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IB History of the Americas Historiography: Limits of the Historical Record
In this historical record instructional activity, students read about analyzing primary sources and then complete the 3 listed activities to create their own historical accounts.
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The Artist as Entrepreneur: Are You Listening?
Students study non-verbal communication through appearance, movements and voice. They evaluate the non-verbal communication of television reporters and then participate in role-play scenarios using non-verbal communication.
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What Can We Do?
Learners generate ideas for products / services based on their own skills and think about how these could be marketed.
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Current Events Quiz #5: January 2002
Quiz your class with 60 true/false questions pertaining to current events. The focus is on current (2002) events occurring in the United States. Some of the questions appear superfluous and have little educational value.
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Nonprofit or For-Profit?
Learners discuss different community organizations. In this philanthropy lesson, students define for-profit and nonprofit organizations. They identify examples of both and discuss the common themes and characteristics of each group.
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Nonprofit or For-Profit?
Middle schoolers explore the concept of philanthropy. In this philanthropy lesson, students compare and contrast nonprofit and for-profit organizations.
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Using Accept/Except in Sentences
In this sentence completion worksheet, learners choose either "accept" or "except" from the drop down menu to complete each of the ten fill-in sentences.
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The Food Safety Team at Restaurants
High schoolers study who is involved in processing and keeping the food safe in dining out situations. They examine the procedures restaurants take for cleanliness and safety while identifying the role of the Food Code in restaurant...
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Fair Trade
Young scholars study the story of Philip Knight and Nike as they examine the issue of free trade. They role play characters from Thailand as they examine workers issues.
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The Hundred Penny Box
Learners analyze the advantages of regular saving and how savings grow with compounding. After reading the story "The Hundred Penny Box", students define the terms "interest," "interest rate," and "compounding." Through several...
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Who's Uninsured in 2007? It's More Than Just the Poor
High schoolers explore the concept of health care. In this health care lesson, students read an article about the financial cost associated with health care. High schoolers discuss costs and resources that people in the article have to...
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Vocabulary Review #123
In this vocabulary review #123 worksheet, students interactively complete 10 sentences by selecting the correct word with immediate online feedback.
Practical Money Skills
Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life
Visa provides a resource that teachers, parents, and students will all enjoy using. There are lesson plans here for all ages, as well as information about spending decisions, budgeting, and money management. Print your own play money,...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Credit Card Mystery
Credit Cards are a risky business these days, especially for students and those holding multiple cards. Interest rates on credit card balances have always been high relative to other rates, for several reasons. Despite this, there is...
Apple
Apple Learning Interchange: Classroom Ideas
Do you use Appleworks in your classroom? Would you like some ideas that others have used? This site presents some exemplary lessons from other teachers.