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Store Wide Sale
Students practice figuring percentages by solving written shopping problems. For this consumer math lesson, students read several scenarios dealing with items on sale and must figure out the new price. Students check their work with a...
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Kumara Math
Students explore nutrition by completing math problems in class. In this food conversions lesson, students identify what the kumara plant is and how it can contribute to human health by regularly consuming an appropriate amount. Students...
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Just Look at Our Shoes
Young scholars complete cross-curricular activities using a shoe theme. In this cross-curricular lesson, students explore various systems, examine open and closed systems, and examine product life cycles.
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Social Justice-Water in Developing Countries
Students explore how water shortage affects everyday life. In this social justice lesson, students discuss information about water shortage in Ghana. A water shortage simulation/game is played in which a "Canadian" team starts with a...
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Raising Plants
Students investigate the life cycle of plants by growing their own in class. In this botany lesson, students practice using plant vocabulary while they grow their own Wisconsin Fast Plants. Students collaboratively build a light box...
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Wise Shoppers
Students complete several activities to learn about currency and the functions of money. In this money functions lesson, students complete activities to learn what are the functions of money. Students calculate item prices with...
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Pizza Portions
Students explore mathematics by participating in a pizza pie activity. In this nutrition activity, students identify the caloric intake in a piece of pizza and estimate the average number of slices eaten by a person. Students utilize...
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Payment Parliament
Students investigate how the economy works by role playing in their class. In this money management lesson, students read parts from a script for use in a role playing lesson simulating the Federal Reserve and their payment processing....
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Running a Student Cooperative
Students form a classroom cooperative. In this service learning lesson plan, students explore how to form and run a cooperative and decide as a class how to implement their cooperative plan. Students use funds raised from the...
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Best Practices of Technology Integration
Young scholars study how a type of product is advertised. In this product advertisement lesson plan, students research a specific product and its advertisement. Young scholars create a market research survey based on their peers...
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Junk Mail Overload!
Students discuss the "junk mail nuisance" with the teacher and share their opinions on the problem. Students collect a week's worth of junk mail, bring to class and complete a chart about the amount and weight. Students then complete an...