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Foreign Policy Association
The FPA is an "organization founded in 1918 to educate Americans about significant world issues that have an important impact on their lives." Gives students an opportunity to take part in activities through the Great Decisions program.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Energy Balance & Greenhouse Effect Teaching Box
This teaching box will help your students understand how conservation of energy determines the average temperature of a planet, including Earth. These activities also illustrate how the greenhouse effect prevents our home planet from...
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills at Home: Saving and Investing
This collection of activities offers practical strategies to help parents teach teens the basics of saving and investing. Using the suggested activities, parents can share facts about direct investing, mutual funds, and investment clubs...
Council of Foreign Relations
Terrorism Questions and Answers: Economics
Part of an extensive website from the Council on Foreign Relations devoted to understanding all aspects of terrorism and its implications for the United States, this section focuses on the economic impact of the September 11, 2001...
Other
Tonya Skinner Business Ed Lesson Plans: Grocery Shopping
This personal site provides a student activity that allows learners to plan a class party while organizing the budget details in a spreadsheet program. Learners will demonstrate computer skills in inputting data, formatting data, and...
Climate Literacy
Clean: Earth's Albedo
This engaging activity introduces students to the concept of albedo and how it relates to Earth's energy balance. They measure the albedo using maps, data tables, and a shaker filled with popcorn kernels. Then, they estimate the Earth's...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: A Penny Saved Is a Penny at 4.7% Earned
This is a lesson from EconEdLink where students learn about saving money. Includes activities and materials.
PBS
Pbs: Personal Spending Spreadsheet
This activity helps students create their own personal spending plan.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Zion National Park
What do you know about Zion National Park? Use this site to learn more about this national park. This site features activities, maps and more.
Other
In Charge: Financial Literacy for Kids
The following lessons provide guidance, lesson plans, and activities for teachers interested in introducing financial literacy concepts to students in grades K-6.
Practical Money Skills
Visa: Practical Money Skills: Financial Literacy for Grades 9 12
A financial literacy curriculum which features engaging design, student-centered activities, research projects, discussion points, and tools and resources. These lessons are designed to engage students in learning the personal finance...
University of Missouri
University of Missouri St. Louis:wise Pockets: Kermit the Hermit
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.
University of Missouri
Wise Pockets World: Wise Pockets Clubhouse for Students
As students read the stories in the library, they learn about earning money, spending and saving money, and a bit about borrowing and lending money as well. Each story is followed by a short quiz and a printable activity.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Design, Build and Test Your Own Landfill
Students design and build model landfills using materials similar to those used by engineers for full-scale landfills. Their completed small-size landfills are "rained" on and subjected to other erosion processes. The goal is to create...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Flying T Shirts
During this engineering design/build project, students investigate many different solutions to a problem. Their design challenge is to find a way to get school t-shirts up into the stands during home sporting events. They follow the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Edible Rovers
Students act as Mars exploratory rover engineers. They evaluate rover equipment options and determine what parts fit in a provided NASA budget. With a given parts list, teams use these constraints to design for their rover. The students...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Edible Rovers High School
Students act as Mars exploratory rover engineers, designing, building and displaying their edible rovers to a design review. To begin, they evaluate rover equipment and material options to determine which parts might fit in their given...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Requirements & Constraints: Making Model Parking Garages
The difference between an architect and an engineer is sometimes confusing because their roles in building design can be similar. Students experience a bit of both professions by following a set of requirements and meeting given...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Build a Toy Workshop
Working as if they are engineers who work for (the hypothetical) Build-a-Toy Workshop company, students apply their imaginations and the engineering design process to design and build prototype toys with moving parts. They set up...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Choosing the Best Cell Phone Plan for You
Students research the features and costs of cell phones and cell phone plans and use a decision matrix to compare options and determine the best one for their needs, wants, and budget.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills at Home: Saving and Investing
Teach children the value of saving and investing their money using these suggested ideas. Activity offers real-world experiences that will help children better grasp these concepts. Links to related websites and worksheets are included.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills at Home: Allowance and Savings
Ideas to teach children the importance of saving and the value of an allowance using this activity. Suggestions for conveying these ideas include related worksheets to help children better grasp these concepts.
US National Archives
Docsteach: The School Lunch Program and the Federal Government
Young scholars will draw upon the visual and textual data presented in photographs and documents to gain an understanding of how the federal school lunch program is a direct result of the Great Depression, how it became a permanent part...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Powering Smallsburg
In this activity, students act as power engineers by specifying the power plants to build for a community. They are given a budget, an expected power demand from the community, and different power plant options with corresponding...