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Green is Beautiful
Students explore the need to care for the environment and the ways in which their actions can impact their surroundings. They play a board game to illustrate the need to protect the environment.
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Inventions 2: The Impact
Students research inventors and inventions and their impacts. In this invention lesson, students research inventions and their affects in good and bad ways.
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Collected Works
Students consider why people collect stamps and other items and how the Internet has changed hobbies. They review stamp collecting Web sites and brainstorm how the Web can serve another popular collectible.
Curated OER
"A Grain of Rice" by Helena Clare Pittman
Students solve the problem that comes up in the story. They realize the explosive growth of the powers of 2.
Curated OER
Sliding Along
Third graders use a ruler that has a bag tie slider attached to it to measure a number of items. While measuring, they complete a "Sliding Along" worksheet and a "Sliding Synthesis Journal." In the journal entry, they include what they...
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Off to Work We Go
First graders distinguish between jobs that provide goods and those that provide services. They role-play jobs and analyze whether their job provides services or produces goods. They draw pictures and write a description of a job in each...
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Journey to America
Students explain how life changed drastically for many families. They recognize the hardships involved in emigrating and immigrating and explain the concept of being a victim
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Flying Geese
Students examine the Flying Geese quilt pattern, and discuss and identify the pattern. They write a paragraph titled, My Quilt Report, summarizing the information discussed about the quilt patterns.
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Current Issues/Lesson Plan 2 : What I Think Should Happen
Learners explain the roles and responsibilities of various individuals and government bodies, as well as to recognize the features of the dynamic interplay between them. They explain the process of how of a bill is signed into law.
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The European Union
Seventh graders perform research related to the concept of the European Union. By becoming familiar with the Union they comprehend the advantages and disadvantages of the governmental structure.
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Small Busines Schemes
Students investigate a small business and its profitability. In pairs, as they research a business adventure, students consider the capital outlay, maintenance, office space, prices, insurance, and profit and loss statements. Students...
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Power
Students analyze people's sources of power: resources, organization and numbers. They determine when and how power is exercised by analyzing specific examples.
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Jeopardy Game
Pupils review terms and concepts related to the class through games. They play a jeopardy style game to review concepts realted to the class.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Making Spending Decisions
This lesson introduces guided, money-related, decision-making activities for children in preschool and kindergarten.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lesson One: Making Spending Decisions
The goal of this instructional activity is to introduce structured spending decisions to assist young children in making choices and to recognize that money comes in limited amounts.
Practical Money Skills
Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life
Visa provides a resource that teachers, parents, and students will all enjoy using. There are lesson plans here for all ages, as well as information about spending decisions, budgeting, and money management. Print your own play money,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's the Real Cost of That Car?
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.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Countdown to Retirement
Discover whether your budgeting skills will leave you wealthy or land you in the poor house in this engaging interactive game. This game teaches practical life skills for developing sound budgeting practices and making good financial...
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Financial Calculators
Explore your own financial information in greater detail by using these powerful tools for forecasting and assessing your financial choices. During the process, you might discover expenses you can eliminate or more effective ways to...
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Financial Soccer
Put your financial skills to the test with Visa's World Cup-themed Financial Soccer, a multiple choice question video game. Are you ready to play?
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Is Paying Over Time a Smart Move?
At T.V. 411 you can explore the concept of paying over time with situations involving credit cards, rent to own items, and more. This interactive lesson gives the learner an opportunity to make decisions about money management.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Work, Earnings and Economics: Using Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
In reading and discussing Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson, students examine basic economic concepts and explore the growth of labor unions and the role of government in a market economy.
Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: The Payoff
Help Alex and Jess make smart financial decisions within the tight three-day deadline and complete their video for the competition in this experiential game.
Other
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board: Financial Literacy: Teach It!
Students at all grade levels learn about basic finance skills and explore ways to make informed decisions about their financial future.