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C-SPAN

C Span Classroom: Teaching About Campaign Finance

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module teaches students how political candidates fund their campaigns. Through wathcing videos and reading related articles on money in politics, students will form their own opinion and participate in classroom deliberations on...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Revolutionary Money

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A two-lesson unit using the Smithsonian collection of currency to teach students about the first American money. Other resources are given and all materials are downloadable.
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills: Lessons: Pre K Grade2

For Teachers K - 1st
Four lessons on basic money skills for young learners cover topics such as identifying money, spending money, and earning money.
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Other

Federal Bank of Richmond: My Money

For Students 3rd - 5th
For elementary students, this booklet of activities teaches basic money skills and concepts. Includes lesson plans.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mice Rule! (Or Not)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the relationships between genetics, biodiversity, and evolution through a simple activity involving hypothetical wild mouse populations. First, students toss coins to determine what traits a set of mouse parents...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Bouncing Ball Money Choices

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students play a game to share how they think and feel about money.
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TES Global

Tes: Teaching History With 100 Objects Guy Fawkes' Lantern

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources focuses on Guy Fawkes' Lantern used in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliment and the king in 1605. It includes photos of the lantern, a drawing of Fawkes with the lantern...
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Practical Money Skills

Practical Money Skills at Home: Allowance and Savings

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Ideas to teach children the importance of saving and the value of an allowance using this activity. Suggestions for conveying these ideas include related worksheets to help children better grasp these concepts.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Enhancing Outcomes for Struggling Adolescent Readers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With so much required of high schools today, there is little time or money to spend on the students who lack basic skills. This article presents important factors leading to success for struggling adolescent readers, taken from...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Saving for Post Secondary Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use an online compound interest calculator to answer questions and create charts that show the value of saving money over time for future education goals.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Global Landslide Catalog

For Students 3rd - 5th
Landslides cause between 1-2 billion dollars in damage per year in the U.S. alone. NASA tracks landslides globally in order to analyze trends in landslide frequency, distribution, and impacts to help scientists better predict landslides...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp the Price of Bread

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The purpose of this task is for students to calculate the percent increase and relative cost in a real-world context. This task is part of a set collaboratively developed with Money as You Learn, an initiative of the President's Advisory...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit 3 Assessment

For Teachers 2nd Standards
It is important to assess students periodically to plan for future lessons to meet student needs.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: It Is About Time

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders worked on telling time to the hour and half hour earlier in the year. Now they will apply their understanding of counting by 5s to telling time to the five minute interval.
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Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society: Ellen Clara Sabin

For Students 9th - 10th
Ellen Clara Sabin (1850-1949) began teaching at a young age, and went on the become one of the leaders in establishing educational institutions in Wisconsin specifically for women. She also helped establish the Wisconsin Federation of...