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Lesson Plan
Carolina K-12

Factors of Production and Economic Decision-Making

For Teachers 10th Standards
Class members begin this engaging economics activity by listing all the resources used in producing a car and using that example to draw parallels to the four primary factors of production: capital goods, labor, natural resources, and...
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The Job Jungle -- A Labor Market Game

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers work together to participate in a labor market game. They discuss the concepts of supply and demand and how they relate to labor. They ask any questions they have to complete the lesson.
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Teens in the Workforce: Venn Diagram

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Kids compare the reasons and benefits of teens entering the workforce, then and now. They compare the benefits of working teens in the 1840's to those of working teens in the year 2005. Note: The years can be changed to update this...
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Badges of Pride

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate jobs and how people identify with their job.  In this labor instructional activity, 5th graders create a book from illustrations of various jobs. Students read an article about labor and answer questions about...
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Maple Syrup Production

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students make their own maple sugar and learn about how it is made on a grander scale. In this maple sugar lesson plan, students make their own maple sugar and learn about evaporation and what labor is put into making it.
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Motherhood Math: Mothers in the Workforce

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students evaluate a table showing how the number of working mothers increased between 1955 and 2000. They use the information from the table to complete a worksheet imbedded in this lesson plan.
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Discovering and Converting the Battle of Homestead

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study and explore the Homestead strike and locate where the events took place.  In this investigative lesson students use several perspectives to write an objective newspaper article on the event. 
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Development After Birth

For Students 7th - 9th
For this reproduction worksheet, students identify the causes which contribute to secondary sex characteristics to develop. Then they determine when the adolescent growth spurt begins and ends for girls and for boys. Students also...
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Cotton And Child Labor

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders investigate the practice of child labor as found in the history of the United States. The teacher reads the class a story from the year of 1914. This creates context for the lesson and then students answer teacher...
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Production: Specialization and Division of Labor

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders select a product to produce. In teams, pupils participate in hands-on activities to explore the concept of specialization. They discover the differences between a division of labor and independent production. Classmates...
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Labor Needs in Colonial America

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the labor needs in colonial America. Using primary and secondary resources, they explore the major events and life in the United States during colonial times. They complete a chart listing the pros and cons of a slave...
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Freedmen's Bureau: Labor Contract or Re-enslavement?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine the topics of the Freedman's Bureau and labor contracting. They analyze the economic conditions in Alabama after the Civil War. They draw conclusions about the problems with sharecropping.
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Roll the Union On: the National Labor Relations Act and the Rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the many different programs Roosevelt created as a result of the Great Depression. They research the National Labor Relations Act and explore what working conditions were like during that time.
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Division of Labor

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students study the Industrial Revolution and its effects on workers and productivity in order to explain the concepts of division of labor and cottage industry.
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Rice: The Global Crop

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students understand the uniqueness of the rice plant and how it grows. Students compare rice growing in Indonesia and California, observing the steps common to the process everywhere. Students comprehend the concepts labor-intensive and...
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A Catering Idea

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners plan meals, create a shopping list, determine the cost of the meal, including incidentals such as labor and electricity used. In addition, they consider the cost of plates, table cloths, napkins, etc. Students prepare a meal and...
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Labor, The Economy, and Monetary Policy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine the relationship between labor, economy and monetary policy. In groups, they identify the factors that affect the labor market and the role of the Federal Reserve. They review how policy is made and how it can...
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Assessing the Labour Behind the Label

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the labor conditions in different companies and corporations. In groups, they use the internet to locate the conditions of the companies of the clothes they are wearing. They share their information with the...
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Children's Rights/Child Labor - Photos & Posters as Instruments of Change

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the use of students for labor around the globe. Using magazine pictures, they create a poster showing the various conditions they are subject to. They compare and contrast the differences in regions and evaluate the...
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Children's Rights/Child Labor -- A Photographic Essay

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students continue to examine the conditions students work in throughout the world. Using photographs, they discover the similarities and differences in regions throughout the world. They relate their own experiences to the child laborers.
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Tobacco: Labor Issues in Tobacco Processing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the various job classifications in the tobacco industry. Using their text, they determine the average wage rate and typical gender working in the tobacco companies in the early 20th century. They discuss the impact of...