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Council for Economic Education

You Can Bank On This! (Part 3)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars use a chart to show how gaining interest is a beneficial part of having a savings account. In this banking lesson plan, students also learn about the workings of an ATM and a checking account.
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Life Cycle- The Human Body

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine the life cycle of the human. In this human life cycle instructional activity, 7th graders discuss the many different stages of the human life cycle. Students use pictures from magazines to create a representation...
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Happy Habitats

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore different habitats. For this habitat lesson, students investigate four different habitats through participating in a WebQuest. Young scholars create an animal web using Kidspiration or a video documentary upon...
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First Things First: Using the Newspaper to Teach the Freedoms of the First Amendment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars use the newspaper as a tool to make connections about what the five freedoms guarantee in the First Amendment. In this first amendment lesson plan, students analyze events in the newspaper to form conclusions about the...
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Infectious Diseases: Hepatitis B and Tuberculosis

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students discover the different sources of pathogens that cause diseases. In this health science instructional activity, students explore different ways to treat infections. They create a persuasive pamphlet on their position on...
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Urban Life: What Lives in Our Schoolyard?

For Teachers K - 7th
Students research living organisms by exploring their school grounds. In this microscopic observation lesson, students gather materials, insects, and objects from their playground and schoolyard and bring them into class. Students...
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Workplace Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers engage in daily spelling and vocabulary practice of workplace-related terms with definition matching exercises, word scrambles, dictation, sentence writing. Finally, they compose a short essay in which they use the words...
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Computer Technology Bingo

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students review new vocabulary from their computer technology class. In groups, they participate in a bingo game in which they define terms from a worksheet. They are assessed based on an attached rubric and discuss any terms they are...
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Images of Science

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover that science is part of everyday life. In this science lesson, students create a science collage, draw a scientist, and write about science in the news.
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An Irresistable Offer?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify inducements the emperor Constantine offered people to move to his fledgling capital city of Constantinople and compare similar situations offered by the American government in our history and by local governments for...
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Fun With Braille

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the Braille alphabet. In this social studies lesson, students use an enlarged copy of the Braille alphabet to create a set of Braille flashcards.
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Electrophoresis Analogy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a simulation of electrophoresis separation of DNA fragments. They link arms to form DNA fragments with each student representing a nucleotide. As they move through an obstacle course they discover how fragments...
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Quiet Game and Listening Game

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students play 2 games that help them follow classroom procedures. In this procedural instructional activity, students learn to play the quiet game and the listening game.
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Subtracting Whole Numbers

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice subtracting numbers by using a visual aide.  In this number sense lesson, 2nd graders complete whole number subtraction problems by utilizing manipulative cubes to visualize the equation.  Students...
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Dietary Guidelines 2000

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research dietary guidelines and create a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation that reviews the dietary guidelines to present to their class or an elementary class.
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I am the Greatest

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students participate in a game blending skill with chance to enhance students' understanding of the concept of place value. They explain that the value of a number increases when digits farthest to the left have greatest value.
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Sports Shorts

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners put their writing on the World Wide Web. They write brief articles of 100 words or more on PE and sports related topics which are then put on the Internet on the Sports Shorts Webzine. They create sports related artwork or...
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I Am The Greatest

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students work with the place value of given digits. In this place value lesson, students use a deck of number cards to find the greatest number when they draw three cards from the deck. They arrange the the digit from greatest to least.
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South Caro-angular

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students classify and measure angles.  In this angular lesson, students measure, contruct, and classify angles.  They identify angles as acute, right, obtuse, and straight. 
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Spark of Imagination

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners consider the power of physics. For this current events lesson, students listen to a lecture that explores the power garnered by iPod batteries and how they work.
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The Solar System

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students study the planets of the solar system. Students observe a model of the solar system, and name each planet, in order. In pairs, students write acronyms to assist in remembering the plants in order and share them with their...
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Kitchen Cleaning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students, in groups, clean one or more items in a certain time frame.
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English Colonization

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss their prior knowledge of what colonization means and give their opinions of why someone would want to start a colony. After recording their answers on web map they read about the English colonization in their books;...
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Selling Spelling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in activities to practice their spelling words. They create advertisements to accompany their spelling words. They present their ads to the class and take a practice test. Their goal is to have everyone with a...