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Severe Weather Trackers
Students explore weather terminology and the jobs that are associated with it. In this weather instructional activity students write about thunderstorms and make a tornado.
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Good Health
Students complete a unit with cross-curricular activities to learn about a healthy body and maintaining their health. In this health lesson, students complete 8 lessons to learn about good health, a healthy diet, healthy foods, healthy...
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Prairie Voices...Making a Living
Students explore the many ways people support themselves and their families. In this economics lesson, students review newspapers and compare types of jobs. Students create daily schedules for an adult worker and role play job interview...
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Elementary Vocabulary Games
How do learners pick up new vocabulary words? This book offers an explanation and 30 vocabulary games to help your language learners master new words. Each game is based on a particular topic and includes three parts (memorizing,...
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Balancing a Budget
Students investigate money management. In this secondary mathematics instructional activity, students participate in a cost-of-living budget simulation in which they calculate monthly and yearly projected costs. Students investigate...
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Home Sweet Home
In this Pilgrims worksheet, students analyze 12 pictures of common household items. Students circle all the pictures that show something that would have been found in a Pilgrim home.
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LET YOUR FINGERS DO THE WALKING
The student will recognize different information sources. 2. The student will use a telephone book as a resource for locating agricultural businesses
and people with agriculture-related jobs.Discuss the purpose of the phone book, and...
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Shopping Trip
In this counting coins worksheet, students cut and paste the correct coins necessary to purchase each of the 5 common household items. All prices are under a dollar.
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My Family and Me
Students discuss the family unit and compare it to an ant colony. In this family lesson, students draw their family and extended family and talk about their jobs and family roles. They compare this to an ant colony and observe the work...
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Financial Planning
Students research possible careers. They determine typical starting income for the career. Using collected information, students develop a budget for their starting income. Students consider car payments and research the process of...
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BEGINNER LEVEL LESSON PLAN ANTICIPATORY SET
Students are be able to analyze primary sources for evidence of American entrepreneurship during the early 20th century. They identify the attributes that helped George Eastman succeed as an entrepreneur and consider the role advertising...
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Technological Developments
First graders discuss household tasks, and identify differences between how things are done now, and how they were done when their parents and grandparents were little. Students then predict how tasks will change in future, and visit...
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Integrating Character Education into Lesson Plans
Students select a favorite lesson and list character traits from that lesson to serve as indicators on various questions under review. Character traits included are honesty, compassion, strong work ethnic and respect for the environment.
Federal Reserve Bank
FRED in the Classroom: Employment and the Labor Force
Acquaint your class members with data sources for employment in the United States and help them gain a better understanding of a vital measure of our economy's health.
ProCon
Minimum Wage
The first ever minimum wage in America was set at 25 cents per hour in 1938 and has been steadily, if slowly, increasing ever since. Using the provided website, pupils decide if the United States should further increase the federal...
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Get Charged!
Young scholars explore the concept of electricity in this activity based unit. For this physical science lesson, students focus on electricity and electrical engineering. The teaching unit includes 5 activities to develop young scholars...
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Just Turn it Off
Students explore energy. In this energy lesson, students discover why it is important to conserve energy. Students discover how energy is used in items we use everyday. Students discover how batteries work. Students do an experiment with...
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The Victorians Fact Cards
Want to learn some quick facts about Victorian England? Check out a series of fact cards that include information about class structure, education rights, public health, and Queen Victoria herself.
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English Exercises: Present Perfect Exercises
In this online interactive English instructional activity, students respond to 15 fill in the blank questions that require them to sue verbs correctly. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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My Extraterrestrial Counting Book
In this extraterrestrial counting worksheet, students assemble and color a mini personal book on counting from one to ten with extraterrestrial objects.
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Cool Chemistry- DIY pH Indicator
Students study the differences between an acid and a base. In this pH instructional activity students view a demonstration then test chemicals in groups.
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Colonial Currency
Fifth graders develop a common currency. In this colonial currency instructional activity, 5th graders exchange beads, rice, coins, and paper bills for goods and services. Students explore web tools to research ways colonists used money,...
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The Designed World
Young scholars study the classification system used in a library. In this sorting and classification lesson, students visit their library and define the classification system in place. Young scholars discuss the sorting method and then...
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"Real Life" Budgeting Project
Pupils experience what it is like to be a responsible citizen through a monthly budget through using a variety of research skills.
They apply collected data in a decision making exercise and
present the final product in a clear and...