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Filling Empty Pockets: Borrowing, Loans, and Credit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine credit components and how each works within our economy today. In this financial literacy lesson, students explore credit terms and make decisions based on real credit card offers that they find in their on line research.
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When Am I Ever Going to Use this?

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students solve problems using equations and properties of integers. In this algebra lesson plan, students solve problems using ratio and proportion and graph their answers on a coordinate plane. They solve word problems using geometry.
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Pair 'Em Up!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders verify the validity of Punnett squares. They simulate a real-world situation by drawing chromosomes from a paper bag and track the data.
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The Divider (whole number remainders)

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use the instructional activity to support division of whole numbers where there is either no remainder or whole number remainders. They are able to slit division problems into parts using known multiplication and division...
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Financial Statements For A Proprietorship

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to how to successfully set up a propietorship. Individually, they complete a pre- and post-quiz to determine how much they know about the material. To end the instructional activity, they practice reading a...
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The Stock Market-Tracking and Picking Stocks

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students interpret the stock market. They pick preferable stocks based on price to earnings ratios listed in the quotes. They practice using fractions and decimals to calculate the cost of selling and buying various stocks using...
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GUM: More, Less, or the Same?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners confirm the law of conservation of matter by weighing chewing gum before and after it is chewed.
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What are the Chances: A Game of Chance!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders experiment with dice, playing cards, pennies and computer-generated simulations to calculate probability. They use compiled data to make predictions.
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Who Gets Eaten? A Study of Natural Selection

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders represent a new predator on a population of colored worms. They mathematically determine the effect of the new predator on the survival and reproductive rates of the worms, simulating natural selection at work.
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Comparing Fractions

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students discuss the nature of fractions and compare fractions based on a similar whole to determine relative size.
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Stock: The Rise and Fall of Stock

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine the uncertainties of investing in the stock market. They look at how company profits, good or bad news, and new competition affect share prices. They write and discuss journal entries about share prices before completing...
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Computing Discounts

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this computing discounts worksheet, pupils with a partner problem solve and calculate the answers to ten word problems and mathematical equations involving sales price, discounts, percents and decimals.
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Watt Power

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students discuss the concept of power and the meaning of watts.  For this experimental lesson students divide into groups, record data and calculate the results. 
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Metrics

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners discover the need for a universal measurement system. They practice using basic metric units in measuring distance and weight.
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Reno's Dilemma

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars analyze information to determine good and bad debt. They calculate percentages when given interest and return on investment information. They also analyze positive and negative debt/return information to determine the...
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Graph Both Crusts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders calculate the angles and construct a pie graph of the percentages of the elements in the continental and oceanic crusts. Then they analyze the results. They can be assigned the task of researching the percentages.
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TE Activity: A Merry-Go-Round for Dirty Air

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students observe a simulation of a cyclone to examine a method of pollutant recovery in cleaning industrial air pollution. They examine how engineers develop technology to reduce air pollution and determine percentages for technology...
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Who Hid the Milk Products?

For Teachers K
Students study milk products and learn their health benefits. In this milk products lesson, students discuss dairy products. Students participate in a game of milk product identification. Students also discuss categorizing milk by their...
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Concept: Percent ... A Special Fraction

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this percent worksheet, learners review and study what percent means, what percent strips are, making sense of percents and estimating percents. Students complete ten word problems.
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Escape The Hangman

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the concept of probability. They use the game of hangman to create engagement and context for conducting the instructional activity. They create a spreadsheet with data that is given. Students make predictions...
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Cannot Buy Me Love

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students investigate the concepts that are related to finance and how it is used in the world. They take part in activities that are focused around the use of a spreadsheet while using a T-chart to simulate a ledger of credits and debits.
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Create A Question

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore mathematical problem solving. Given a case problem, students write a rule to solve problems involving decimal multiplication and division. They invent problems, share them with the class, and solve other student's...
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The Difference Bar 2

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use Internet software, The Difference Bar, to work out the difference between two numbers by breaking numbers into parts. Students use mental strategies to work out the difference between any 2 two-digit numbers. Students...
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Take Away Bar 2

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Learners use an Internet tool, The Take-Away Bar" to solve subtraction problems. They use mental strategies to subtract a two-digit number from a larger two-digit number. Students write and solve subtraction problems. They describe...