Fourth graders become conscientious consumers. In this personal health lesson plan, 4th graders analyze techniques used in advertising health-related products and services.

For this finding the products in word problems worksheet, students multiply one-digit by one-digit numbers to solve. Students solve five word problems.

Students survey college students.  In this lesson plan, students explore typical costs.  They examine education loans.  Students complete a FASFA form and write an essay describing plans for obtaining money for college...

Young scholars explore the role of government in the economy market. In this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are...

Students examine the effect of hazardous chemicals on humans. They discover how the chemicals are cleaned up and the facilities in their neighborhood. They identify federal and local agencies that oversee environmental hazards

In this mining and nonrenewable resources worksheet, students read about mining in Texas and simulate the extraction of nonrenewable minerals. They use cookies and their components to represent the minerals they will mine and they answer...

Students create their own design clothing company, incorporating the 4 Ps of marketing. They use imagination, art, and creative skills to develop each component of the packet. Students are explained the four Ps of Marketing (product,...

Students learn about budgeting, saving, dept, financial management, opportunity cost, and self-regulation. For this financial management lesson, students apply their knowledge of finance components and create their own web based plan...

Students access prior knowledge of the stock market and how it works. In this buying and selling stocks lesson, students complete worksheets on stocks to understand how the stock market works. Students answer critical thinking questions...

Learners design a flower-pot and saucer. In this math lesson, students incorporate the use of technology to correctly build and shape a flower pot. They calculate the necessary mass of the red clay used to make the pot.

Students explore eight career and technical areas and make connections with business, family and consumers, and technology. They examine and describe how agriculture and natural resources impact our quality of life. They explore and...

Students examine the role of choice in a democracy, the choice to participate and not to participate. They take a position on the role of recycling and whether in a democracy people can be forced to recycle. They break into for and...

Young scholars explore land use.  In this land lesson, students examine the use of land and land records.  They create a diagram of a specified piece of land and determine the area of the land.  Young scholars discuss...

Students define economic terms, list three conditions that must be present in order for demand to exist, define law of supply and demand, differentiate between buyer's and seller's markets, examine concept of elasticity, view tutorial on...

Students engage in a role-playing situation to illustrate the kinds of compromised that were made a teh Constitutional Convention. They write three short 1-2 paragraph arguments and then present their arguments to the class at the...

Students explore the historical event when Mansa Musa, Ruler of Mali, made the Hajj (or holy pilgrimage) to Mecca in 1324 AD. They create Web pages or PowerPoint presentations maps, charts, posters, and oral presentations with...

Students, in groups, study life in the Arctic Region and connect their own life experiences to the experiences of students in the Arctic.

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...

Students investigate fair trade practices. In this economics instructional activity, students conduct collaborative research on fair trade practices, the controversies of trade, and the effects of fair trade practices. Students present...

Practice using parallel structure. Learners correct faulty parallelism in an extensive list of sentences. The faults in each sentence are sometimes subtle, so scholars will need solid background knowledge on parallel structure to catch...

Students analyze evidence of society's socioeconomic goals, prioritize goals, and identify the opportunity costs of limited government funding.

Students examine the short and long term benefits of educational choices. They investigate incentives that influence student's career choices and solve and economic mystery using a web tool.

Students decide how many times to spray a strawberry crop. They apply marginal analysis and discover the "law of diminishing returns."