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Fruit or Vegetable?

For Teachers 6th Standards
Watermelon is a vegetable? A tomato is a fruit? Believe it or not, this debate is decades old. Groups examine rulings by the US Supreme Court, the USDA, and state statutes before developing their own criteria to use when labeling...
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Trade in the Global Village

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use the internet to research the trade status and needs of a country of their choice. Using this information, they determine which three main products their nation needs to import and which ones they can export. They...
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NAFTA Trade Unit

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the geography, economics and government of Canada and how that affects US/Canadian trade relations. In this NAFTA lesson, students play a game, read about Canadian history, and creat a graph.
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Oklahoma Wheat on the World Market

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore profit and loss in the wheat trading market.  In this sixth grade mathematics lesson/social studies lesson, 6th graders play a “Wheat Market Trading Game” in order to investigate the concept of supply and...