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Feeding Facilitation: A lesson in Evolution and Sociobiology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students simulate foraging by searching for and gathering toothpicks. Feeding Facilitation is an attempt to show the relationship between energy costs of foraging and predator avoidance with flocking behavior and their relationship to...
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Your First Paycheck Has Finally Arrived! Decisions...decisions...decisions...

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students visit the mall to get prices on favorite shoe brands. They access the internet to find the selling price of these stocks and look for up to date financial information. They experience good business sense as opposed to emotional...
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Mock Trial, A Service Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students present a courtroom simulation demonstrating common good, decision making model, opportunity cost, limited resources, pursuit of happiness and civic writing.
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Aztec Culture

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the Aztec culture in Mexico. They focus on their religious practices. They write a goal to personally sacrifice something. They also write about the costs and benefits of a sacrifice.
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Introduction to Economics

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of unlimited wants and limited resources. They participate in an activity using money to purchase goods and services. Students evaluate benefits and costs resulting from personal...
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A Trip to the Toy Store

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize and identify the value of a penny, nickel and dime. They spend play money in a simulated toy store and match their coins to the purchase price of a toy of their choice.
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Discovering Perimeter

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders apply perimeter measurement to items found in newspapers and calculate the cost in terms of feet or yards. They share answers and explanations with classmates.
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What's the Area?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use area to calculate the cost for new flooring. They find the area of a square or rectangle. Calculating Area problems and worksheet are attached.
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Finding the Area of Triangles

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders apply the formula for finding the area of a triangle to various problems. They work real life problems for finding the area of a bathroom and the cost of tiling it. They play a game, Triangle Bingo, where they match...
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Still Waters

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students construct a still to turn seawater into drinking water. They estimate the cost of distilling it. They investigate ways to make the conversion more efficient. They track the source of their home drinking water and make a map of...
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The Lemonade Stand

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars play The Lemonade Stand game online to explore business world; students make decisions about cost, profit, and advertising, and complete worksheet answering questions about choices they made as a producer.
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Historical Fashions - Interdisciplinary Experience, Art & Social Studies

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders research styles, construction, fabrics, colors, and cost of Colonial era clothing. They create a life-sized model of themselves wearing Colonial period clothing and write a report about the clothes they designed.
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Road Trip!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students plan a road trip, choosing destinations to visit and determining how much the trip cost. They create a journal that illustrates how they got from one place to another, and includes an expense sheet for each stretch.
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Where Will You Go?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders participate in a WebQuest in which they calculate mileage and cost per person for a trip to an amusement park. They explore various websites, and produce an Excel spreadsheet.
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Real Family Genetics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research genetic disease and mutation causing traits in family pedigrees simulated in a class activity. Students are each assigned a genetic trait and a "spouse" and must conduct research on their traits and the probability of...
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Benefits Of Medical Insurance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers compare and contrast the cost of medical care with or without insurance. Students differntiate between public and private clinics. They write a description of an ache or pain to share with a medical professional. This...
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Science NetLinks: Changing World 1: Endocrine Disruptors

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate how environmental surprises and endocrine disruptors influence perceptions of benefits and costs. The decisions of science are under these type of influences and must be thought out with a definite method.
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Shop 'Til You Drop: Food for Thought

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers shop in a virtual grocery store. Students choose items for their shopping cart and check out. They determine the tax, delivery fees, and total cost. Middle schoolers discuss the advantages and disadvantages of shopping...
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Electronic Portfolio

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a CD-ROM using iMovie as a way of applying for a college. They develop an electronic portfolio. They reflect on their high school academic career by examining their best work. They investigate the costs of college.
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Studying Plant Development Through Metabolic Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A hands-on activity which allows young scholars to learn about cellular respiration. This lesson contains a range of investigations testing the rates of cellular respiration to demonstrate the relationship between metabolic rates of...
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Goal Setting

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice setting goals that are short and long term. They look at the goals for the cost of resources like time to reach each goal, the pros and cons are then weighed to know the context. Then the students write a reflective...
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Which College is For Me?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students use the Internet to research colleges. They explore basic college terms, room and board, tuition costs, and areas of study. Using computer software, students create a brochure about their chosen college. They create a visual...
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To Be Or Not To Be, Soaked

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students test the absorbency of paper towels by dropping water onto the center of each towel and then find the surface area of the stain using a transparent grid. With both pieces of data, students analyze the results of their absorbency...
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Space Conservation

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students participate in a class discussion concerning the reasons for space conservation such as no unused land available. Following class discussion, they work in groups to design buildings using allotted amount of area in the most cost...

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