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Bang for Your Buck

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore reasons for making a particular purchase and examine one strategy Wal-Mart stores used to keep prices low. They research and compare two companies that make similar products using different business philosophies.
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Improve the Lives of the Homeless in New Orleans

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop a business plan to address the issue of homelessness. In this "Homeless in New Orleans" lesson, students learn how to develop a business plan, interview homeless people, brainstorm ideas and present their final plan to...
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The Art Of War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze the military, business, and political implications of Sun Tzu's book The Art of War. In this literature lesson, students read and discuss the novel prior to interviewing business people about business practices that...
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Market Prices

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders understand that prices change. In this business, price and labor lesson, 2nd graders define the words market and price. Students read Arthur's Funny Money and answer questions related to earning and spending money....
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The Collaborative Works of Rodgers and Hammerstein: Show Business

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the work of Rodgers and Hammerstein in an historical context of the development of American musical theatre as an art form. Students explore "roots" of the genre as it evolves in last half of the 19th and first two decades...
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Greed is Good?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
From Mr. Merdle to Mr. Madoff? A viewing of the PBS adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Little Dorrit” launches an examination of greedy characters in literature and a study of greed, unfairness, and economic hardship today. The richly...
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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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On the Road Again": Moving People, Products, and Ideas

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this instructional activity pupils learn how to identify modes of transportation and communication for moving people, products, and ideas from place to place. Students also study the advantages and disadvantages of different modes of...
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Making Your Local Ethical Shopping Guide

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students write a research action plan on how to buy products that are environmentally friendly even in tough world conditions. In this ethical business lesson plan, students learn that the economy, food prices, natural disasters, and...
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Many Cultures

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study about several aspects of human culture, specifically those in California. They examine California's agriculture, industry, and economic changes; and cultural changes since 1850.
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Bartering for a Living: Lesson 3

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore the concept o bartering during colonial times.  For this colonial lesson, students discover what it was like to live and servive during the colonial times.  Students also discover how people using to barter for items and...
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Entrepreneur Profit Balloon Game with Physical Education

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore business by participating in physical activities. In this entrepreneur lesson, 4th graders define profit and how it is necessary to run a successful business. Students pop balloons with monetary values inside and...
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I Want To Be an Entrepreneur

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students define the word entrepreneur as they create a business. In this economics lesson, students understand the elements of creating a successful business and record them. Students create a commercial for their businesses.
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Labor Unions and Strikes

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Teens explore economics by listening to a labor history lecture and an excerpt from Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy. A detailed outline is provided for the lecture, along with follow up and assessment questions. In groups, they...
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Strawberry Girl: Lesson 3 - Trains, Sails, and Trails

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read two chapters of Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski and complete activities about Florida's transportation history. In this literacy and economics lesson, students read two chapters of the book, talk about their journal entries,...
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Protecting the Planet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss being a responsible student by helping to protect the rainforest. In this citizenship lesson, students brainstorm ideas to help global warming, warfare, human-rights abuses and acid rain. Students write an essay to send...
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Newsworthy Journey

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students conduct Internet research about ancient civilizations to produce a newspaper that reflecting the cultural, political, economic and religious views of the ancient civilizations of Egypt or Mexico.
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Environment or Economy?

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students develop counterarguments to John Mizzoni's article on business sustainability. In this economics vs. environment lesson, students present examples of greenwashing and support them with rationale. They also discuss whether carbon...
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Grade 9 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 18

For Teachers 9th Standards
As first-year students continue to investigate how sugar changed the world, the focus shifts to a consideration of why people with limited job options take on dangerous or subjugating work. Class members read an opinion piece by Nicholas...
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Reading

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a jungle run in which they must group with the same people who hold the same cards with pictures of a tree, mushroom, deer or insect. In these groups, they read the definitions of sustainable development. Using...
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Setting Up Shop

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate what goes in to starting a retail store. In this business economics lesson, 7th graders brainstorm products they would like to sell and use magazines, newspapers and real estate listings to bring their store...
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The Origins of Business

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the world of inventions by utilizing Google Earth. In this global geography lesson, students research inventions such as the ball point pen, computer, telephone and typewriter. Students use the Google Earth software to...
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57 Varieties of Interdependence

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine the life of Henry J. Heinz and how he began his career in food service. For this economic history lesson,students study how Henry J. Heinz started his business. Learners will create and answer key questions that that...
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Nebraska Entrepreneur Success Stories

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore entrepreneurs of Nebraska. In this business and social studies lesson plan, students research Nebraska entrepreneurs to discover the history of their successful company.

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