Curated OER
First Conditional
In this first conditional verb form worksheet, students learn that this verb form is used to talk about a possible or probable situation. Students complete 8 sentences with first conditional verbs. This is intended for ESL use.
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Mr. Palm:positive/negative Consequences of Human Modification of the Environment
A short slideshow explaining several ways that changes to the environment can have both positive and negative consequences.
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Tripod: Bananas and the Negative Consequences for Costa Rica
Article that discuss the modern banana industry. The problems discussed have been a part of South America since the beginning.
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Spectrum News 1: How Sin Taxes Could Have Unintended Consequences
In addition to explaining what sin taxes are, this article focuses on unintended negative consequences of these taxes.
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Singularity Hub: Managing the Unintended Consequences of Technology
In this article, the author discusses things he learned at the first Unintended Consequences of Technology conference in San Francisco. The goal of the event was to facilitate a thoughtful conversation about the role of advancing...
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Digital Detox: The 19 Negative Effects of Technology in 2019
Discusses many unintended personal and societal consequences of technological progress. (Published October 8, 2019)
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Information Week: Beware It's Unintended Consequences
Many information technologies have unintended consequences. Some call them features, alternate uses or hidden costs/benefits. Sometimes the technologies are best defined by these consequences, rather than by the original intentions....
Econoclass
Econoclass: The Law of Unintended Consequences
In this series of short "headlines", each has a direct goal, but each also has an unintended externality or spillover.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Esc 20: Did Nature Help or Hinder the Building of Railroads in Texas? [Pdf]
In this lesson unit, students examine how Texans altered the environment in order to construct railroads, and the impact of those changes, both positive and negative. They then complete a project where they develop a plan for a railroad...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Energy and the Environment
An experiment illustrating how people's decision to drive instead of using more environmentally friendly means of transportation can lead to negative consequences. Students develop policy recommendations to solve the resulting public...
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: '121 Express' Teaching Guide [Pdf]
121 Express is a novel by Monique Polak for Grades 5-8. It looks at a boy's attempts to become popular by teasing other children on a bus. He then learns to question his choices when he realizes the negative consequences of his actions....
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: What Happened to Railroads?
Between the Civil War and World War II, railroads were one of the nation's most important businesses and an integral part of people's lives. For this lesson, students assume the role of detectives investigating why the rail companies...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Crowding Animals How Close Is Too Close?
In this instructional activity students will explore the concept of crowding as it relates to people and animals. The main purpose of this instructional activity is for students to recognize the possible negative consequences to people...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Drug Abuse and Drug Addiction
Substance use disorders are a class of psychological disorder in which a person continues to use a substance, despite having significant health, social, and other negative consequences as a result of their substance use.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnasota: Columbian Exchange
This resource consists of texts and images dealing with the Columbian Exchange. Its goal is to evaluate the mixed consequences of the Columbian Exchange by examining two of its most infamous elements: small pox and chocolate.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Canals
Since the eighteenth century, canals and canal building have been an important part of Tidewater, North Carolina history. It was seen as the state's best hope for overcoming natural barriers to coastal navigation and mercantile trade....
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Frog and the Ox"
Students can learn a lesson about how being overly concerned with yourself can lead to negative consequences by reading Aesop's fable "The Frog and the Ox." The first version provides literal illustrations for the fable, while the second...
PBS
Pbs: The Fall of the Dollar (Lesson Plan)
A instructional activity that helps student understand how exchange rates are determined and how the value of a nation's currency is connected to its international trade. Young scholars use an article from a time when the U.S. dollar was...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Are Steroids Worth the Risk
Included in this article from Family Doctor is information on what steroids are and how they harm those who take them. Here, you can read general information on steroid abuse and click links to related information.