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World War I: Propaganda
Students examine propaganda from the World War I era. Using the examples, they identify how they were able to change the opinions of those viewing it. They discuss whether the United States entered the war to find new markets and further...
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Supermarket
Students watch demonstrations of 2 ways for people to check out at a supermarket based on today's technology. In this supermarket lesson plan, students conclude which method is faster and explain why.
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The Environment and the Community
Students observe their environment and come up with ways to protect it. In this environment lesson plan, students discuss pollution and ways to prevent it. Then they create a poster with drawings that show a goal to reduce pollution and...
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Moving Day
Students cognitively connect what would be important to a family that was enduring the Depression. They illustrate what would have been present in someone's home during the late 1920's and early 1930's. Students provide rationale for...
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Paws in Jobland: Jobland Shopping Trip
Students gain knowledge of commerce and appreciate the value of money. For this career lesson plan, students role play as storekeepers or shoppers. Students determine where to get the best bargains in their respective roles.
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The Future of China's Economic System
Ninth graders explore China's economic system and the future of the system. They define economic terms, research websites to find examples of how China is developing into a mixed economy system and how it competes with the U.S. for...
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Building Perspectives App
Learners explore a perspective application of the TI-73. In this middle school mathematics lesson, students view the front, back, right, and left views of a city to determine the height of each building in a city plan.
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There's No Business Like Bank Business
Students participate in a role play where they see how a bank works and how interest is paid by having money in the bank. In this bank lesson plan, students operate a bank and learn about saving, accounts, deposits, withdrawals,...
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Inflation and Money
Students define money in terms of its functions and refer back to discussion of markets and the role of money in reducing transaction costs. They give examples of types of money.
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Real People, Real Farms - Case Studies
Students study examples of sustainable farms. In this case study lesson students study real cases of farms to gain information.
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Talk Back
Students study print and TV ads and search for examples in which advertising companies rely on negative stereotypes or misleading information to market their products.
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What Can We Do?
Students generate ideas for products / services based on their own skills and think about how these could be marketed.
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Trade Creates Opportunities for Individuals
Students examine how trade can be a vehicle for the alleviation of poverty. They conduct Internet research, analyze organizations that help to alleviate poverty, and create a business plan for a micro business for a developing economy.
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Behind the Ad: The Process of Producing a Political Commerical
Students examine how advertisements are produced for political campaigns. In groups, they view various examples of different advertisements and create their own ad by completing the steps listed in the lesson plan. They share their ad...
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Distortion Unleashed
Students view examples of man-made structures and create a building that matches the style. Using the internet, they research the style of Frank Lloyd Wright and create plans for creating their own community. They use a painting of...
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A Lesson To Accompany "The First Bank of the United States: A Chapter in the History of Central Banking"
Here is an interesting topic. Learners examine the economics that led to the founding of the First Bank of America. They participate in a reader's theater experience depicting the debate between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson...
National Gallery of Canada
The Ideal Trophy
Invite your pupils to represent a club, team or other group with a trophy of their own creation. Learners examine the Taylor Cup by Laurent Amiot and then prepare trophy designs. When the sketches are complete, pupils sculpt the final...
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Giving Thanks for Food and Farms
Sarah Stewart’s The Gardener and Food from Farms by Nancy Dickmann display the importance of community farms. After reading these short picture books, class members draw connections between farms and the food we eat each day. As a...
National Woman's History Museum
Inventive Women - Part 1
While a woman didn't invent the parasol, three women received patents for their improvements to the original design of umbrellas. In the first of a two-part series on inventive women, class members investigate the patent system to...
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Spending Money
Fourth graders become familiar with the ways people exchange goods and services. In this spending money lesson, 4th graders listen to a chapter from Henry and Beezus and record Henry's earnings and money spent. Students use correct...
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Busting the Tobacco Ads.
Fifth graders recognize that tobacco companies target young people with their advertisements. In this tobacco lesson, 5th graders understand why tobacco companies target youth. Students define the word adbuster and create adbusters to...
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Earth Day Poster
Pupils promote Earth Day. In this Earth Day lesson, students create an Earth Day catch phrase and use graphic art design principles to make an Earth Day poster.
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Money, Money, Honey Bunny!
Students determine the differences between goods and services, and saving and spending. In this economics lesson, students listen to a rhyming story about a bunny with money. They play a matching game with the associated cards and work...
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Economics: Elasticity of Prices
Students discover the elasticity concepts of price, income, cross elasticity, and elasticity of supply. They apply this knowledge to an activity about Britain's Birmingham Northern Relief Road.