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Great Depression
Examine the Great Depression with your pupils. First you'll discuss the causes of the Great Depression, such as the stock market crash of 1929. Then, you'll examine key facts, like the Dust Bowl, the New Deal, and economic recovery.
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What is A Stock Screener?
Learners choose stocks from thousands of companies by using a tool called a stock screener to select stocks that fit their investing criteria, such as price-to-earnings ratio, earnings growth, and the past year performance.
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Literacy Lesson: Guided Reading
Here is a wonderful lesson plan designed for students with special needs. This well-thought-out lesson plan uses Big Books, familiar stories, and has a lot of review learning built into it. The book, The Keeping Quilt is used in the main...
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Personal Narrative Paragraphs: Class Quilt
Begin this activity by asking third graders to bring from home pieces of cloth that represent something important to them. (Have extras for young scholars who need them.) They reflect on important events in their lives, compose narrative...
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How to Write an Essay: Secondary ed.
Whether introducing the structure of expository essays or reviewing the format with your high schoolers, take the time to check out this resource. Examples of seven common forms of introductory paragraphs and six types of conclusions, as...
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Micro Economics - Personal Budgeting
High schoolers explore the real world as it relates to money and how people use it. In this money management lesson, students jump into the real world as they role play with money through spending, saving, being married, single, having...
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How Do You Find Stock Symbols?
Learners practice finding stock symbols by company, industry, and country. Stock symbols are necessary to find company information such as stock charts, news, and financial data on the Internet.
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Mr. Popper's Penguin's
Fourth graders locate Antarctica and recognize it as the setting of Mr. Popper's Penguins. In this Mr. Popper's Penguins instructional activity, 4th graders understand the financial decisions made by Mr. Popper. Students discuss wise...
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The Politics Of Taxation
High schoolers explain that taxation involves a compromise of conflicting goals and that lobbyists can influence lawmakers' decisions about taxes. They can explain why people of similar incomes often pay different tax rates and work in...
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SoHo House: A Short History
In this SoHo House learning journey worksheet, students read a short history of the So Ho house and the prominent workman associated with it. They read about James Watt, William Murdoch, and Matthew Boulton.
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Planning: To Get Enough Money for Food
Students investigate methods that families use for planning meals and budgeting for them. In this nutrition lesson, students complete activities that require them to determine how much it costs to feed children at different ages....
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Managing Your Food Money
Young scholars investigate family budgeting methods. In this family budget lesson, students examine the wages and expenditures of family and participate in a simulation that requires them to employ the envelope budget method.
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Money for Food
Students identify low cost, nutritious foods from each of the food groups. In this low cost nutrition lesson, students use the handout "Saving Money on Foods from MyPyramid" and work in groups to study grocery store ads to find foods in...
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"The Roadmap To Purchasing My First New Car"
Students examine the decision-making process of purchasing a car. They conduct Internet research, determine a monthly car payment based on loan information, e-mail various online car websites, research insurance, and determine the best...
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Black Hawk Island Hike
Young scholars explore Wisconsin's natural and cultural history through hands-on exploration of Upham Woods. They are shown the basic paddling skills and they work in teams to paddle across the river on barge. Students describe cultural...
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Worksheet 14 Vocabulary Review
In this completing sentences worksheet, students read ten sentences and complete them by checking all possible words that would make sense from 4 choices.
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Ionizing Atoms
In this atoms activity, students complete a graphic organizer by drawing the neutral atom, finding its charge, and then ionizing it and recalculating its charge.
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Atomic Bonding
In this bonding worksheet, students combine the given atoms to make new neutral compounds. This worksheet has 22 problems to solve.
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He's Donating $100 Million to a University
High schoolers explore the concept of social philanthropy. In this social philanthropy instructional activity, students read an article about billionaires donating money to universities. High schoolers discuss social entrepreneurship and...
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Fairness in Taxes
Students identify and describe two criterion of tax fairness: benefits received and the ability to pay and distinguish between wealth and income as measures of ability to pay.
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The Taxpayer's Rights
Students examine rights of taxpayers and procedures the IRS uses to process tax returns
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The Taxpayer's Responsibilities
Students explore system of voluntary compliance, and describe taxpayers' responsibilities related to filing a tax return.
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The Wealth Tax of 1935 and the Victory Tax of 1942
Students explain that during the Great Depression and World War II, the Roosevelt administration implemented new, broader, and more progressive taxes in order to cover the costs of the New Deal programs and the war.
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Identifying Implications
Students read a variety of reading passages and articles. They investigate how to make implications and assumptions using the information provided.
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