Dollars and Sense

Pupils create an auction of international artifacts. Using the internet, they research items of cultural significance in their target culture. Students write a brief description of the object and place a starting value on the object...

Students use their creativity and logic skills as well as their knowledge of coin values and history to solve a variety of riddles. The lesson prompts students to compose their own riddles, exchange them with classmates, and solve them.

Students analyze magazine advertisements that appeal to them. They explore how tobacco companies continue to target teens in magazine advertisements. They explore how advertisers select magazine ad space.

Students research facts about specified countries, finding economic and population data on the Internet, and use that information to create a poster for in-class display. This lesson is for a middle-level Math or Social Studies classroom.

Students locate 6 cities, one on each of the 6 major continents. They find distance for each leg of their journey, convert to percents, use a time zone map, and convert to foreign currencies.

In this government spending - earmarks worksheet, students research this topic (there are many links listed), examine the issue, write a letter to their congressional representative or a local newspaper, make a video or analyze the...