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Council for Economic Education

Employment Data: Is the Economy Healthy?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Low unemployment is an indicator of a healthy economy—right? Current employment data and research leads scholars on a quest to find the true health of the economy. They analyze research on Payroll Employment Data and watch a short video...
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Curated OER

To the North: A Black Family Leaves Arkansas to Find Work in Michigan

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Upper elementary and middle school scholars study the economic factors that caused so many Arkansans to migrate to different parts of the country looking for work. Use this history lesson plan to help your charges gain a better...
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One Hen

Making Choices

For Teachers 4th - 9th Standards
When choosing what foods to eat, there are a lot of factors to consider. To help make the decision a little easier, young learners work in small groups developing short plays, stories, or advertisements that address the different issues...
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Teach Engineering

Considering Trade-Offs and Maximizing Efficiency in a Fast Food Restaurant

For Students 7th - 12th
Make fast food restaurants even faster. Groups consider trade-offs when maximizing efficiency in fast food restaurants. Restructuring schedules and floor plans, as well reassigning job duties, all fall under this directive.  
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Genes Can Be Turned On and Off

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Regulations exist in many places from business to schools, but what about in our genes? Learn about gene regulation with an online interactive. It uses an animation to introduce the topic, many photographs of the scientists best known...
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Curated OER

Acting for the Common Goods

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The first of a three-part series on bullying, this plan has class members present skits about bullying, write and sign an anti-bullying pledge, and complete a service project. For the skit, learners use information from previous lessons...
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Curated OER

Schools Going Solar

For Teachers 9th - 12th
If your school has a photovoltaic system, you can use this lesson plan to guide learners through an investigation of the factors affecting performance. Familiarize yourself with the data acquisition system, and then provide data for your...
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Weebly

My Menu Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
If you don't mind using another teacher's website, this one has a simple project that would make a nice conclusion to your nutrition unit. Using a planning worksheet and peer review, nutrition nuts create a cafe menu using healthy foods....
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Federal Reserve Bank

What Do Financial Market Indicators Tell Us?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Explain the four categories of financial indicators (commodity prices, stock indexes, interest rates, and yield spreads), and help your class members understand how changes in this data can affect decisions regarding consumer spending,...
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Mascil Project

Arranging Tables for a Birthday

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Planning a party of 45 guests may be more complicated than it would seem.  Learners must design the space in accordance with these constraints about the space available in the room. They need to calculate area, circumference,...
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Curated OER

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders visit the US Holocaust Museum to witness the actions of the Nazis against the Jews during World War II. A great lesson if you are located near the museum or are planning a trip to the DC area.
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Curated OER

Team Assignment - A Parking Dilemma

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Class groups are challenged to solve the school’s parking problem. Each team must establish ground rules for their discussion, determine criteria that must be met, and brainstorm possible solutions. Next, they agree on one solution and...
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Curated OER

One Grain of Rice

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Upper graders read the story One Grain of Rice, and use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast topics found in the story to current event topics today. Groups of three learners work together to create their diagram. The topics they must...
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Curated OER

Louisiana's Tragic Hero - "Evangeline"

For Teachers 8th
"Ye who believe...List to a Tale of Love in Acadie." Longfellow's epic poem, "Evangeline," launches a study of tragic heroines, epic poetry, the expulsion of the Acadians from Canada, and their subsequent migration to Louisiana. The...
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Curated OER

Swamps, Shrimp, and Tsunamis: A Simulation of Sustainable Development Issues in Coastal Ecuador

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the economic benefits, environmental losses and dangers of the shrimp farming industry on the coast of Ecuador. They read a script, role-play people involved in the shrimp business, and write an essay of the pros...
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Curated OER

Fantastic Flower

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here is a clever lesson on pollination of flowers for you. In it, learners study the anatomy of a flower, and play a game in which they simulate the process of pollination. This fine plan brings in elements of art, physical education,...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Student Store

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Vocational training activities are extremely important for learners with intellectual or physical disabilities. Here is a great idea that will help your class become skilled at money handling, basic economic concepts, interpersonal...
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EngageNY

Relationships Between Quantities and Reasoning with Equations and Their Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Graphing all kinds of situations in one and two variables is the focus of this detailed unit of daily lessons, teaching notes, and assessments. Learners start with piece-wise functions and work their way through setting up and solving...
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University of North Carolina

Communication Studies

For Students 9th - 12th
A degree in communications incorporates disciplines such as business, law, and media as well. A writing handout offers prospective communications majors information about what kind of assignments to expect in a typical course....
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Curated OER

Contestable Markets

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students make inquiry into the concept of contestable markets. The lesson focuses upon theory and the intention is to encourage students to move to analysis or evaluation of the market. The lesson helps to reinforce the skills of...
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Curated OER

Strategies for Economic Development

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students develop an awareness of the main strategies of development. The limitations of strategies is addressed. The skills of analysis and evaluation in the business environment are developed. The goal of the skills is becoming...
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Curated OER

Models of Development

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the main characteristics of models of development. They list the limitations of each model. They compare and contrast the models and explain how they would move a business toward further development.
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Curated OER

Entreprenuership

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers define entrepreneurship and identify examples of those who have succeeded. Using the Internet, they research the lives of Henry Ford, Bill Gates and others. To end the lesson, they develop their own financial plan to start...
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Curated OER

Making a Mountain Out of a Snow Hill: Skiing, Winter Sports, Economics, Business, Problem Solving

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore how to select among choices of variables and analyze the cost-benefit ratio of their short and long term planning in a team activity as they consider the planning and operation of a ski slope.

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