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Picture a Business

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create helpful books about local businesses to show what resources are available to their community.
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Ohio Inventors

For Teachers 4th
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

For Teachers 7th - 9th
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

For Teachers 6th
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

For Teachers 8th - 9th
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

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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

For Students 4th - 6th
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

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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

For Teachers 1st - 4th
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

For Teachers 1st
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

For Students 3rd - 4th
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

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
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

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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

For Teachers 2nd
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

For Teachers 11th - 12th
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

For Students 6th - 7th
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

For Teachers 5th - 12th
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

For Students 9th - 10th
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.

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
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Mit: Invention of the Week: James Ritty

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Ohio History Central: James Ritty

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of James Ritty, the inventor of the cash register.
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Better Lesson: Solving Linear Equations in Two Variables

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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,...