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Picture a Business
Students create helpful books about local businesses to show what resources are available to their community.
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Ohio Inventors
Fourth graders gain an understanding of the impacts that inventions have made on the lives of others and how new developments led to the growth of Ohio and the United States. They also investigate the lives of some individual inventors.
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Measuring Where We Sit In The Universe
Pupils investigate scientific measurement. They use a variety of scales to do the job and communicate the results correctly. The teacher uses socratic questioning throughout the lesson plan checking for comprehension. Students measure...
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Go Figure! Using Percents in the Real World
Sixth graders solve sales tax problems. For this solving sales tax problems lesson, 6th graders find the sales tax on various items. Students are given a list of expenses that a family spent on vacation before taxes. ...
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Vocabulary; Grocery Store, Supermarket-Part 1
In this foreign language worksheet, students complete 10 sentences by selecting the correct word to fill in the blank for each sentence. Sentences all relate to vocabulary that would be used in a trip to the supermarket or grocery store.
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Estimating and Counting Money
Students explore the concepts of estimating and rounding. In this estimating and rounding lesson, students play a game of tic-tac-toe. Students pick items and must estimate their cost by rounding. Students estimate the costs of pretend...
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Super Duper Market
In this algebra worksheet, students rewrite word problems using algebraic symbols. These problems are interactive. There is an answer key.
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ESL: Relative Clause
In this ESL relative clause learning exercise, students fill in blanks with the appropriate relative clause in order to complete 20 sentences. A link to audio and HTML code is given.
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Tort Hypotheticals
Learners review the use of intentional torts. In groups, they use specific statements and use them in hypothetical situtations. For each category, they write a statements about the situation and discuss them as a class. They complete a...
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Models with monomials and polynomials
Students participate in a instructional activity that focuses on the concepts of combining monomials to make polynomial expressions. They use algebra tiles to complete the exercises in the instructional activity. This is hands-on...
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Supermarket
Students watch demonstrations of 2 ways for people to check out at a supermarket based on today's technology. In this supermarket lesson plan, students conclude which method is faster and explain why.
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Shopping at The Classroom Store
First graders participate in a simulation where they purchase items from a store. They choose items to purchase, total the amount on a calculator, and gather the exact change to make their purchase.
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It's Sale Time: Shopping Vocabulary
In this shopping vocabulary worksheet, students choose a word of word set to correctly fill in blanks in sentences, 15 sentences total.
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Tools of the Trade
Young scholars create and then play a game similar to Memory, which encourages them to recall what they have learned about different occupations and the related tools.
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What's It Worth? Thinking About Weights and Measures
Students examine how weights and measures can be used to assess value, that traders must be wary of fraudulent practices, and appreciate the Akan weights as works of art.
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Money Madness
Second graders review coins and their values. In this coin recognition instructional activity, 2nd graders review the coin values as they read 'Smart' by Shel Silverstein. Students use class computer demonstrations to identify the coin's...
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Invent PCR: You May Win a Nobel Prize
Students gain an appreciation for the simplicity, but also complexity and elegance of PCR. They comprehend all components of the protocol. Students explain exactly how CPR works, and why, after the third cycle, the predominant DNA being...
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Word Choice: Whose and Who's
In these word choice worksheets, students read the sentences and complete each sentence with one of the choices of whose or who's.
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Got Pi
Your students can explore the mathematical concept of Pi with these lesson plans.
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Ncr: James Ritty, Inventor of the Cash Register, 1879
An interesting biography of James Ritty and an account of how he invented the cash register. Included are pictures of his designs and the prototypes.
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Ncr: Patterson, John H.
John H. Patterson bought the company that sold the new invention, the cash register, and renamed it the National Cash Register Company, to become the worldwide business, NCR. Read this biography of Patterson and his impact on business,...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Invention of the Week: James Ritty
The interesting biography of James Ritty and his design of the first mechanical cash register. His subsequent sale of the invention to John H. Patterson blossomed into the company, National Cash Register Company.
Ohio History Central
Ohio History Central: James Ritty
Biography of James Ritty, the inventor of the cash register.
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Better Lesson: Solving Linear Equations in Two Variables
This MAP Classroom Challenge provides learners with an engaging and thought-provoking activity about notebooks, pens and cash registers to learn about solving equations in two variables. Includes assessment materials, student handouts,...