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Korea in Your Community
High schoolers identify Korean products sold in the US and become aware of Korea's importance in international trade.
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Australia and Argentina: A Study in Contrast
High schoolers study world events and their effect on economic growth. They research and interpret graphs to determine explanations for economic growth. Students compare the World Wars and the Great Depression to the growth of Argentina...
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5th Grade Social Studies
In this social studies worksheet, 5th graders answer multiple choice questions about economics including exports and imports, goods and services, and more. Students complete 22 questions.
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Math is All Around Us
Students photograph examples of math vocabulary. In this digital math lesson, students use software to highlight a math concept. Students record narration to give voice to their concept.
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The US-Taiwan Textile Trade Case
Learners explore the issues of free trade and protectionism by role-playing. In particular, they will learn how these terms apply to an understanding of U.S.-Taiwan trade in textiles. After a lecture/demo, students break into groups for...
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Fruit or Vegetable?
Watermelon is a vegetable? A tomato is a fruit? Believe it or not, this debate is decades old. Groups examine rulings by the US Supreme Court, the USDA, and state statutes before developing their own criteria to use when labeling...
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Japan's Economic Miracle
High schoolers explore the concepts of price and demand. In groups, pupils simulate the purchase and selling of land in Japan. They create a loan, and make decisions to buy or sell as the economic market fluctuates. Classmates discuss...
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Project Helping Hands
Students work as a team to help improve the quality of life in rural Africa and develop a plan how to spend grant money the United Nations has provided them with.
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Agriculture Day
In this Agriculture Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey, and...
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Breaking News English: Japan to Resume U.S. Beef Imports
In this English learning exercise, students read " Japan to Resume U.S. Beef Imports," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Cotton Production and Milling
Students examine cotton production and milling. They compete in a hand-ginning contest to realize how difficult it was to separate the seeds from the fibers of cotton. They discuss why Eli Whitney's cotton gin was an important invention.
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International Trade Reality Worksheet
In this international trade activity, students respond to 21 short answer questions regarding free trade, trade deficits, and trade balance.
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Seventh Grade Social Studies Test
In this Georgia social studies assessment activity, 7th graders respond to 30 multiple choice questions based on 7th grade social studies skills.
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Fifth Grade Social Studies Multiple Choice Practice
For this grade 5 social studies worksheet, 5th graders complete a set of 17 multiple choice questions about a variety of topics. An answer key is included.
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Global Geography of Economics: The Indiana Steel Industry
Students are introduced to how steel is made and investigate the importance of the steel industry. They participate in a role-play that explores the concepts of taxes, tariffs and imports vs. domestic production.
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Global Geography of Economics: the Indiana Steel Industry
Students research and identify positive and negative effects of imported steel on the Indiana steel industry.
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Increasing Multicultural Understanding Through Folk Literature
Students read folktales from around the world comparing two of them using a computer generated Venn diagram. They create a game based on a folktale and use software to create a listening library of folktales.
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NAFTA Trade Unit
Students research the geography, economics and government of Canada and how that affects US/Canadian trade relations. For this NAFTA lesson, students play a game, read about Canadian history, and creat a graph.
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My World Wide Tour of Spanish Speaking Countries
Students organize a two week travel plan through Spanish speaking countries all over the world. plan their flight schedules, accommodations, and tours of cultural events. Students compute the total cost of their trip.
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GeoHive Information Hunt
In this geography skills worksheet, students respond to 30 short answer questions about world geographic features and locations.
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AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
The student will locate countries on a world map from which we import foods that our climate prevents us from growing locally.1. Discuss the term "export." Divide students into groups of four. Give the groups
five minutes to brainstorm...
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Seventh Grade Social Studies Quiz
For this Georgia social studies assessment worksheet, 7th graders respond to fifteen multiple choice questions based on seventh grade social studies skills.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Early American Trade With China: Total Value of u.s Imports and Exports [Pdf]
Chart of total value of imports and exports of selected years from 1790 to 1900 in dollars. There are also questions that go along with the charts/graphs.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Economic Connections [Pdf]
"Economic Connections" is a one-page nonfiction passage about the economics of importing and exporting goods among countries to get what people need. It is followed by an open-ended question that requires students to provide evidence...