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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Precalculus Concepts 2.0

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
A complete high school Precalculus Concepts course. Includes 'Related Modalities' for each lesson that teach the same concept in different ways. The text materials follows Algebra II and comes before Calculus or Statistics. The content...
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Other

The Federal Election Campaign Laws: A Short History

For Students 9th - 10th
A short history of the Federal Election Campaign Laws beginning before the 1971 laws and continuing through the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 and the Amendments of 1974, 1976, and 1979.
Lesson Plan
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Stewart Resources Centre: Consumer Wise [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A tenth-grade math unit, developed in 1993 by a Saskatchewan teacher, on budgeting.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Now With Bill Moyers: Voting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson for examining governmental influences in everyday life. Learners analyze a report focusing on a democracy reform effort and predict the impact of suggested reforms. They then strategize on ways to overcome a perceived obstacle...
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Other

Car Ads: Low Interest Loans & Other Offers

For Students 9th - 10th
This page, provided by a law firm, gives Federal Trade Commission warnings on advertised low-interest rates and questions to consider before signing for a low-interest rate.
Primary
Other

Csa Currency: Csa Bond Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes the different types of confederate bonds, their amounts, and shows examples.
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Other

Confederate Treasury: Confederate States Currency 1861 1865 Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a commercial site, but it does offer good information about confederate money. To get to the information click PRODUCTS on the sidebar, when the new page opens click CONFEDERATE STATES CURRENCY 1861-1865 COLLECTION, then click on...
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Other

Psmre: The Northern Pacific Railway

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Puget Sound Model Railroad Engineers provides information about the history of the Northern Pacific Railway. The route follows the path Lewis and Clark took in 1804. Mentions cost, manpower, and other railroad companies.
Interactive
Other

Stock Market Game World Wide

For Students 9th - 10th
Over the course of 10 weeks, participants invest a hypothetical $100,000 in Nasdaq, Amex, and NYSE-listed common stocks. They research stocks, study how the financial markets work, choose their portfolios, manage budgets, follow...
Website
PBS

Pbs News Hour: The Cost of the War in Iraq (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson for examining the projected costs of war, both short-term and long-term costs as of 2003, and for identifying how war funds are spent. Students will gain understanding of the logistics of war and the nuances of creating a budget.
Activity
Wolters Kluwer

Business Owner's Toolkit: Sample Bank Review Form for Loan Applications

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information to find out what bank lenders are looking for by viewing a sample loan application. A form used by banks to evaluate the application is included.
Website
Other

Center for Responsive Politics: Open Secrets

For Students 9th - 10th
Opensecrets.org is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Money: Kids and Cash

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site provides a lesson about the dynamics of saving and borrowing with banks.
Handout
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Interest Rates

For Students 9th - 10th
This Dr. Math site asks about simple interest and its effect on the repayment of a loan.
Activity
Other

Idea House: Clinton Administration Challenges Vertical Mergers

For Students 9th - 10th
An article from 1999 defining "vertical merger" which explains the difference between Clinton's treatment of such mergers as compared to George H.S. Bush and Ronald Reagan in their administrations.
Website
CNN

Cnn: u.s. Searching Overseas Bank Transactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents data on how the United States Treasury is using an international financial telecommunications company to find where terrorist groups are keeping their money. (June 2006)

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