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Race into Reading

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners create a career exploration experience for elementary students. In this career exploration lesson, learners select a career field d to read about to elementary children. Students then present the Career Exploration Day to the...
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Who Am I? Exploring Identity

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students create an artistic representation of their identities. In this identity lesson, students discover the different facets that make up their own identities. Students work in small groups to find a favorite image and provide an...
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Credit and Debt: Understanding Credit Reports and Managing Debt

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Credit cards are tempting to use right out of high school. Teach your upperclassmen the benefits and challenges of credit and how it can affect their future. The lesson covers credit scores and ways to strengthen credit if...
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Risk Management and Insurance: Insurance Costs and Considerations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Compare the different types of insurance with high schoolers, and have them learn the benefits and costs of medical, auto, and home policies. The resource addresses what makes some insurances more costly and what teenagers can do to...
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Buying a Home: Mortgage Decisions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers don't think they need to know about mortgages, but with college and renting soon approaching, fiscal responsibility is necessary. Pupils learn the vocabulary of a mortgage and calculate different home values to determine...
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Miscast and Seldom Seen

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Consider how well students' favorite TV shows, movies and video games reflect the diversity of society. The lesson plan introduces your class to several media literacy concepts, such as how media conveys values and messages, as well as...
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Diversity in Media: Looking Critically at What We See

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
This learning experience fosters awareness of representations we see, and don't see, in the media. Learners list TV programs, games, and films they enjoy, identify characters' ethnic, religious, (dis)ability, and sexual orientation...
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What Will We Become?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create an action plan based upon the results of the School Climate Survey. They implement the plan as demonstrated by a daily log of activity. They complete group and individual reflection and evaluation activities.
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Economic Forces

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the economic forces of scarcity and choice. They examine how these forces affect the management of personal financial resources, shape consumer decisions, and the economic well-being of society. Students research stock...
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Savings and Consumption

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Young scholars engage in a study that is focused upon the practice of how financial savings is accumulated and spent. This is based upon the rate of consumption with spending. The lesson helps students to create a working budget...
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Trade Creates Opportunities for Individuals

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine how trade can be a vehicle for the alleviation of poverty. They conduct Internet research, analyze organizations that help to alleviate poverty, and create a business plan for a micro business for a developing economy.
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Migration

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore migration using the Internet and several pre-chosen websites. In this animal migration instructional activity students divide into groups and complete a lab activity. 
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"Bingo Brown and the Language of Love" by Betsy Byars

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students read the book, "Bingo Brown and the Language of Love" and discuss and define credit, loan, interest, and service credit. They complete activity sheets comparing advantages and disadvantages of using cash and credit.
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Developing Countries - International Monetary Fund

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students access the International Monetary Fund website and explore it in order to research the role of the organization. They use their findings to describe the purpose and activities of the International Monetary Fund.
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Living With Risk: The Human Element of Natural Disasters

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders research the Internet and the given websites to complete this lesson.  In this investigating natural disasters lesson students complete several activities about natural disasters. 
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Defining Moments From the Past: Japanese American Internment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct a mock Congressional Hearing to decide whether or not Japanese Americans who were sent to internment camps during World War II should be provided financial restitution. They research and create a time line of events...
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Exploring Heroism

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students research heroism online. In this heroism lesson, students use the documentary of Heroes of Ground Zero to explore the theme of heroism. Students complete five days of activities to research and participate in activities that...
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International Monetary Fund

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the role of the International Monetary Fund. They participate in activities to discover the funtion of the organization. They also focus on fair trade and cooperation between its members.
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Qualitative and Quantitative Data

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders study the different ways that they have been evaluated over the years.  In this qualitative and quantitative lesson students complete a learning activity while in groups.
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Breaking News English: World Bank Boss Sorry for Payout to Girlfriend

For Students 6th - 9th
In this ESL comprehension worksheet, students read or listen to a passage, complete warm-up activities, then a wide variety of before, during, after and homework activities. Answers are included.
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Parents of Teens Ride Waves of Expenses

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of the cost of raising a child. In this cost of raising a child lesson, students read an article about the expenses associated with teenagers. Students discuss ways in which parents maneuver finances for...
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Fortunes

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars discuss ways people attempt to know their fortune. They study how in Japan people go to a shrine and get their fortunes. They write fortunes for their peers and share in an activity modeled on that of a Japanese Temple...
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What's Happening in Arlington

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students host "College Night 2007 at Ballston Common Mall on Wednesday, October, 10 from 7-9 p.m. They can participate in workshops on college admissions and financial aid. The Parent Academy is a new initiative to assist parents of...
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Insurance Why's and How's

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the primary purposes of a variety of types of insurance. They determine who benefits the most from insurance coverage, and examine the factors that lead to increases and decreases in insurance premiums. The...