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Philanthropy "Giants"
Students report on the activism of corporate philanthropists. In this service learning lesson, students research companies that operate as philanthropists and identify their recipients.
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Real Life, Your Life: Body Talk
Students discover how body language effects verbal communication. In this body language lesson, students watch a video clip, observing what is said and how the people act with their bodies. Students complete a worksheet to record their...
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Brucemore Mansion
Students take a closer look at Brucemore Mansion. In this Iowa history instructional activity, students research what life was like at the mansion during the Gilded Age and through history. Students also research the responsibilities of...
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Budgeting Money
Students explore the concept of budgeting. In this budgeting lesson, students pick an occupation and develop a list of needs and wants. Students make a list of monthly expenses and budget their income to afford those expenses.
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Dot-Com Gives Small Investors a Leg Up
Young scholars explore the concept of investing in stocks. In this investing in stocks instructional activity, students discuss how on-line stock traders have helped people save money. Young scholars discuss ways in which companies can...
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The IMF in Action: What Does the IMF Do?
Students use newspapers and the internet to discover what the IMF does. They work together in groups to brainstorm occupations which need another language to be spoken. They also examine data related to trading among countries.
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Storm Chasing, Inc.
Pupils use the internet to research storm chasing. They develop their own lesson plan and present it to the class. They create a visual for their lesson plan as well.
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Public Companies: Power of the People
Learners examine the differences between publicly and privately owned companies. They determine the relationship between publicly traded companies and their shareholders. They determine what it means to be a shareholder and what...
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Working With Young Children
Learners practice using tips when working with small children. They discuss reactions of children given certain situations. They also research careers that focus on the development of children.
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Magic Tree House Story
Young scholars, while in the computer lab assessing how to use Hyper Studio, utilize computer technology as a vehicle to telling an oral story. They create a title page for their Magic Tree House stories. A variety of technology tools...
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The Artist As Entrepreneur: You Say Tomato, I See Tomato
High schoolers compare phone negotiations with in person negotiations to identify the non-verbal communication that is produced in face-to-face meetings. They practice forms of non-verbal communication by reciting the alphabet and...
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Who's Uninsured in 2007? It's More Than Just the Poor
Students explore the concept of health care. For this health care lesson, students read an article about the financial cost associated with health care. Students discuss costs and resources that people in the article have to deal with...
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Food Shopping Tips
Twelfth graders explore different ways of shopping to try to save money. In this economics lesson plan, 12th graders participate in a game that explains various shopping tips. Students generate other shopping tips as a group to share...
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Real Life, Your Life?
Students explore difficult decisions that students have to make. In this vocational activity, students examine various case studies and discuss how they would handle the situation and what decisions they would make.
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Tolerance: Gender Issues
Students explore why some professions have been gender-dominant in the past. In this instructional activity, students identify some professions that have typically had one specific gender employed in the past, then research that job to...
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Problem-Based Research Lesson: Wal-Mart Debate
To prepare for class, students will read several articles (links included). Students discuss the articles, and ways to deal with the proliferation of big-box stores in rural areas. The class takes two minutes to generate a research...
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The Cost of Life
Students research the salary for a career of interest. They consider what kind of lifestyle that career would provide and graph their information for comparison.
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Career Choices Are Changing
Third graders use magazine to find pictures of things that their grandparents did not have and make a display listing related careers to each picture. They discuss how the world has changed.
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Prairie Voices...Making a Living
Students explore the many ways people support themselves and their families. In this economics lesson plan, students review newspapers and compare types of jobs. Students create daily schedules for an adult worker and role play job...