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Inside the Vault-Entrepreneurship

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore entrepreneurship. For this economic study lesson, students take a pretest on attitudes, review characteristics that make up an entrepreneur, review a list of famous entrepreneurs, and create a 5 minute oral presentation...
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Entrepreneurs are Born, but Can They Be Taught?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of entrepreneurs. In this entrepreneurs lesson, students read an article about entrepreneurship and whether or not it is an inherent trait or a learned skill. Students discuss why entrepreneurship is...
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Incentives Matter

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify what motive people. They will learn about both positive, and negative incentives. They will use this knowledge to make predictions about how people will behave. They will apply this knowledge to economics.
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Country Economic Organization

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders research the economic systems and organization of another country. They prepare a PowerPoint presentation for the class showcasing their findings.
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Saltdough Ladybug

For Teachers K - 12th
Students make salt dough and then fashion it into the shape of a lady bug, shich they later paint after it has been baked.
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Paper Trees

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use a brown paper bag to create their own paper trees. They rip the bag at the top to create the branches and then glue pieces of green tissue paper to make the leaves.
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Interactions of Science and Technologies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars 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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Clothespin Magnets

For Teachers K - 6th
Students decorate letter, clothespin magnets using basic art supplies in this Art lesson for the elementary classroom. Teacher preparation should include cutting out letter shapes for each student and connecting clothespins prior to the...
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The Greatest Show on Earth: Then and Now

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore the history of the circus in the United States. They explore the life of John Bill Ricketts, founder of the first circus. Students compare Ricketts' first circus to the modern circus.
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The Role of Profits in the Economy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the role of profits in an economy. As a class, they explain why profits are an incentive and practice calculating profit and loss. They discover what a firm in capitalism must do to earn profits and explain the...
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The Business of Design

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils visit the Design for the Other 90% exhibition. In this design lesson plan, student learn how to design for the population of the world that is poor or impoverished. In addition, students read New York Times articles and watch...
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Ship of Gold

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore American values. In this American history lesson, 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 surrounding the sinking...
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Tin Can Telephone

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners make telephones. In this visual arts activity, students follow the provided steps to create their own tin can telephones.
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Pet Rock Necklace

For Teachers K - 7th
Students create pet rock necklaces. In this craft activity lesson plan, students tie a wire around the rock and then paint the rock with a face. Students then add beads and a rope to create a pet rock necklace.
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Early Explorers

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students answer short answer questions and participate in a role play where they are explorers being interviewed. In this early explorers lesson plan, students discuss why it is beneficial to be the first one in a place.
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The Guy Behind Kinko's

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the concept of starting a business. In this starting a business activity, students read an article about the founder of Kinko's. High schoolers discuss how Kinko's expanded and tried to avoid centralization and...
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Students Suffocate Under Tens of Thousands in Loans

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of student loans. In this student loans lesson, students read an article about the large amount of student loans today's students owe. Students discuss how higher loan payments and increased debt will affect...
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Innovation in a Bag

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students create a business plan to start up their own business. In this algebra lesson, students think of a product they can produce and sell. They create on paper what they should do and then put into practice creating a mock business.
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Wanted Dead or Alive: The Entrepreneur of the Year

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate entrepreneurship as it relates to careers. In this career planning activity, students create goals leading up to their career of choice. They identify the characteristics necessary ti be successful in the...
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Is Capitalism Good for the Poor? | How Incentives Affect Innovation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars focus on the role played by a nation's institutions in generating creativity, invention and innovation, and analyzes how innovation promotes the economic growth that raises standards of living and alleviates poverty.
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Economics: Who Benefits from Competition?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine competitive markets and complete a simulation called "The More. the Merrier." In the simulation they assess how goods are more available when competition increases. Students investigate how competition and the opening of...
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Apply Technological Design and Scientific Habits of Mind

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are introduced to the principles involved with technological design. In groups, they use the Internet to research an important historical innovation and how it changed the world. They discover the barriers that were...
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Bug Village

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create small "villages" of rock bugs in this cute Art lesson plan using blocks of wood, glue guns, rocks, acorns, and sticks. The lesson plan includes resource links and pictures of the finished product in either a "natural"...
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Entrepreneur: Anita Roddick

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students discover how entrepreneurs make their living. As a class, they identify the characteristics of entrepreneurships and their attitudes. Using the internet, they research the life of Anita Roddick, who founded the Body Shop. They...

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