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Taxes: Where Does Your Money Go?
Learners explore the concept of taxes. In this tax lesson, students investigate types of taxes and deductions taken out of a paycheck before they see it. Learners calculate the tax on a given dollar amount. Students discuss 401(k)s...
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IT IS ABOUT SUPPLY AND DEMAND.
Students learn that the price of an item is defined by its supply and demand. In this instructional activity students graph the relationship between demand and supply of various products, students also consider hidden costs.
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Analyze This
Sixth graders use a video and the internet to determine whether a game is fair or unfair. In this probabilities lesson plan, 6th graders determine the fairness of a game based on the probabilities of the outcomes.
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Which Came First-Democracy or Growth?
Students investigate economic growth and standard of living. In this economics lesson plan, students investigate the GDP per capita and how it affects the economy. Students differentiate nominal and real GDP.
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Slope Right Up
Students use triangles to find the length and slope of each side. After connecting the vertices, they add points based on their specific instructions. They use the Pythagorean Theorem to complete a worksheet to end the lesson.
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Filling Empty Pockets: Borrowing, Loans, and Credit
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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Sorting
Students explore how books are sorted in a library. In this sorting lesson, students play a game where they have to fill the shelves with books that share a common theme. Students compare this game to a real library. Students discuss how...
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Focusing on Lenses
Students explore scientific observations by examining the parts of a microscope. In this optics lesson, students discuss the importance of a focal point and focal distance when utilizing an optical device such as a microscope. Students...
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Circumscribed Polygons
Students investigate polygons and construct ferris wheels. In this geometry lesson plan, students create a circle and differentiate properties of circles and polygons. They compare the relationship between angles and circumscribed polygons.
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Triangle Side Lengths and Angles Measures
Students identify missing sides and angles. In this geometry lesson, students use triangular theorems to identify the missing sides. They use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the different ratios of each side.
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Median of a Trapezoid
Learners find the median of trapezoids and other polygons. In this geometry lesson, students identify important properties of trapezoids. They create trapezoids and polygons using Cabri software.
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Building Storm Shelters
Sixth graders explore area and perimeter. In this online interactive area and perimeter instructional activity, 6th graders investigate why the perimeter of rectangles can vary considerably even when the area is held constant. Students...
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Two-Dimensional Drawings from Three Dimensional Objects
Sixth graders identify and replicate two dimensional illustrations of three dimensional objects. In this spatial visualization instructional activity, 6th graders practice viewing objects from various sides. Student participate in...
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Wild, Wild Weather: Severe Storms
Second graders research dangerous weather and how they can stay safe. In this environment lesson, 2nd graders view video clips and research the Internet to identify the different types of severe weather storms. Students complete a...
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Watershed Model
Students view a presentation of water and land and how we need to protect our water resources. In this water lesson plan, students discuss how we rely on water, and complete activities in all subjects related to water.
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Are You Thirsty? The Effects of Pollution on Drinking Water
Discuss the availability of clean, plentiful water and the causes of water pollution. In groups, sixth graders discuss problem-solving methods for keeping water clean. They explore the function of water treatment plants and perform...
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The Big Apple
Students study the buying and selling market and how prices are determined for an agricultural product. In this competitive market instructional activity, students study how prices are determined in a market by studying the forces of...
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Percent Rate of Change
If mathematicians know the secret to compound interest, why aren't more of them rich? Young mathematicians explore compound interest with exponential functions in the twenty-seventh installment of a 35-part module. They calculate future...
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Transformations of the Quadratic Parent Function
Efficiently graph a quadratic function using transformations! Pupils graph quadratic equations by completing the square to determine the transformations. They locate the vertex and determine more points from a stretch or shrink and...
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Get the Picture!
Astronomers practice downloading data from a high-energy satellite and translate the data into colored or shaded pixels. As a hands-on activity, they use pennies to simulate high-energy satellite data and they convert their penny...
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Inventions
Use this lesson plan to discuss inventions that have changed your class's world and have impacted society. Middle schoolers investigate important inventions of their time and design an invention in a simulated business atmosphere. Modify...
Agriculture in the Classroom
Roll of the Genes
Animal reproduction in sheep and cattle is explored with the help of Punnet squares. Scholars employ tools using probability to conclude the color of wool a sheep's offspring will have. Acting as animal geneticists, pupils then take...
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Ecological Footprint
How does your lifestyle measure up in terms of your ecological footprint? Young ecologists examine their impact on the planet using an insightful online calculator. A short quiz asks users to rank the size of their homes, their energy...
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The Bean Growth Experiment
Fifth graders use modern technologies which allow them to gain a new, dynamic, and intersting understanding of themselves, their community, and the world. They focus on environmental education and the effect of the environment on plant...
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