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Neurons, Hormones and the Brain

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this psychology learning exercise, students complete a 10 multiple choice quiz on neurons, hormones and the brain. They identify its different parts and functions.
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How Do You Profit From Trading Stocks?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars see how to calculate the gains and losses of their stock portfolios. They use basic math skills in calculating their stock investment the old-fashioned way.
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Fractions and Percentages

For Students 7th - 9th
In this fractions and percentages learning exercise, students are given 4 mental test each with 8 problems including finding percentages, converting decimals and fractions to percentages, and adding, subtracting and multiplying fractions.
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Business Vocabulary

For Students 4th - 6th
In this online interactive business worksheet, students choose the multiple choice business words that complete 15 sentences. Students check off the right choices that appropriately answer 6 additional questions.
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Graphs involving Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students graph exponential functions and analyze it for growth and decay. There are 9 problems with an answer key.
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Making Decisions: Packaging and the Environment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work in small groups to redesign the packaging of several common items. They attempt to reach the goal of 25% reduction in packaging materials currently used and explore the impact of various materials and designs in landfills...
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Charter Schools: Can They Survive in Utah?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the challenges charter schools face in receiving similar funding as districts. They explore possible policy solutions to the problems faced by Utah's charter schools. They Investigate how government services affect the...
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History of Cars

For Students 8th - 10th
In this history of cars worksheet, students answer 20 multiple choice questions about cars of the past, the types of cars, the Clean Air Act, the number of cars on the road and the average fuel economy for new cars.
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Ayiti: Children of Haiti Summit

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore the core challenges faced by children in Haiti.  For this World History lesson, 9th graders examine the impact poverty has on access to education, nutrition, basic healthcare, and child mortality.  Students research...
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The Catastrophe Clan

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students participate in a financial project and identify the three c's of credit.  In this credit card lesson, students define and understand how to use credit wisely.  Students become familiar with banking terms and types of credit. ...
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Economics: Incentives, Profit, and the Entrepreneur

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students discuss both positive and negative economic incentives. In this lecture-based instructional activity, they examine a simulation about profiteering drug companies and what might happen if the FDA controlled drug production.
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Economic Market Pain

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read and discuss article, and write an interpretation of the message for a class newspaper.
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Bridging the Centuries: Teaching the Nineteenth Century English Novel Today

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students compare and contrast the elements used in the 19th century British novel and those novels in American society today. In groups, they brainstorm what it might have been like to be a teenager growing up in England during the 19th...
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Design a Parachute

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students engage in a discussion about what a parachute is and how it works. They create a parachute using different materials that they think will work best. The students test their designs, which will be followed by a class discussion...
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Design Your Own Rube Goldberg Machine

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design and construct a Rube Goldberg machine that accomplishes a simple task in at least ten steps. They view and discuss various Rube Goldberg designs, identify types of simple machines, and in small groups produce a schematic...
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Ecology of the Dump

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine which types of garbage are biodegradable and which are nonbiodegradable. They practice measuring skills, hypothesizing, taking data, and writing a lab report. Students observe the relative biodegradability of metal,...
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Understanding and Using Red And Black Words

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this understanding and using red and black words worksheet, learners view a "Macmillan Dictionary" and observe all the different red and black words found in the dictionary. Students answer twenty-five questions about the colored words.
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Post-Modernism and Mass Culture

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine the suggestion that the subjective experience of everyday life and sense of identity has changed in America in recent years. In this post-modernism and mass culture lesson, students engage in 4 multi-step exercises that...
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Zoo Poo

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners use Internet research to determine the amount of carbon dioxide produced per unit energy for biomass and coal. In this alternative energy lesson, students research to find out how much energy and carbon dioxide several coal and...
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America's Energy Future

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write a proposal to save energy resources. In this energy lesson, students research nuclear energy, coal power, petroleum, natural gas, hydroelectric power, and renewable energy. Students then debate energy issues and share...
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Writing Equations from a Table

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use coordinates in a table to write equations. In this algebra lesson, students discuss rate of change as it relates to slope and x and y values. They plot the points from a table to graph their lines and write an equation for...
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Building Tolerance for Poverty in Math

For Teachers 6th
Students explore approximate and exact solutions. In this interdisciplinary lesson, 6th graders will be placed in 'family groups' to create a budget that is subject to random events as chosen from the 'things happen' box. This lesson...
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Gold Fever

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read the story Gold Fever about the Gold Rush and write journal entries as if they were miners. In this Gold Rush lesson plan, students also pull out rocks from a back, and if they pick a gold one, they have struck it rich!
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Integrating Science and Literacy Through Novel Studies

For Teachers 4th - 7th
You can use "The Toothpaste Millionaire" and other outstanding fiction to integrate science and literacy.

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