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Math Nutrition

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use nutritional knowledge to plan balanced meals and use grocery store flyers to calculate costs of the meals. They create word problems using these flyers.
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Blank Pricing Your Craft Worksheet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this blank pricing your craft worksheet, students calculate labor, direct, transportation, and overhead costs as well as total wholesale price to arrive a retail price for a product by using the chart provided.
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Materials, Let's Do the Life Cycle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine environmental and social impacts of products that consumers buy. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students play a game that requires them to consider real costs of products. Middle schoolers consider the...
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COULD YOU START A BUSINESS?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students learn how a business starts and finds financial independence. In this lesson, students learn the struggle of financial management, the costs of running a business and how to keep a budget.
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When Getting There is More Than Half the Battle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the 'Design for the Other 90%' exhibition about low-cost solutions to give the "other 90% of the world's population" access to services and amenities many of us take for granted. In this technology design...
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Get the Picture?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the movement to design low-cost solutions for the world's population and create a graph to represent the information. In this design and graphing lesson, students review the concepts of graphing and visit the...
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The Euro: Classroom Exercises

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine trade between the United States and the European Union. In this costs of goods lesson, students conduct research to identify the costs of goods made in the EU in America and the cost of goods made in America in the EU.
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Supply Chain Management

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners identify the steps of production. In this supply chain lesson, students determine how businesses monitor production and trace the supply chain of products they own. Learners also discuss ethical issues related to the supply chain.
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The Future of China's Economic System

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore China's economic system and the future of the system. They define economic terms, research websites to find examples of how China is developing into a mixed economy system and how it competes with the U.S. for...
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Culminating Alternative Energy Project

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Pupils work in teams to complete an alternative energy project. In this alternative energy lesson, students are assigned a city and decide on the most appropriate alternative energy source for their city. Pupils use maps from Google...
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Digging It - A Garden That Is

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars plan, design, and create a school/community garden.  In this planning, designing, and creating a school/community garden lesson, students research materials needed to start a garden.  Young scholars determine the cost of...
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It's Not Easy Being Green

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students complete a unit that focuses on their school's waste production. They conduct a litter survey, collect the waste produced in their classroom for a week and generate a waste-audit, and identify how their school can minimize...
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The True Cost of Coffee

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the economic, health, and environmental risks of a one-crop economy in the developing world. They explain how or why it can be challenging for people of one culture to understand the lifestyle of a different society.
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Trade Allows Us To Buy Products at Reasonable Prices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover that trade allows us to buy products at reasonable prices. They research information based on the group they belong to. They participate in a debate based on the different positions.
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Is the Price Right?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners explore the techniques used by advertisers to sell goods, increase their awareness of consumer habits, differentiate between information and selling, and become aware of what motivates them to buy products.
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The Price of European Commodities in 1803

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars peruse actual price lists of European commodities dealers Strobel and Martini of Bordeaux, France. Each student creates a sales receipt of items that they have purchased from the French Brokerage firm. Students explore...
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The Cost of Progress

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine the cost of progress from the 1500's to the 1800's around the world and create informative websites based upon their research. This lesson is intended for a high school World History class and uses the Keynote...
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Recording Artist and MP3 Players

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore the concept of being a recording artist. In this recording artist lesson, students determine the costs of producing various music products such as a demo tape, 8-track tape, and a record deal. Students discuss supply,...
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Fluctuations in the Price of Oil

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students examine the fluctuating gas prices and the effect it has on the Canadian economy by reviewing an online database that contains information on the retail price of gas for Canada's largest cities.
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Finding Coal Products in Your Home

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify items in their homes that come from coal. They divide into groups and decide as a group which items are made from coal by-products. They then divide their poster board into three columns and label the first - items made...
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Al Mercado

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars investigate the concept of a market. They produce a dramatization to simulate the daily activities found inside. Students ask questions about the price, location, and use of items. The acting strengthens communication...
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Materials: Hidden Costs, Mapping the Source and Cost of Raw Materials.

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students map connections among raw materials. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students design strategies to minimize the use of raw materials and discuss how to use more sustainable materials.
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Costs of Living

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the effects of rising oil and natural gas prices on family spending and saving habits. They design a board game intended to help people save.
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Cigarette Smoking

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the monetary cost associated with smoking cigarettes. They calculate the life expectancy associated with how many cigarettes are smoked a day. They complete story problems as well.

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