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PayCheck Advance Loans

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss the role of a paycheck advance loan company. Using data given to them, they calculate interest rates on the amount of advance they receive and identify the penalties of not repaying the loan on time. They record...
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How Can Business Profit from Tariffs? p1

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students investigate the impact of tariffs on businesses and consumers during the 1880s by looking at a political cartoon, solving a short math problem and comparing protectionism in the 1980's to protectionism in the 1880's.
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Kansas vs the U.S.

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students demonstrate an understanding of the physical and political geography of Kansas. They view maps and films to gain knowledge of Kansas. They calculate the percentage Kansas harvests for each crop out of the national total.
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Classroom Census

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the processes involved in data collection. They decide how census data can be used. Students engage in the data collection process and represent and interpret classroom data. They use scattergrams, arrow diagrams, block...
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Worth a Thousand Words-The Photography Essay

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students act as a public relations firm representing the school district and use photography to develop positive attitudes toward all programs. They brainstormed alternative methods to use photography and selected the photographic essay.
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The Danger of Debt: Avoiding Financial Pitfalls

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How can our perspectives of borrowing and returning influence the way we view credit? Pupils explore the concept of debt, how it impacts our ability to obtain credit, and finally the ways in which we can work to alleviate debt.
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Road Rules: Researching and Buying a Car

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How do the loan principal, interest rate, and term all factor into a monthly car payment? Introduce your class to some of the key steps and considerations of obtaining a loan and purchasing a car.
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Buy, Sell or Hold?: An Overview of Investing

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Break down the often-daunting topic of the stock market with this resource, in which pupils learn basic terminology regarding buying and selling stocks, as well as the factors that influence how much return individuals can receive on...
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Carrollton-A Study Skills Pictorial Activity Book

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders in teams select various areas of local craftwork they want to research. They are trained in photography and interviewing techniques, research the historical and current status of the craft, and interview and photograph...
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How Many Jobs In A Loaf Of Bread?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars develop career awareness and skill building for job performance. After completing an inventory of interests and skills, students link their career choice to a the agricultural components contained in their choice. Thy...
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Shoplifting

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students demonstrate knowledge that shoplifting is a crime and choose a socially positive course of action.
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The Kindness Company

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students organize themselves into a simulated company complete with applications, interviews and training. They identify a community need they can fulfill related to cooking or sewing and work to make and deliver the designated product.
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Population Vs Consumption: Which is a Bigger Problem for the Environment & Who is Getting the Lion's Share of the World's Resources?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop critical thinking and awareness about the complexity of natural resource use, wealth distribution, population densities, poverty, and the environment. They think about people living in different parts of the world and...
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Imaginary Trip to South Korea

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students "visit" South Korea through the use of technology, in a fun, and stimulating, detailed project. They arrange travel, make choices, work through a budget, learn history, have exposure to language, and get a sense of what a...
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Let the Phone Get Them Talking! Using the Yellow Pages as a Teaching Resource

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students categorize information in the Yellow Pages. In this Let the Phone Book Get Them Talking! lesson, students find pictures in the Yellow Pages and thus gain a better understanding of how the book is organized. Students locate local...
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Potato: A Tale from the Great Depression

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students barter for goods within the class. In this economics lesson based on the Great Depression, the teacher introduces the lesson with a picture book, then students are allowed to barter with teacher supplied goods as they examine...
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Neighborhoods

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine homes around the world. For this multicultural lesson, students read the book A World of Homes and Homes Around the World. Students compare and contrast the homes in the books to their own homes. Students construct a...
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Best Practices of Technology Integration

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study how a type of product is advertised. In this product advertisement lesson, students research a specific product and its advertisement. Students create a market research survey based on their peers preferences. Students...
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Your Role as a Taxpayer: Why Pay Taxes?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students evaluate the basic rationale, nature, and consequences fo taxes. They describe why governments need taxes as revenue to provide goods and servicesin this series of activities.
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Free Enterprise -- Product Cost

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the concept of free enterprise. In groups, they discuss the price of various food items and decide on which item to produce. They calculate the cost of producing the item and share their results with the class.
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Fairness in Taxes

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students identify and describe two criterion of tax fairness: benefits received and the ability to pay and distinguish between wealth and income as measures of ability to pay.
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What is Taxed and Why

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students are exposed to the need for federal, state and local governments to tax constituents to provide goods and services for their residents. They identify the different kinds of taxes and give examples of the goods and services taxed.
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The Taxpayer's Rights

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine rights of taxpayers and procedures the IRS uses to process tax returns
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The Taxpayer's Responsibilities

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils explore system of voluntary compliance, and describe taxpayers' responsibilities related to filing a tax return.

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