Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Of One Mind: Consensus Based Decision Making: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand the process of consensus-based decision making. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Of One Mind: Consensus-Based Decision Making."
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Non Rational Factors in Decision Making: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that decision making is not an entirely rational process and will be able to name some of the factors that influence it. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Non-Rational Factors In...
Handout
Other

The Math Center: Advice for Factoring Polynomials

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a general resource on how to factor any polynomial. It reads like a flow chart on the decision-making process. Contains information about factoring polynomials with two, three, or four terms.
Website
Mind Tools

Pmi Weighing the Pros and Cons of a Decision

For Students 9th - 10th
Defines and explains the PMI Decision Making System, which improves upon the weighing pros and cons method to make a decision.
Activity
FNO Press

Fno.org: Develop a Family Decision Making Council

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief article introduces PMI as a method of decision making. While the thrust of the article deals with building skills for the information age, the PMI model is an interesting way to go about family decisions.
Website
Other

E Rulemaking Program: Let Your Voice Be Heard

For Students 9th - 10th
You can make a difference in the federal decision making process. Search by date, category, or government agency and read recent governmental regulations. Assess these regulations firsthand and provide feedback to the people who matter.
Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Barriers to Critical Thinking: Errors in Judgment

For Students 9th - 10th
Users of this learning module will explore the Errors in Judgment: Barriers to Critical Thinking and how it affects their decision-making processes.
Activity
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Making Decisions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes and a video clip provide students with an introduction to the idea of marginal analysis and of how consumers and producers make decisions.
Website
Other

The Consumerist

For Students 9th - 10th
The Consumerist, a subsidiary of Consumer Reports, accepts tips from consumers to cover stories people want to hear or should become aware of based on consumers interests.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Whose Land Is This? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan, with printable activity sheets, from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US." Designed to help learners examine the anti-immigrant sentiment that led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and...
Unit Plan
Other

New Internationalist: Making Decisions

For Students 3rd - 8th
From a 1984 article published in the New Internationalists, "Slow Train to Patna," the author describes a train journey in Bihar, India, where passengers explore the world of community action.
Activity
Other

Dover Adult Learning Center: Pick Your Candidate [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This document from the Dover Adult Learning Center is a nice resource for any beginners in the political decision-making process. Provides links to material to help decipher ads, candidate speeches, rhetorical tricks, campaign issues,...
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Stakeholder Processes: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand the concept of the stakeholders' process. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Stakeholder Processes."
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: The Dust Bowl

For Students 9th - 10th
You are about to embark on an experience that will show you what life was like on the southern Great Plains during the Dust Bowl. On your journey, you will learn about the changing market and weather conditions and be asked to make...
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Energy Problem

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This six-day lesson provides students with an introduction to the importance of energy in their lives and the need to consider how and why we consume the energy we do. The lesson includes activities to engage students in general energy...
Article
Virtual Salt

Virtual Salt: Biases Affecting Information Processing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Author discusses eleven separate biases that can affect decision making. Also provides several factors at the bottom of the page which negatively influence decisions.
Website
Mind Tools

Force Field Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Defines and describes the force field analysis decision-making process. This process is particularly useful when a change is to be implemented.
Professional Doc
University of Hawai'i

University of Hawaii: Communication Ethics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
"Active Learning, Critical Thinking and Multicultural Education in Communication Ethics" discusses strategies to assist students in dealing with moral issues and to develop higher order thinking in the ethical decision-making process.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Multiple Choice: Eliminating Extreme Choices: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review different ways to eliminate poor choices that may be seen on multiple choice tests. Marking strategies to use during the process of elimination are included, along with examples of how to...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Make a Mummy

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the many steps involved in the process of mummification use by the Egyptians in their burial process. What is preserved after thousands of years? And what can scientists learn about life in ancient Egypt from studying...
Handout
Other

Natural Rights and the Limited Government Model of the Constitution

For Students 9th - 10th
There is much to commend Professor Garry's essay. He is eminently correct in saying that the Constitution contemplated a limited government. Whether it adhered to a "limited government model" is a different issue. What is more than...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Trash to Treasure!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Student teams use the engineering design process to create a useful product of their choice out of recyclable items and "trash." The class is given a "landfill" of reusable items, such as aluminum cans, cardboard, paper, juice boxes,...
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Biodomes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the biosphere's environments and ecosystems, learning along the way about the plants, animals, resources and natural cycles of our planet. Over the course of lessons 2-6, students use their growing understanding of...
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Cellular and Molecular Biology : Cell Processes Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over the biochemical processes of life, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.