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Abledata: The World of Assistive Technology

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A database of 20,000 currently available products from over 2,000 different companies. "Each product record contains a detailed description of the product as well as price, manufacturer and distributor information. You will also find...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Marketing Your Business

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Marketing is the activities of a company associated with buying and selling a product or service. It includes advertising, selling, and delivering products to people. In order to successfully market and sell your products and /or...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Protecting Your Identity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will create a database of Identity (ID) Theft Protection Services. Students will create a database report with recommendation regarding individual companies' that provide identity theft protection services and which...
Lesson Plan
Other

Science Alive: Making and Sizing Paper

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity students will learn to make and size paper. The activity can be used as an introductory activity to promote student interest. In the early part of the 20th century, the field of chemistry was very involved in industrial...
Primary
BBC

Bbc Newsround: Samsung Fined for Fake Comments

For Students 2nd - 5th
Article reports that Samsung has recently been fined for hiring a company to post fake positive reviews about their products and negative comments about competitors' products online.
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Other

Arts Journal: Dance Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The ArtsJournal website provides a daily summary of arts and cultural journalism from the English-language press around the world, with links to complete articles for further reading. The dance page collects links on a wide range of...
Activity
Other

Creating Brochures That Sell

For Students 9th - 10th
Quick review of purposes of company brochures, includes styles, copyediting, and other considerations in their production.
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Other

Inspiration Software

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the official website of Inspiration Software, Inc. The company offers visual learning software for students. The site offers a great deal of information on visual learning and provides lesson plans that use visual learning as a...
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Other

Chlorine Institute

For Students 9th - 10th
The website from the Chlorine Institute provides information for a trade association of companies that make chlorine products. Lots of information and references, along with a search engine for the entire site.
Website
Intel Corporation

Intel.com

For Students 9th - 10th
Intel information for home computing, business computing, developers, and channels. Product information and company history.
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Other

California Newsreel: Videos on African American Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This company claims to be the "oldest and most notable non-profit documentary production and distribution center in the nation." It offers a rich collection of videos on all aspects of African American life and history: e.g., Academy...
Handout
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Designing a Healthier, Happier Meal: Fast Food Marketing

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how many fast food companies invest in advertising to convince consumers to buy their products.
Activity
British Library

British Library: Teaching Resources: Putting the Merchant of Venice in Context: A Summary of Sources

For Students 9th - 10th
This summary of sources is a quick and easy way to explore the contexts for The Merchant of Venice - from early modern ideas about trade and usury, Venice and Jewish culture to 20th-century productions by both Nazis and Yiddish companies...
Lesson Plan
Other

T. Skinner Business Education: Desktop Publishing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Are you looking for desktop publishing resources? Tonya Skinner is a business educator who has compiled resources to enrich the business classroom. Resources include: lesson plans, activities, and desktop publishing links.
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: History of Biotechnology in North Carolina

For Students 9th - 10th
The biotechnology industry is comprised of all organizations involved in the development, manufacturing, or marketing of products that are based on bio-molecular research. The industry is closely aligned with the research and development...
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Other

Nonprofit: Don't Spread That Hoax!

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a well thought out presentation of why you might want to dig deeper before sending that "Urgent," sounding message and spreading a junk-mail virus.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Economic Activity in India, 1915

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1915 of British India, showing principal economic products of the region at the time. The map is color-coded to show areas where tea, wheat, rice, opium, tobacco, jute, and cotton are grown, and areas of coal extraction....
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Pre Colonial Africa, 1872

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Africa showing the continent prior to the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial borders at the start of...
Graphic
Curated OER

Contagion: The Spread of Eugenics Throughout American Popular Culture in the 20s

For Students 9th - 10th
A very complete look at the theory of eugenics, the pseudo-scientific idea that fed into the nativists' search for the "superior" American. This article explains how companies used this theory to sell their products.
Graphic
Curated OER

Contagion: The Spread of Eugenics Throughout American Popular Culture in the 20s

For Students 9th - 10th
A very complete look at the theory of eugenics, the pseudo-scientific idea that fed into the nativists' search for the "superior" American. This article explains how companies used this theory to sell their products.
Graphic
Curated OER

Contagion: The Spread of Eugenics Throughout American Popular Culture in the 20s

For Students 9th - 10th
A very complete look at the theory of eugenics, the pseudo-scientific idea that fed into the nativists' search for the "superior" American. This article explains how companies used this theory to sell their products.
Graphic
Curated OER

Contagion: The Spread of Eugenics Throughout American Popular Culture in the 20s

For Students 9th - 10th
A very complete look at the theory of eugenics, the pseudo-scientific idea that fed into the nativists' search for the "superior" American. This article explains how companies used this theory to sell their products.
Graphic
Curated OER

Contagion: The Spread of Eugenics Throughout American Popular Culture in the 20s

For Students 9th - 10th
A very complete look at the theory of eugenics, the pseudo-scientific idea that fed into the nativists' search for the "superior" American. This article explains how companies used this theory to sell their products.
Graphic
Curated OER

Contagion: The Spread of Eugenics Throughout American Popular Culture in the 20s

For Students 9th - 10th
A very complete look at the theory of eugenics, the pseudo-scientific idea that fed into the nativists' search for the "superior" American. This article explains how companies used this theory to sell their products.