Lincoln Public Schools
Cereal Box Project
Challenge your class with this fun and engaging engineering design project. The goal, to create a brand new cereal complete with a list of ingredients, a name and logo, and a box to hold it in. Starting with a survey to determine the...
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Brain Brands
Students explore the advent of neuromarketing as a means to assess the effects of certain brands on the brain activity of prospective buyers. They design their own experiments that test the power of certain brands on a sample population.
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Your First Paycheck Has Finally Arrived! Decisions...decisions...decisions...
Students visit the mall to get prices on favorite shoe brands. They access the internet to find the selling price of these stocks and look for up to date financial information. They experience good business sense as opposed to emotional...
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Lesson 1 Who Owns the World?
Students experience how to turn firsthand knowledge of common products into a useful way of choosing stocks for the Global Stock Game. They engage in a simulation of buying stocks.
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Cost Of Cool
Students explore how marketers use the idea of "cool" to sell clothing and accessories, and become aware of their own attitudes and perceptions about what is cool. They become aware of what motivates them to buy certain things
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Kids Are Consumers Too
Students investigate a chosen product. They use television, radio, print, and internet sources to investigate how the product is advertised. Students create a market research survey to determine which brand is preferred by their peers...
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What is the Best Chip?
Scholars collect data about chips. They pick their favorite type of chip from a given variety such as potato chips, tortilla, or banana chips. Then they write on an index card their favorite chip and why it's their favorite. They also...
Practical Money Skills
Protecting Your Money
How can you tell if a commercial or salesperson is being misleading? Encourage your learners to protect themselves and their money with a lesson about consumer rights. They review laws that keep consumers safe from faulty claims and...
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Analyze and Interpret Statistical Information
In this probability and statistics activity, 9th graders analyze and interpret histograms as they identify trends in the data. The two page activity contains four problems. Answers are provided.
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Data collection and analysis
In this probability and statistics worksheet, high schoolers determine when a survey or collected data could be biased. The one page worksheet contains a combination of three multiple choice and free response questions. Answers are...
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Keystone Science School: Sustainable Automobiles
Students explore how to choose the correct car for them based on their needs.
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More for my Money
Students solve problems involving ratio and proportion. For this algebra lesson, students analyze the currencies found in different countries. They create formulas to convert between the different currencies and use ratio and proportion...