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Budget Making

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students develop a budget for spending and saving. For this economics lesson, students create a budget based on personal, family and government income. They discuss jobs at home and allowances. They discuss how they manage their money...
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I Can Buy Anything I Want: Consumer Debt and Social Responsibility

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A clear, comprehensive overview of consumer debt, credit, interest, international currency, and social responsibility, this 45-minute session falters in the application stage. You'll need to create a way for learners to demonstrate their...
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Deer Population

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders study deer including their reproduction rate and management in Pennsylvania.  In this deer overpopulation lesson students estimate deer population and suggest management tools. 
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Algebra Jeopardy

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students participate in an algebra jeopardy game. In this algebra review lesson plan, students are split into two groups and answer review questions from the Algebra I curriculum. Students use a prepared computer game as a game board.
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Song Lyrics Scramble

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students who are learning English play a game in which they hear pop music lyrics (in English) and they must identify the song from which the lyrics come. This activity encourages students to listen to all words being said, not just the...
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Mountain Lions in Arizona Lesson 5: Humans and Lions - Encounters in Nature

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Fledgling felinologists are taught how to recognize when a mountain lion is preparing to attack. They identify proper actions to provide the greatest chance of survival if they are attacked. Learners play a matching card game in which...
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Soccer - Lesson 18 - 1st Round of the World Cup

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Lesson 18 in this 20 lesson soccer unit is really just the 1st round of the World Cup class soccer tournament. This is not really a lesson, but is inserted into the unit as a place holder for the days activity. All the players are busy...
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Soccer - Lesson 6 - Job Duties

For Teachers 7th - 12th
There's more to soccer than just playing the game. Here, the class is introduced to the duties of the: owner, manager, coach, captain, statistician, publicist, and referee. Each of these roles have specific duties in order for a team to...
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What are the Indices of Investing?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn the benchmarks that measure the ups and downs of the stock market. They also explore how to set up a diversified portfolio and trade stock indices for the Global Stock Game (GSG).
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Lesson 9 What are the Indices of Investing?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the benchmarks that measure the ups and downs of the stock market. They also set up a diversified portfolio and trade stock indices for the Global Stock Game (GSG).
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The Delicate Balance - Iowa's Natural Resources

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Discover the natural resources in Iowa by studying it's history. In this environmental lesson, your students will observe a topographical map of Iowa and identify where its most valuable resources are. They complete an Iowa name...
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Algebra 1: Simplifying Radicals

For Teachers 8th - 9th Standards
After discussing the difference between rational and irrational numbers, the class pratices simplifying, adding, and subtracting radical expressions. They play a game which involves passing around cards until they have matching hands of...
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Context Clues

For Teachers 9th
Work on context clues with your ninth graders in this lesson, which focuses on identifying and analyzing clues to define unfamiliar words. They identify context clues in a passage to recognize words they haven't seen before, and then...
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Understanding and Avoiding HIV/AIDS

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore myths and facts pertaining to AIDS. For this AIDS/HIV lessons, students listen to their instructor deliver a lecture regarding the disease and then play a true or false game based on the lecture.
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Women in Skiing: Winter Sports, Gender Roles, Discrimination, Women's History

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a newsletter about women in skiing, addressing issues of gender discrimination in sports and women's achievements.
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Wildlife and Highway Management

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils create a research questions about animal underpasses and how animals use them. In this animals lesson plan, students use their collected data to answer their question.
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Against all Odds

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders appreciate the role of probability in understanding everyday situations. They Communicate a summary of financial projections in appropriate reports, tables, and graphs after creating a new game of chance.
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White-tailed Deer: Beauty or Beast?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use study guides and videos to discuss the positive and negative impacts of white-tailed deer populations. In this wildlife management lesson, students view slides and discuss the natural history and value of deer as a resource....
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Making Good Money Choices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine how to spend donated money. In this money choices lesson, students explore the needs of the community. They determine the best use of donated funds for a good cause or charity. Students play a bingo game to reinforce...
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Historical Problem Solving Through a Study of Transport

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students research various transportation inventions. They create a transportation game that includes the information learned from the core subjects.
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Asthma and Allergies

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students show the symptoms of asthma, diabetes and common allergies. Students discuss ways of managing asthma, diabetes and allergies. Students devise ways of helping children to cope with these.
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Understanding and Avoiding HIV/AIDS

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars begin the lesson by discussing what they already know about their immune system. In groups, they participate in a true and false game using the facts and myths of HIV/AIDS. They discuss how the disease is affecting their...
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Risk-It

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a game in which they are introduced to the Federal Reserve system. After indentifying new vocabulary, they decide which categories to choose from and select a spokesperson for each team. They play the game...
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Where's the Grass

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students participate in a grassland game. In this grassland lesson plan, students simulate the impact of grazing animals and invasive weeds on grasslands.