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4 Action Initiative: Curriculum: Learning From the Challenges of Our Times

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Download or view a complete unit of study on the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001. Lessons are provided for the elementary, middle, and high school levels and include reproducible handouts, teaching ideas, and additional...
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PBS

Pbs Frontline: Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero

For Students 9th - 10th
A year after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, PBS FRONTLINE explores what America saw on September 11th. For many people, the most difficult questions that remain are not about politics, military strategy, or...
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PBS

Pbs Frontline: Sacred Ground: The Struggle to Design the Freedom Tower

For Students 9th - 10th
The companion website for an episode of FRONTLINE that investigates plans for developing the site of the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center illustrates the design through pictures, video, and interactive models. Includes...
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New York Times

New York Times: How the Towers Stood and Fell

For Students 9th - 10th
A multimedia graphic explains how certain structural elements of the World Trade Center helped to delay its collapse when it was attacked on September 11, 2001, whereas other elements probably sped up the towers' fall.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Conference Series: September 11: Teaching Contemporary History

For Students 9th - 10th
A Smithsonian Conference based on the remembrance and teaching of the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center. Recordings and videos of key speakers from each session are available along with printable conference resources...
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The Sonic Memorial Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the World Trade Center through sounds, interviews, personal story audios, and pictures. While there is a focus on the events and aftermath of September 11, 2001, many of the stories speak about life in and around the World...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 9: Trade Balances in Historical and International Context

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Analyze graphs of the current account balance and the merchandise trade balance, Identify patterns in US trade surpluses and deficits, Compare the US trade surpluses and...
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Trade Summit Protesters Battle in Quebec City 2001

For Students 9th - 10th
An American left-wing website reports on the protesters in Quebec City in 2001 that accompanied the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) Summit hosted by Prime Minister Jean Chretien. Offers students a glimpse at the wide variety...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 9: Intl Trade & Capital Flows: Measuring Trade Balances

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain merchandise trade balance, current account balance, and unilateral transfers, Identify components of the US current account balance, and Calculate the merchandise...
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Robert Schenk, PhD

Cyber Economics: Comparative Advantage

For Students 9th - 10th
Article with charts and links to related material discusses how free trade is a result of comparative advantage, and how consumers can consume beyond their original production possibilities frontier if they specialize and trade.
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: International Exchange Rates

For Students 9th - 10th
This student-teacher resource discusses international exchange rate and shows how to calculate different currencies around the world.
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BBC

Bbc: Bill Clinton's Economic Legacy

For Students 9th - 10th
This vast BBC article covers almost everything about Clinton's economic legacy including the economic boom, budget surplus, and international trade deals.
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Fact Monster

Fact Monster: North American Free Trade Agreement

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides an easy to understand explanation of North American Free Trade Agreement. Read this brief article to learn about and understand NAFTA.
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Tutor2u

Tutor2u: Sources of Comparative Advantage

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes how comparative advantage and specialization cause international trade.
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Council for Economic Education

Econedlink: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments

For Students 9th - 10th
This video teaches the concepts of Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments. The balance of trade is calculated by subtracting imports from exports. The balance of payments includes payments related to exports and imports of goods;...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Renaissance Trade and Exchange

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders will research the development of international trade and the resultant cultural exchanges during the Renaissance.
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Other

The American Interest: China's Place in u.s. Foreign Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
China's remarkable aggregation of national power over the past 35 years has been a source of wonderment: to economists, who have been surprised by that country's consistently high rate of growth; to political scientists, who are at a...
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Office of the United States Trade Representative

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore this site and learn about the inner workings of the Office of the United States Trade Representatives. Use this site to view the hot topics in Trade negotiations around the world.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Economics U$a: 21st Century Edition

For Students 9th - 10th
A micro and macroeconomics course for 21st century learners. 28 half-hour videos sessions with text and guides regarding markets, firms, supply and demand, perfect competition and inelastic demand, economic efficiency, monopolies,...
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Economic Cold War

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a loosely related collection of primary source documents that discuss economic issues during the Cold War period. These documents are all varied in topic and geographical coverage, ranging from the 1950s to the 1980s, and coming...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Where Did You Come From?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site is an excellent activity in which students explore the economic interdependence shared between the United States and Chile. Students will learn about the products imported from Chile and determine the reasons for trade between...
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Curated OER

A View on Cities: Barcelona: Barcelona World Trade Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Barcelona World Trade Center
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Curated OER

A View on Cities: Dresden: World Trade Center

For Students 9th - 10th
World Trade Center (Dresden)
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Curated OER

New York Times: World Trade Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Page offers a number of articles, video and other multi-media covering the World Trade Center. Some of the resources are free, however, to have full access you have to register with the New York Times. Registration is free.

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