the Best Things in Life Free?
Students use economic reasoning to analyze the costs and consequences of choice. The idea that the best things in life are free is widely expressed as a maxim by people who know nothing of its origin. They know it's true through...
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The Consumerist
The Consumerist, a subsidiary of Consumer Reports, accepts tips from consumers to cover stories people want to hear or should become aware of based on consumers interests.
University of Missouri
University of Missouri St. Louis:wise Pockets: Kermit the Hermit
This is an elementary level lesson that deals with spending, saving, income, and interest. Requires the book Kermit the Hermit by Bill Peet. Includes detailed lesson plan along with procedures and activities.
iCivics
I Civics: Appellate Courts: You Be the Judge (Simulation)
In this judicial conference simulation, students learn the path of a Supreme Court case from writ of certiorari to majority opinion and what justices do along the way.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Whose Land Is This? [Pdf]
A lesson plan, with printable activity sheets, from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US." Designed to help learners examine the anti-immigrant sentiment that led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and...
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New Internationalist: Making Decisions
From a 1984 article published in the New Internationalists, "Slow Train to Patna," the author describes a train journey in Bihar, India, where passengers explore the world of community action.
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Dover Adult Learning Center: Pick Your Candidate [Pdf]
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,...