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Account-Recording Adjusting/Close Entries for Service Business
Young scholars discover how to journal adjustments and post them into general ledger accounts. They explore what a post closing trial balance is and why it is prepared at the end of a fiscal period. They complete an outline and play...
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Accounting-Plant Assets and Depreciation
Students study current assets and plant assets. They post entries to the general ledger and explore the effects of depreciation on plant assets, how to calculate the depreciation expense for an entire fiscal year using the Straight-Line...
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Accounting: Work Sheet for a Service Business
Students explore how to complete work sheets for a service business. They enter transactions that affect the owner's equity of a proprietorship into a worksheet that reviews the business activities for the past fiscal year. They...
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Cash Control Systems
High schoolers are introduced to cash control systems including checking accounts, endorsing and writing checks. In groups, they define a bank statement and practice how to read them. To end the lesson, they discover how to create a...
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Accounting -- Journalizing Purchases and Cash Payments
Students comprehend what a partnership is, how a merchandising business is set up, what a vendor is, how to use invoices, as well as journaling purchases for cash and on account. They get an introduction, review games, and are quizzed on...
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Accounting -- Journalizing Sales and Cash Payments
Students brainstorm a list of what they believe a customer is. In groups, they practice journaling sales to a customer who pays with cash or with credit. To end the instructional activity, they discover the proper way to prove cash...
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Accounting -- Journalizing Transactions
Students are introduced to a five column way to record transactions. In groups, they discuss the importance of source documents when recording the transactions and balancing the account at the end of the month. To end the lesson, they...
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Accounting - Analyzing Transactions to Debit/Credit Parts
Students are introduced to how transactions are analyzed with debits and credits. In groups, they complete a T-chart in which the account increases with credits and decreases with debits. To end the lesson, they analyze the various...
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Careers: Accounting and Business Ethics
Students explore careers in accounting and examine various job opportunities. In addition, they assess the ethics associated with the business world. The lesson concludes with online games and a quiz covering job opportunities and...
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Chicken Pox Math
Second graders are read a story about a boy with chicken pox. As a class, they discuss what to do when you have a contagious disease and identify who in the class has had chicken pox. Using this information, they create a graph and use...
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Interior Design Techniques in Black and White
Students create interior designs using white paper and black ink. In the process, they incorporate all four line techniques - horizontal, vertical, curved, and diagonal. While the designs do not need to be tangible representations of...
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Diet: Find the Carbohydrates
Students discover and discuss the functions of carbohydrates. Once they have taken notes and completed worksheets, they perform experiments using iodine to test for starch. Lesson topics include how carbohydrates are processed by the...
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Color Wheel Project
Pupils review the relationship between primary and secondary colors. As a class, they are introduced to the tertiary colors and use photographs to show them in a room design. To end the activity, they create a new color wheel with...
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Dream House
Students complete a collage depicting what they would like in their Dream House. They think about the home of their dreams and pretend that they can have anything and everything that they want in a house. Find pictures from magazines...
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Elements Picture Assignment
Students identify the basic structural and decorative designs, create examples of line (horizontal/vertical/curved/diagonal), as well as identify and explain the difference between shape and form. Then, they identify and explain the use...
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Elements Video
Students watch a video on the elements of design. During the video, they take notes and complete a worksheet on the material. To end the lesson, they review their answers to the worksheet and view examples of each element of design in a...
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Measuring/Cutting
Students practice basic sewing procedures such as measuring, using cutting board with grid, cutting using rotary cutter, threading sewing machine, and sewing straight line and backstitch. Students then cut fabric into squares to common...
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Positive & Negative Space
Students review and differentiate between positive and negative space, view teacher sample, and cut out shapes to create puzzle-like picture in which one color of paper represents positive space and one color represents negative space.
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Team Shape Picture/Shape Creation
Learners study the concept of shape--two-dimensional objects--and have hands-on experience creating pictures using a variety of shapes. They identify, explain and use the basic elements of design and recognize the effect different...
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Science: Flight Aerodynamics
Students apply the principles of aerodynamics by constructing styrofoam airplanes. By using simple tools and materials, they improve their spatial visualization abilities while increasing motor skills. After small groups of students...
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Accounting --Forming and Solving Business Organizations
Students identify and explain three forms of business ownership: Sole Proprietorship, Partnership and Corporation. They review what a proprietorship is, the advantages and disadvantages of a proprietorship, how to form and dissolve a...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Water, Now and Then
Students describe, orally or in writing, ways people have depended on water during different periods of history. This nearly 500 page document is rich with diverse lessons and activities that will transform your young learners into...
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LESSON 4: Looks Like Respect, Sounds Like Respect, Feels Like (K-2)
Students show competency in Art objectives by designing and creating props (glasses-looks, ears-headband, and [feel] texture board) for each of the given senses.
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Assistive Technology
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the use of technology in order to help students with special needs. They take part in a lesson that is designed to help a specific student with an Individual Education Plan and focus...