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Get Your Kicks on Route 66
Students research when and why Route 66 was started and how mom and pop businesses fit in with Route 66. Students associate what they've learned with the song.
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Women's Rights Ancient Egypt and the United States
High schoolers explore the rights of women in the United States and ancient Egypt. Comparisons between the two eras and countries are made as the wealth, business, marriages, court cases, divorces, and employment of women are probed.
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Perform Accounting Functions
Learners practice performing various accounting functions. Given analysis records, they prepare cost and revenue analysis based on specific criteria. They complete handouts and review their answers as a class. They also discuss the...
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Persuasion
High schoolers explore the characteristics of a persuasive letter. They label each characteristic and they create a persuasive letter using the correct business letter format. Students recommend a school rule or change of a rule and...
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TECH:Robotic Hazardous Materials Squad
High schoolers use a remote controlled robot to simulate a hazardous materials removal exercise. They are introduced to the following career: Robotics, Hazardous Materials Specialist, Robotic Technician, Environmental Scientist,...
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How to Protect Your Money
Students determine how to protect themselves from monetary scams. They look at how scams are initiated, what they may can do in response to solicitation, and how to keep their money safe. They practice telling phone and home solicitors...
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Hourly Planner Options
In this literacy worksheet, students examine the use of a planner and how it is used in school or business. The sheet is intended as a teacher's guide.
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Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education
Pupils analyze photographs that feature segregation. In this human rights activity, students examine photographs of a segregated movie theater, a Ku Klux Klan gathering, a segregated business sign, and an illustration from "Harper's...
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Language Learning Course Case Study
Students analyze data concerning possible language learning training. In this business and language learning course, students work in groups to analyze data and determine which is the best method of language learning for a group of...
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Accounting -- Journalizing Sales and Cash Payments
Students brainstorm a list of what they believe a customer is. In groups, they practice journaling sales to a customer who pays with cash or with credit. To end the lesson, they discover the proper way to prove cash payments at the end...
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Debt and Deficits
Students identify, research and interpret the national debt and deficits of the past through today and why it has risen significantly in the last 20 years. They analyze the size and impacts and discuss the various policy measures for...
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Antislavery Sentiments
Young scholars review the basic facts of the Amistad slave ship case. They are challenged to test their powers of close reading by being asked to summarize the decision handed down by the Supreeme Court of the United States in 1841. ...
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The REAL Cost of College
Students explore the cost of college and how to plan and save. In this money management lesson students do research on the cost of college, learn about making financial choices, earning, spending, saving, investing and how they apply to...
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Taxes: Where Does Your Money Go?
Students study taxes and the role that they place in our lives. In this economic activity, students explore the reality of taxes, how they work, why we pay them, where the money goes and how to make the most of the money you pay into...
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Shopping Spree
Learners calculate discounts, sale price, and sale tax. In this consumer math lesson, students visit mock stores which have items for sale. Learners calculate the final prices of items.
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Stock Research
In this economics activity, learners conduct their own research in order to respond to the 12 short answer questions pertaining to the stock market.
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Banking on the Future
Students solve problems involving interest. In this investing instructional activity, students investigate the pros and cons of investing in a bank account and stocks. They differentiate between aggressive and conservative investments.
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Money Matters: The Importance of Global Cooperation
Students prepare for a visit to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). For this lesson students create a concept map of money. They discuss the goals of the IMF. Students research countries currently changing into market economies. After...
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Decision Trees
Students explore the decision-making in the context of a rugby club who have made rapid progress up the league structure. They construct a decision tree using the information given and calculate a final value to make quantitative...
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"O Captain! My Captain!"
Who was Walt Whitman, and what link does he have to president Abraham Lincoln? After Lincoln's assassination, Whitman wrote "O Captain! My Captain!" This poem and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" are the focus of...
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The Art of Advertising
Get your class thinking about advertising with this lesson plan. Over the course of 15 days, your class will discuss advertising techniques, study the concepts of pathos, logos, and ethos, and analyze the persuasive techniques of...
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Ports in the Storm
Learners explore national security issues related to the possibility of a Dubai-owned company operating an American port. Opinions are solicited and debated.
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Spending Public Money
High schoolers work in small groups. They imagine that they are the council committee. Students choose from a list of projects to be funded. They have one hundred thousand dollars to spend and they have to spend the money on a project...
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Raising Money for Government Services
High schoolers evaluate how money is raised to pay for government services. They describe why governments need revenue to provide goods and services. They create a list of government expenditures at the federal, state and local levels....
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