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Prices in Private Enterprise System
Learning sure is in demand! Pupils explore the economic principle of supply and demand with a series of engaging, hands-on activities. They practice comparison shopping for a bottle of soda, conduct research on ticket scalping, and...
Northern Ireland Curriculum
Money Wise
Does money seem to slip through your middle schoolers' fingers? Encourage them to examine spending, saving, and budgeting habits with a unit on consumer skills and money management. Young spenders study the waste that occurs with school...
Curated OER
That's the Spirit
Is, as Walt Whitman contends, America’s “almost maniacal appetite for wealth,” the heart of the American dream? Class members grapple with this question as they read David Brooks’ article “The Commercial Republic,” and quotes that...
Curated OER
Personal and Family Considerations
In this vocational instructional activity, students respond to 28 questions, rating them from strongly agree to strongly disagree. The questions focus on personal, family, and future considerations.
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Enterprise Worksheet 1
In these stock exchange worksheet, students use the Celebdaq to complete the chart about celebrity stock, shares, and dividends
Curated OER
Social Entrepreneurship
Students brainstorm ideas involved in social entrepreneurship and define it. They role-play as a funding organization and develop criteria for various projects to support. Students develop projects and present them for funding to the class.
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Reflecting and Creating
Students evaluate the sustainability of an enterprise based on how well it contributes. For this sustainable agriculture lesson students build skills as they work together by using the Internet to research and develop their own...
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Enterprise Worksheet 7
In these stock exchange worksheets, students study 2 diagrams and answer 3 questions about the stock exchange and celebrity shares.