Young scholars identify careers that are nontraditional for their gender.

High schoolers discuss their goals for the short and long term. They develop plans to help them achieve their goals. They bring all of their plans together and publish it in a school newspaper.

High schoolers view a video about the values that are represented by sports teams. They write a paper about the connection between sports and social values. They share their responses with the class.

Students investigate and examine ukiyo-e, or Japanese woodblock prints, from the Edo period (1615-1868) in Japan and use this gained knowledge to compare Japanese culture to American societal trends.

Students investigate the lives of families in two different centuries. They compare the 1600's to the 1800's. Students write an essay about the differences and how they developed in history. Special attention is paid to the external...

Students write personal facts on a photograph of themselves to create a Primary Source. They then define Primary Source and list examples as a class of places where they could find primary sources. They also discuss the importance of...

In this math activity, students engage in a mental math activity. Student think a number and follow several computations with that number and always come up with the answer 9. Students discuss why this happens.

Students collect data and graph or chart the information. In this data organization lesson, students poll their classmates about certain topics and chart or graph the information to show the results of their research.

Covers skills that may be needed to work in leisure and tourism.

Students will to organize data from the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Is leisure time really shrinking?," into two scatter plots and determine the quadratic model for each scatter plot. Students will determine if these graphs intersect and learn...

Students will have the opportunity to organize data from the USA TODAY Snapshot "Is leisure time really shrinking?" into two scatter plots and determine the quadratic model for each scatter plot.

This article offers a detailed discussion of the longtime collaboration between Lanford Wilson and Marshall Mason. The article provides a great deal of quoted material from both men.

Read about how the homesteaders on the American frontier added a little levity to their otherwise harsh frontier life, and in particular how women, how spent much time at home, worked to add variety to their lives. From a companion essay...

This is a virtual gallery of Victorian life themed into daily life, toys and Victorian legacy. Students can ask a Victorian child a question amongst other activities, and there is a teacher's area with ideas and downloadable resources.

Learn how different economic classes in urban centers spent their leisure time in the late 19th century. Includes a good discussion of machine politics and the role it played in the lives of the lower classes, as well as its negative...

This Fordham University site offers sociologist Thorstein Veblen's views on conspicuous consumption, taken from his work, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study on Economic Institutions.