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Smooth Sailing: Exploring Insurance and Estate Planning
While purchasing insurance and estate planning may seem like a rather irrelevant topic for high school high schoolers, introducing this concept now can help your learners develop a solid foundation of financial literacy that will support...
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We've Gotcha Covered: The Iowa Insurance Story
Analyze the relationship between financial risks and the growth of the insurance industry in Iowa. Learners work in groups to analyze the major catastrophic events that occurred in their community. Several worksheets are included.
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Dr. Fix-It Subjects: Health, Government
Help your students undertand the critical problems around healthcare. By focusing on the political and private process of healthcare, students will watch a video, analyze issues, and write an essay on their findings. Additionally, they...
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Intro to Insurance
Students discuss the importance of having insurance to protect their car and homes. In groups, they research the different types of insurance available and define new related vocabulary. To end the instructional activity, they...
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Utah's Children's Health Insurance Program (chip): How Well Are We Doing?
Students analyze Utah's CHIP program. They compares it to other states in terms of benefits and customer satisfaction. They examine how rules and regulations at the federal level shape state-level program operations. They research and...
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Right to Health Care
Is health care a right or a privilege? Scholars review pro and con arguments to decide if all Americans should have the right to health care. They also watch informative videos and review information on the United States and...
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Student Handout 6E: Trail of the Tomato Group E: Farm Workers
What is life like for migrant farm workers picking tomatoes at the industrial level? Your class will research and create a visual display describing farm life, work on the farm, and the pressures put on agricultural producers by high...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 5--Consumer Education
Students focus on identifying the differences between automobile, property, and health insurances. They also review the different cost for each and view a variety of brochures. In addition, they chart their findings to visualize all...
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ESL Teacher
In this civics worksheet, students read a paragraph about an ESL teacher who is pregnant. They answer five true/false questions about the paragraph. Students write a paragraph describing one way to solve the problem that is presented in...
Humanities Texas
Primary Source Worksheet: Tip O'Neill, "Epilogue: What I Believe" from Man of the House
The epilogue to former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill's memoir provides readers with an opportunity to practice their informational text reading comprehension skills.
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How Right Are Patients' Rights?
Young scholars examine the healthcare system, including insurance, drug prices, and patient rights. Following a field trip to the children's ward of a hospital, they work in groups to analyze various conditions,problems/diseases,...
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Help or Hype: The Ethics of Bio-Nanotechnology
Ethical concerns are not always black and white. A well-designed lesson presents learners with scenarios for which ethics may come into question. Scholars learn to consider the different sides of a situation and make an unbiased conclusion.
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Bribery And Corruption
In this language arts worksheet, pairs of learners examine, discuss, and complete a variety of activities associated with bribery and corruption. The "conversation starters" are particularly interesting in this worksheet, and should make...
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President Thomas Woodrow Wilson
In this President Thomas Woodrow Wilson activity, students read to assess comprehension skills. In this multiple choice activity, students answer seven question.
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Creating a National Park
Students explore how national parks are created, operate and benefit society by creating a new national park for their state.