Young scholars summarize the historical development of money. In this economics lesson, students describe the process of bartering and explain how money facilitates trade and exchange. Young scholars also define and describe inflation...

Students investigate the integrity and strength of different types of food wraps. They test the wraps and create a graphic organizer for the data. Once it is organized then a lab report can be written. The lesson contains background...

Students describe the techniques biologists use to classify organisms. In this biology instructional activity, students create cladograms and phylogenetic trees. They list the levels of taxonomic hierarchy.

Students reasearch and grow a plant and present findings. They are told that bedding plant is the name for young plants grown. Students choose one plant to research and they use their worksheet to create an information sheet explaining...

Students are introduced to a variety of easily accessible data about poverty. The search activity performs double-duty in exposing students to the nature and magnitude of world poverty and in confronting them with different types and...

Students calculate employment and unemployment rate. In this economics lesson, students investigate the labor market and make predictions based on collected data. They also calculate unemployment rate in the class.  

Host an exciting lab in which learners burn fruit rinds to better understand hydrocarbons. A reading passage and analysis questions wrap up the lesson. 

Students examine how he world eats breakfast. In this food choices activity, students work in groups to list breakfast foods and their ingredients and find goods and consumers on the list. The, students use the Internet to complete a...

Students examine the 'opae 'ula. In this science instructional activity, students observe a live specimen and identify the major body parts. Students construct habitat jars and observe the 'opae 'ula behaviors.

Young scholars dilate functions using transformation. In this algebra instructional activity, students complete vertical dilation, stretch and shrink. They perform reflection across the x and y axis.

Students play a game that illustrates the delicate ecological balance between fishing, fishing regulations and fish populations. They collect data and analyze the results.

This site provides a good description of the four types of market structures: perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly, along with the major characteristics of each.

Provides a detailed examination of the characteristics of a monopoly, along with various kinds of monopolies, such as natural, local, coercive, and others.

This site is provided for by the Connecticut Department of Labor. In a labor market where there are many qualified candidates competing for the same position, how you do on the interview can often determine whether you get the job. Use...