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Reporters Without Borders

2017 World Press Freedom Index

For Students 6th - 12th
Freedom of the press was seen as a right so important that the Founding Fathers listed it as part of the first amendment to the United States Constitution. Americans pride themselves on this freedom, but just how free are American...
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Curated OER

Price Indexes

For Students 11th - 12th
Review the ways to construct a price index using this resource. First, learners review how to create a price index. Then they look at a sample chart. And, finally, they answer ten questions related to this topic.
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Tidewater Community College

Assignment: The “Big Mac” Index

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Young economists learn about the method of predicting changes in the exchange rate with Big Macs in an instructional video. After an understanding the index, learners write a post on a discussion board and respond to class members' posts...
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Curated OER

Consumer Price Index Worksheet

For Students 11th - 12th
In this economics worksheet, students respond to 2 problem solving questions regarding production and the consumer price index.
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Curated OER

Consumer Price Index

For Students 10th - 12th
In this economics activity, students respond to 2 problem solving questions regarding production and the consumer price index.
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Curated OER

Consumer Price Index

For Students 10th - 12th
In this economics worksheet, students respond to 2 problem solving questions regarding production and the consumer price index.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Consumer Price Index Worksheet

For Students 11th - 12th
In this economics worksheet, students respond to 2 problem solving questions regarding production and the consumer price index.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Consumer Price Index Worksheet

For Students 10th - 12th
In this economics worksheet, students respond to 2 problem solving questions regarding production and the consumer price index.
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Curated OER

What Did It Cost 100 Years Ago?

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students compare prices of good across the century in order to introduce the topic of inflation. They undertand the concepts of inflation and Consumer Price Index (CPI), use online calculators to figure the approximate cost of goods...
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Federal Reserve Bank

FRED in the Classroom: Measures of Inflation

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Don't just tell class members about how to measure inflation, have them experience it firsthand by asking them to work with real data and construct graphs!
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Curated OER

Are things Really More Expensive Today?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the topics of inflation and deflation within the economy. The Consumer Price Index is used to contrast the price of goods today with that of years past.
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Curated OER

Economic Health Indicators: GDP and CPI Worksheet

For Students 11th - 12th
Examine the nation's economic health using this GDP and CPI instructional activity, which features helpful graphic depictions of complex concepts. The first 2 pages include 17 short-answer questions intended to guide reading from a text...
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Curated OER

The CPI and You

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine the consumer price index (CPI). In this economics lesson, students explore how the cost of living and inflation indicate the CPI. Students complete activity worksheets in this lesson.
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Curated OER

"Meet and Greet"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners demonstrate communication skills in speaking and listening by introducing another student to the class. Working in pairs, classmates interview each other. During the 10-minute sessions, they listen, take notes on an index card,...
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Lesson 2: Using the Pandemic Vulnerability Index Model to Examine the Risk Factors Associated with COVID-19

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A instructional activity asks young mathematicians to investigate the social determinants and the environmental factors that influence risk factors associated with the spread of COVID-19. Class members then brainstorm what they can do to...
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Curated OER

Holiday Market Basket Information

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice with calculation of a price index using a fictitious market basket. They apply higher level problem-solving skills and develop an awareness of multicultural holiday rituals.
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Curated OER

Variety Is the Spice of Cellular Life

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Do you need to review animal cell structure? Investigate the ways in which different types of cells interact in a common human reflex. Your students can explore the functions of stem cells, consider various illnesses and assess stem...
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Creating Historians: Giving Scholars the Answers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
How allowing index cards on tests can empower critical thinking; part one of a series on approaching social studies as a group of historians.
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Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary

From Ben’s Pen to Our Lives

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What would Ben do? Jumping off from the pseudonymous letters Ben Franklin fooled his older brother into publishing when he was still a teenager, young literary lovers dive into acting, writing, and addressing a local issue with wit and...
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Federal Reserve Bank

What Do Financial Market Indicators Tell Us?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Explain the four categories of financial indicators (commodity prices, stock indexes, interest rates, and yield spreads), and help your class members understand how changes in this data can affect decisions regarding consumer spending,...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Measuring the Great Depression

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Young historians examine the cost of goods and services through the Consumer Price Index (CPI), output measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and unemployment measured by the unemployment rate to gain an understanding of the economic...
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Curated OER

Magnificent Michigan

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete a research project about the state of Michigan. They conduct Internet research, organize the information on index cards, and create a HyperStudio presentation.
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Global Oneness Project

The Nature of Happiness

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The U.S. Constitution states that the pursuit of happiness is an inalienable right. The United Nations' Global Happiness Index ranks countries according to the happiness of its citizens. As part of a discussion of the nature of...
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Curated OER

Can You Name that Town

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars, after becoming familiar with different names of towns in Arkansas, practice using a map grid and map index.

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