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Calculations at the Crazy Cookie Company

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners explore matrix multiplication and problem solve using matrix multiplication. They design a table that will display cost and profit for three cookie stores. 
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Quadratic Equations

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Through a variety of physical and theoretical situations, learners are led through the development of some of the deepest concepts in high school mathematics. Complex numbers, the fundamental theorem of algebra and rational exponents...
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Saving and Investing: Building Wealth for Financially-Secure Futures

For Teachers 9th - 12th
While spending is fun, saving for a retirement is the future. Young adults learn about the importance of saving and different opportunities to do so during their adulthood. 
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Is there such a thing as too much profit?

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders discuss the concepts of value-of-service pricing and cost-of service pricing. They debate the reasons for and legitimacy of price differences in service. # students predict the effectiveness of the 1887 Interstate...
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Case Study: Should the Results of the Human Genome Project be Sold for Profit?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate a case study and discuss whether scientists working on the Human Genome Project should be allowed to patent their work. They consider ethical and legal issues, and determine who owns genetic information.
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Words in the News Live8 Performances' Profit Question

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete word work and vocabulary building activities before reading an online article. They examine how changing the stress on a syllable can change the meaning and pronunciation of a word.
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How Can Business Profit from Tariffs? p1

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students investigate the impact of tariffs on businesses and consumers during the 1880s by looking at a political cartoon, solving a short math problem and comparing protectionism in the 1980's to protectionism in the 1880's.
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Emissions Trading

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students produce manufactured good, barter for sales, encounter government officials, make choices about emissions, trade carbon credits and share findings in order to understand how carbon trading could affect industry from an economic...
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Giving Them the Business

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students work in small groups of 4-5 students to form a business, create, market and sell their product, and track their expenses and profits. They experience the roles of the producer, distributor, and consumer of goods.
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Community Helpers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate community helpers. In this communities lesson, students compare and contrast for-profit and non-profit jobs and choose one job to illustrate on paper.
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Let's Play the Stock Market

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the basics about investing in the stock market, begin to see how the knowledge of decimals, fraction, and percents can be applied to financial profit or loss if investing in the market, and track their stocks using...
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Schools for Sale

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the concept of for-profit companies running schools. In this privatizing schools lesson, students simulate a meeting of school board members, community leaders, and other stakeholders to determine the privatization of a...
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Income Statement

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students demonstrate the proper way to prepare an income statement. They calculate a company's Gross Profit, Operating Expenses, Income from Operation before tax and Net Income, then determine the company's net income or net loss during...
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Module 12-Self-Employment Income and the Self-Employment Tax

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners explain self-employment income and the self-employment tax. They distinguish between an employee and an independent contractor and explain how to compute and report self-employment profit.
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Cha-Ching!

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Pupils play the Pinky's Create a Card game for practice. Students create a class store where they experiment in the roles as vendor and consumer. Pupils use play money to buy and sell various products, while keeping track of spending and...
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Mining and Land Reclamation - A Classroom Simulation

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students simulate mining mineral resources using cookies. In this earth science lesson, students analyze the cost and profits in mining. They write a lab report about the activity.
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There's No Business Like Bank Business

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a role play where they see how a bank works and how interest is paid by having money in the bank. In this bank lesson plan, students operate a bank and learn about saving, accounts, deposits, withdrawals,...
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War on Drugs, "RIP"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch the episode of Investigative Reports examines the losing battle countries worldwide are conducting against the drug trade. Because of the lucrative profits of the drug trade, authorities cannot end the illegal trafficking...
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The Entrepreneur's Game

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore the basic principles of the US free enterprise system. They examine the basic principles of the US free enterprise system including profit motive, voluntary exchange, private property rights, and competition.
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The Game of Business

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice the economic concepts of scarcity and opportunity cost. They imagine creating their own businesses and brainstorm what they need to know in order to determine when the business is profitable.
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Mercury Emissions: "Cap and Trade" Game

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the role of government in protecting the environment, and participate in a game where they run a profitable or unprofitable power plant in changing market conditions. They summarize the pros and cons of emissions credit...
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DRY WELLS THAT ARE NOT SO DRY

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze how producers respond to incentives and allocate their scare resources to maximize profits. They write persuasive letters to government officials and others. They read "Dry Wells That Are Not So Dry." They take notes...
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Hopper Hunt: IPM Decision-making in Alfalfa

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe migrations and life cycle pattersn of a key alfalfa pest, the Porato Leafhopper. They define the Economic Inquiry Level and Economic Threshold. Students evaluate data in relation to profit as it applies to IPM. They...
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Making Money

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners form a company to see it they can create a product that can sell and make a profit for the company. Working in small groups, they create a business plan and gather the resources to make their product. Students market and sell...

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