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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Incentives Influence Us

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Find out more about the concept of incentives in our economy through this lesson plan. "You will identify incentives used at home and school."
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University of Nebraska Omaha

University of Omaha: Lesson Plan: Why Do I Want All This Stuff? [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan addresses consumer demand and advertising. Indicated for grades 3 through 5.
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University of Nebraska Omaha

Ec Ed Web: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This lesson plan is cross-curricular, economics and literature. Using the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," students will understand cause and effect and unlimited want, goods and services.
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University of Nebraska Omaha

An Economics and Literature Lesson: The Goat in the Rug

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This is a lesson plan geared toward first through third grades, cross-curricular, dealing with economics and literature. "Learn about economics: producers, resources (natural, human, capital), intermediate goods; and Language Arts:...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Bio Build Up

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This activity allows students to make a simple model food chain and observe how toxic chemicals can become concentrated in the bodies of consumers at the top of the chain.
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Can It?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pop artists used consumer products, advertising, and popular culture icons as the major source for subject matter in their art. Between 1962 and 1967, Andy Warhol painted soup cans, both individually and in groups. 100 Cans is one of the...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Helen Murray Free

For Students 3rd - 8th
Biography of Helen Free, detailing her life as a chemist and inventor who developed many products for consumer use, including a convenient at-home glocose level test.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: A Paste With Taste

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this activity, students learn about the ingredients in toothpaste and develop a recipe for a new toothpaste, for which they must also create a slogan and an ad for marketing their product to consumers.
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Organization for Community Networks

Academy Curricular Exchange: Supply and Demand

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan has students learning how markets fluctuate due to both consumers and suppliers.
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Other

The Family Farmer

For Students 3rd - 9th
The Family Farm explores the diverse agricultural pursuits of farm families, and serves as a window into the small-scale food production process that modern day consumers have become estranged from.
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Other

Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Econ Explorers Journal [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this collection of lesson activities, students will complete an "Econ Explorers Journal" to help them learn how economics is involved in their neighborhood, the books they read, in earning a living, at their banks, in their homes, and...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Don't Buy It: Get Media Smart!: Buying Smart

For Students 3rd - 8th
Play a Price is Right style game and learn about merchandising. You will also find lots of information about advertising, brand names, and product value.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Believe It or Not?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson reveals to students how advertisers use words and images to make goods and services look their best. To protect consumers and make sure that competition among sellers is fair in the marketplace, the federal government...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: The Sacrifice by Kathleen Benner Duble

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In the year 1692, life changes forever for ten-year-old Abigail Faulkner and her family. In Salem, Massachusetts, witches have been found, and widespread fear and panic reign mere miles from Abigail's home of Andover. When two girls are...
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Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Color Changing Robot

For Students 3rd - 8th
Scientists at Harvard University recently invented a robot shaped like the letter "X" that can change its color to blend in with its surroundings. While this robot is currently limited to operating within a laboratory, it could...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Caffeine Confusion

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to learn about how caffeine affects your body. This article includes helpful advice on how to reduce your intake of caffeine, by proving a "Caffeine Chart" that shows how much caffeine is in the foods and drinks you might...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Who's Down the Well?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Drinking water comes from many different sources, including surface water and groundwater. Environmental engineers analyze the physical properties of groundwater to predict how and where surface contaminants will travel. In this...
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: President Nixon Goes to China

For Students 3rd - 8th
Much of our dependence on Chinese-manufactured consumer goods owes itself to the diplomatic efforts of President Richard M. Nixon. Learn how this historic relationship began during the early 1970s.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Go With the Energy Flow

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about energy and nutrient flow in various biosphere climates and environments. They learn about herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, food chains and food webs, seeing the interdependence between producers, consumers and...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Be an Ad Detective

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Every day, students are bombarded by advertising. They cannot escape it. But marketers realize that many ypung people are becoming very good at tuning ads out. Businesses thus are becoming more creative in their communication with...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Dividing to Find the Unit Working Product

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students solve word problems where they must find the unit working product, which is the whole product divided by an amount used or...
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University of Missouri

University of Missouri: Wise Pockets: Four Dollars and Fifty Cents

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
This is a instructional activity geared towards elementary level students. Using the book Four Dollars and Fifty Cents by Eric Kimmel, the teacher instructs students about the terms creditor, debtor, collateral, credit, and credit...
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University of Missouri

University of Missouri St. Louis:wise Pockets: Kermit the Hermit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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Other

Kid Space: Magazing & Newspaper Articles

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here are descriptions of popular magazines appropriate for young readers from the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Follow linked titles to the magazines' homepages.

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