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How Can Big Business Make Money From Tariffs?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of the rise of big business in the United States. In this economics lesson, students investigate the impact of tariffs on businesses. Learners also investigate the impact that incentives have on special...
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In Your Own Backyard

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify entrepreneurial opportunities that exist in their own community. From this information they determine possible market niches and identify potential businesses that could be started to meet the demands of these niches...
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What's In It For Me?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students analyze the costs and benefits that are involved with owning a business. They create their own decision making grid and identify their trade-offs. They also identify the opportunity costs involved in owning their own business.
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Share Economy At Work

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine Share Economy. In this economic studies lesson, students complete worksheets, watch videos, and have group/class discussions on the benefits and attributes of a share economy.
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Poetry: Form, Syllables, Mood, and Tone

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Looking for a resource to introduce homeschoolers and other out-of-class learners to the elements of poetry? Check out this packet that defines and illustrates important poetry terms.
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The Search for Pythagoras' Treasure

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students identify and define properties of triangles. In this geometry lesson, students identify the missing sides and angles of right triangles. They use the rules of the Pythagorean Theorem to solve their problems.
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Lesson 11: Lowell Workers and Producers Respond to Incentives

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students explore concept of supply and demand and how changes in supply affect price and quantity of goods.
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Hey, Mom! What's for Breakfast?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine how he world eats breakfast. In this food choices lesson, students work in groups to list breakfast foods and their ingredients and find goods and consumers on the list. The, students use the Internet to complete a...
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Project H.O.P.E. (Highlighting Opportunities for Potential Employment)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars explore career paths by creating a job scrapbook.  In this employment lesson, students discuss what types of skills employers look for in the job market.  Young scholars decide on a career they would like to...
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Financial Fables: Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Cover two subjects with one lesson! First, dive into English language arts; read an eBook, answer comprehension questions, and complete a cause and effect chart about the financial fable, Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl. Then, take...
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The Right Number of Elephants

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
How can you tell if a number of items is reasonable? Combine math and language arts with a fun lesson based on Jeff Shepard's The Right Number of Elephants. After reading the book, kids discuss amounts of other items and create...
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Properties of the Centers of a Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers investigate properties of the four centers of a triangle and explore a special property of the circumcenter and orthocenter of a triangle. This instructional activity requires the use of Cabri, Jr.
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Anatomy of a Book

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners reference books to become familiar with locating information necessary for citing resources in a research paper. In this technical writing lesson students work in groups to find the answers to prepared questions.
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The Trial of Standing Bear

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate the story of Standing Bear and his people as they defied the U.S. Governemt and returned to their homes in Omaha. Their arrest was followed by a trial which the Ponca people won.
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The Market for Moving People to America, 1610-1775

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine the markets that brought people to America. They identify the role of the immigrants in creating this country. They also analyze data to gather information about the time period.
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College Graduation Rate Stagnate

For Students 9th - 12th
College has become a way to prepare for the future. However, according to this New York Times article, college graduation rates are stagnating. Kids read the article and then answer nine questions answering who, what, when, where, and...
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Journey to America

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders carefully analyze the artwork, Les Emigrants, and explore the reasons that people emigrated to the United States, and what life was like for new arrivals. They discuss what things immigrants were able to bring with them and...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Career Advancement

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, while examining an extensive vocabulary list on the board, explore how to request job transfers as well as work for job incentives. A graphic organizer helps to assist the students in this task before them.
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Roam the Halls for Fitness

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use pedometers or digiwalkers to walk as many steps as possible during a class period (in the building hallways). They assess steps walked at the end of the period for prizes and/or goal setting.
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Roam the Halls for Fitness

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students walk as many steps as possible during a class period while using a digiwalker or pedometer.
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Working for What You Want

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write a story about someone who works in order to earn money for something they want.
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Bisectors of Triangles

For Teachers 10th
In this geometry worksheet, 10th graders solve problems involving the perpendicular bisectors and angle bisectors of a triangle and their points of concurrency.  The one page worksheet contains sixteen questions.  Answers...
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Rebuild Your Community

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the Gulf Coast disaster and what it took to rebuild the community surrounding it. In this economic development lesson, students watch a video from the Nightly Business Report and explore what all it takes to make up a...
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African Americans and the Move West

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the phases of the migration west and analyze the incentives for African Americans to move.They create a timeline of migration to the west along with charts depicting the changes in demographics of areas at...