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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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Reading: Job Opening- Legal Assistant
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students practice their reading skills. Students read a passage and answer eleven questions about what they just read.
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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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Aerospace Industry: Vocabulary Skills
In this online interactive vocabulary skills learning exercise, students answer 10 fill in the blank questions regarding aerospace industry-related words. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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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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Chart problems involving car defects and customer service departments
In this interactive worksheet, students solve two problems using the charts provided. Students must convey they are able to understand charts and how to read them.
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Measures of Central Tendencies: Quartiles
In this statistics activity, students calculate the mean, median, mode, range, lower quartile, and upper quartile for 10 questions and interpret a box and whiskers graph.
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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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Changing Jobs (Vocabulary in Conversation)
In this interactive vocabulary learning exercise, students recognize word meanings. Students complete each of the sentences by choosing the correct word for each of the ten blanks.
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Controlling the Code: Molecules at Work
For this DNA worksheet, students access a website to learn about how single-celled organisms function successfully. Then students pretend they are a bacterium and determine how to transport lactose across their cell membrane for food....
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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...