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Exploring George Washington's Leadership

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine primary documents to determine whether or not George Washington was an honest leader. For this presidential history lesson, students evaluate Washington's leadership prior to and during his presidency. Guided reading...
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Entrepreneurs in History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine the contributions of American entrepreneurs. In this industrialization lesson, students complete the provided handouts to determine how Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Hill, and Rockefeller impacted American society. Young...
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Taking Care of Business

For Teachers 8th
Young adults consider the application of technology and communication in the business and management career cluster. They research careers in the cluster and discuss what skills are required to be successful. They use their findings to...
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Inside the Vault-Entrepreneurship

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore entrepreneurship. In this economic study instructional activity, students take a pretest on attitudes, review characteristics that make up an entrepreneur, review a list of famous entrepreneurs, and create a 5 minute...
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Interactions of Science and Technologies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore how science and technology interact. They discuss important inventions, discoveries and technologies. They research a specific technological advance, or invention, and prepare a presentation that includes the...
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Ship of Gold

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore American values. In this American history instructional activity, students read passages from Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. Students collaborate to conduct research in order to build a timeline of the events...
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The Business of Design

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers visit the Design for the Other 90% exhibition. In this design instructional activity, student learn how to design for the population of the world that is poor or impoverished. In addition, students read New York Times...