Students examine how to balance a checkbook.  In this economics lesson, students demonstrate that they can balance a checkbook by completing an activity that includes a check register and bank statement.

Students read news reports and first-person accounts of a blackout in a large city and keep weblogs or journals. They take on different roles of people who live in the city or commute there to work and then use their journal accounts to...

Young scholars read a first hand account of John F. Kennedy's assassination. They write an essay describing how a world or national event affected them.

Students complete a series of tasks that help them learn about the stock market. In this stock market lesson plan, students identify companies they are familiar with and learn about stock symbols. Students study the makeup of...

Students research a sailing vessel. They create sailing vessel postcards which include research information they located. Students also include any experiences they may have had on a sailing vessel.