Places and Production

Using the classic game of Monopoly and a revised set of rules provided in this resource, your class members will discover how GDP is calculated and practice enacting expansionary or contractionary fiscal policies. What a great way to...

For this petroleum products worksheet, students are given the components of crude oil and they graph the various products found in a 50 gallon barrel. Students complete an activity to determine if they have collected cards that represent...

Students design ways to accommodated voters with disabilities. In this creative problem solving lesson, students use the ADA checklist for polling places and universal design principles to evaluate a polling place. They draw plans...

First clarifying that people need to "resist every temptation on earth" when squaring a binomial, Sal walks viewers through a few equations using binomials and applies the skills from the previous videos about working with polynomials....

Farmers just farm, right? Find out how important agricultural products are to our modern society. Learners will explore the foods, textiles, and fuels made from industrial farm goods. They'll also explore the idea of choosing an...

An excellent resource gets kids looking at agricultural production to better understand the careers needed in distributing foods from the farm to the consumer. Book, poster, web, and video links are included for teacher use. There is...

Find the product of numbers that have decimals. First, ignore the decimals and multiply the integers. Second, count the place values of the decimals for each value given. Third, add the values together. Fourth, place the decimal in the...

Students compare American South with India in terms of population density and food production. They practice math skills of estimation and calculation, visualize relative sizes of areas and populations, explore relationship between...

Multiplying multi-digit numbers without a calculator. First, make sure you align the numbers properly. It's not just about multiplying, but there's carrying numbers and adding numbers and placeholders. You can do it, just remember to...

Chances are, the members of your economics class have heard the terms federal reserve, GDP, and budget deficit in any number of places, including political campaigns, nightly news, and social media. But can they apply their classroom...