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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Country Mouse Makes a Decision! (Student Version)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Use this site to teach your primary students how to identify the costs and benefits of making a decision. Animated link to the story, Country Mouse Makes a Decision, makes this an entertaining and educational economics lesson.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: How E Commerce Influences Consumer Choice

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this instructional activity students learn decision making skills that will help them become better consumers. As consumers they have a variety of alternatives from which to choose. They learn about the importance of price information...
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Making Spending Decisions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson introduces guided, money-related, decision-making activities for children in preschool and kindergarten.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Decisions!"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes helping students develop decision-making skills, promote critical thinking skills, and reflect on their beliefs. Good site.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Jelly Belly Jam

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students will make a decision making chart and use it to help them in deciding which flavor of Jelly beans to buy.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Mobile Phones Matter

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson exploring whether or not mobile phones matter when it comes to financial management and financial decision-making.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's the Real Cost of That Car?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan. A project requiring research, critical thinking and complex decision-making about factoring all the costs of purchasing a large ticket item - a car.
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PBS

Pbs: Indian Pride: Spirituality: Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will be able to understand the connection between land and spirituality for Native Americans (specifically Sioux or Lakota/Dakota) and how this impacts economic decision-making.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain

For Teachers 9th Standards
Ninth graders read National Geographic's "Teenage Brains" by David Dobbs and various informational texts about the development of the teenage brain to understand the factors that ultimately dictate teens' decision-making and behavior.
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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Speech Making

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson focuses on speech making including watching famous speakers and noting their language choice, diction, body language, pauses, etc. This is followed by group work practicing the "hamburger" method of writing a prepared speech....
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Crisis in Zimbabwe

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson in which learners explore the crisis and history in Zimbabwe, the international response, and the role of the United Nations in addressing the issues. Comprehensive learning materials included.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Advertising and Its Effects on Consumer Decision Making

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will show the student the power of advertising to create demand for a product. After reviewing existing advertisements, the students will create their own campaign for a product. Following a presentation to the class as a...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Everyday Opportunities

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students will learn about choices and opportunity costs that occur every day. While this lesson will go on throughout the day, the actual lesson is short.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: You Can Bank on This! (Part 2)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
As in the first ', You Can BANK on This, you will learn that banking should not be confusing - it should be INTERESTING! Lesson Two will continue learning with Zing, but this time we will learn all about budgeting - and budgeting means...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Best Deal

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will learn how to determine 'price per unit' to help make decisions when comparing products.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Mystery of Is It Mine or Ours?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will learn that people respond predictably to positive incentives (rewards) and negative incentives (penalties). They will identify incentives in their daily lives at home and school. Students will discuss which incentives have...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces regulation and information as two tools used by government to promote fair competition and complete information in a market economy. Using the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act as a case study, young scholars explore...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Runaway Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In Runaway, a novel by Becky Citra, a boy must make some difficult decisions about whether to help another boy that he has seen steal but who is also being physically abused. The story is set in the 1830s in Upper Canada. This teacher's...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Are We Like Robots?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars explore the similarities between how humans move and walk and how robots move, so they come to see the human body as a system from an engineering point-of-view. Movement results from decision making (deciding to walk and...
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NASA

Nasa: Solar Energy for Space Exploration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity book includes lessons and objectives for students to explore solar energy for space exploration. Students will play an active part in decision making for space exploration.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Automobile Choices and Alternative Fuels

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an activity in which students take the role of either a car seller or a car buyer to learn about transportation energy options. Car sellers are challenged to pitch to buyers about cars with a particular fuel type while car buyers...
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University of Nebraska Omaha

Ec Ed Web: Give and Take

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan from the University of Nebraska for Middle School students about choice, opportunity cost, and trade-offs. Indicates standards, materials, objectives and is differentiated for one grade below and above grade-level students.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 4: Don't Be Fooled

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson plan, students learn that phud logos are everywhere and easily recognized and explore more about the hazards of marketing. For the second "Capture It" project students take a photo or draw a picture of one phud that is...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Power Generation Town Council

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will work together to implement decision-making processes used by governmental agencies to select a power generation system for a small town. This will enable students to develop critical thinking and questioning skills...

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