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The Big Apple

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students study the buying and selling market and how prices are determined for an agricultural product. In this competitive market activity, students study how prices are determined in a market by studying the forces of supply and...
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School Store

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete a worksheet where they calculate costs of items in a school store by using multiplication. In this multiplication lesson plan, 4th graders find the total cost of all the supplies and the cost per item.
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Narratives in the Simple Past

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students recognize the simple past forms in a folktale. They supply some of these forms when asked
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Water Issues on Puerto Rico and Oahu: A Comparison of Two Islands

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore how the tow islands receive and use fresh water. They also address some of the threats to the fresh water supply on each island. Students explore the instructional activity objectives through water cycle models...
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Great Gravity, Batman!

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders are introduced to the effect of gravity on plant growth. They describe the major processes and mechanisms by which plants grow, develop, and supply various products, including energy and nutrition, needed by other...
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Advanced Practical Writing- "Looking for a Product"

For Students 6th - 9th
In this letter writing worksheet, students write a letter to an office supply store explaining that they are looking for a specific product and they would like the store to carry it. They read an exemplar before writing their own letter...
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Efficiency Can Solve a Host of Problems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the concept of efficiency. In this efficiency lesson, students read an article about efficiency in various industries such as health care, retail, and auto repair. High schoolers identify a company that they think...
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Over a Barrel

For Teachers 2nd - 11th
Students examine oil reliance in Britain and around the world. For this oil crisis lesson, students discuss how oil is produced and consider the supply left in the world. Students also examine the influences of oil prices and discover...
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Paying to Use A Scarce Resource: Carbon and Sulfur Taxes

For Students 10th - 12th
In this Paying to Use a Scarce Resource learning exercise, students read background information, analyze a graph, make predictions about the impact of variables and answer questions.
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Campus Parking

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this Campus Parking activity, students try to solve the problem of parking by applying a variety of economic theories to come up with the best (or most equitable) solution.
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School Stationery

For Students K - 2nd
In this school stationery worksheet, students look at 20 examples of school stationery, color each different type of school stationery a specific color and then count how many are in each color. Students put their numbers in the boxes...
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Identifying Your Watershed

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners identify the watershed where they live and how it is related to their own water consumption. In this watershed instructional activity students locate their watershed on their town map. The learners find the source of their water...
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Council for Economic Education

The Role of Government: The Federal Government and Fiscal Policy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Give learners a crash course in balancing the books on the United States federal government level with an economics and government resource. Class members engage in a warm-up discussion and brainstorming session before answering...
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Teach Engineering

Egg-cellent Landing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The classic egg-drop experiment gets a new bounce with an activity that asks pairs to design a lander similar to one used to land a rover on Mars within a fixed budget. The activity provides a great introduction to the idea of...
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Here's My Family

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Family traditions help to instill personal values, social norms, and the warmest of childhood memories. Elementary and secondary learners share their favorite family traditions with a fun diorama project. Using modeling clay, they create...
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Teach Engineering

Fun with Air-Powered Pneumatics

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
How high did the ball go? Engineering teams build a working pneumatic system that launches a ball into the air. The teams vary the amount of pressure and determine the accompanying height of the ball. An extension of building a device to...
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National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Alphas, Betas and Gammas Oh, My!

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Referring to the periodic table of elements, nuclear physics learners determine the resulting elements of alpha and beta decay. Answers are given in atomic notation, showing the atomic symbol, mass, atomic number, and emission particles....
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Scholastic

Study Jams! Tell Temperature

For Students 2nd - 5th
Weather watchers are introduced to temperature scales using step-by-step animated slides. The Home set explains the Fahrenheit scale on a thermometer, while the Watch Out! set introduces Celsius. A Try It! tab contains two guided...
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Weebly

Mini-Media Literacy Project

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Encourage your pupils to think critically about media and the messages media portrays. Starting off with a quick-write about pop culture, this assignment launches into a hands-on, collaborative collage project. After creating collages,...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Investing in Yourself: An Economic Approach to Education Decisions

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What is the difference between physical capital and human capital, and in which should you invest? While considering the concept of return on investment, take a look at the payoffs and consequences of investing in training and...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Prices: The Marketplace’s Communication System

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Explore the dual role of prices as signals and incentives, and discover how prices are determined by buyers and sellers in the United States economy.
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Printable Play Money

For Teachers 1st - 12th
There are endless uses for printable play money in your classroom, and you'll definitely want to check out these well-designed, attractive printables to add to your bank of manipulatives.
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How to Make a Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th
Even reluctant writers will be able to craft poems using the poem making kit provided by this resource.
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Saxon Math Answer Forms

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Tired of hunting through math assignments and assessments trying to find answers? Then this collection of answer forms is just what you need. Providing numbered spaces for students to use when completing worksheets and...

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