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Mr. Popper's Penguin's

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders locate Antarctica and recognize it as the setting of Mr. Popper's Penguins. For this Mr. Popper's Penguins lesson, 4th graders understand the financial decisions made by Mr. Popper. Students discuss wise spending. Students...
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Ratios, Proportions and Percents

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders complete 3 activities centered around percents. In this ratios, proportions and percents lesson, 5th graders create designs on grid paper that illustrate a variety of percents, solve percent problems mentally, and use...
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Spend, Save, Invest or Donate (9-12)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of personal finance. In this philanthropy lesson, students examine decisions they make about money as they discover the definitions of philanthropy, resources, scarcity, choice, benefits, costs, opportunity...
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Market Structure and Competition

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students explore the role of government in the economy market. In this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are trying to...
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Buying and Selling Stocks

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students access prior knowledge of the stock market and how it works. For this buying and selling stocks lesson, students complete worksheets on stocks to understand how the stock market works. Students answer critical thinking questions...
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Government Goods and Services

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the connection between taxes and government services.  In this economics lesson, 5th graders discuss the process and benefits of paying sales and income taxes.  Using calculators, students compute the...
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Market Structures and Competition

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Learners explore the role of government in the economy market. In this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are trying to...
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Convert among decimals, fractions, and percents

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders convert among decimals, percents, and fraction with and without a calculator.  In this seventh grade mathematics lesson, 7th graders explore strategies that help them to remember how to perform the needed operation...
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Let's Go To Mexico

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students are able to use the Internet to conduct research. They research Mexican culture and traditions. Students compare and contrast Mexican and U.S. food and clothing. They convert United States currency to Mexican pesos. Students...
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M & M Interesting

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compute and collect interest payments in the form of M&M candies. In this mathematics instructional activity, students work in small groups to compute either simple or compound interest. They compare the growth of their...
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Natural Inspiration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars relate math to the real world. In this algebra lesson plan, students compare plants to math and relate their artistic ability to concepts in math. They draw pictures of flowers, leaves and trees.
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Accounting Monopoly Simulation

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders make journal entries of the transactions (instead of exchanging money) during a Monopoly game on day one of the lesson. They post on day two and create worksheets/correct errors on day three.
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The Ice Cream Stands Problem

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders pretend to set up an ice cream shop in a make believe town of shapes.  In this geometry lesson, 10th graders work together to put up an ice cream stand in an ideal location and solve for the minimum given the...
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M&M Interesting

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the concepts of trade-offs and opportunity cost to decide between savings accounts with simple interest and those with compound interest. They calculate interest earned on account balances while working in...
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How Probable is It?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore probability. For this probability lesson, students look at videos and websites where they discover probability facts that can be used in situations. They determine the probability of different events. 
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Piece by Piece

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study quilts. In this history/geometry quilt lesson, students discover the history behind quilt making and get a chance to make quilt blocks of their own. They work independently to make a quilt block out of construction paper...
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Perfectly Puzzling Pentominoes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders utilize manipulatives (pentominoes) to demonstrate knowledge of: lines of symmetry, slides, reflections (flips), rotations (turns), area, and perimeter. This lesson gives students a meaningful way to practice these...
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Earth Day - Hooray

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students listen to the story, Earth Day - Hooray!, and discuss the story as it is being read.  In this Earth Day lesson, students discuss incentives and penalties in regards to taking care of the Earth.  This lesson plan also...
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It's a Sale!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make good decisions about making purchases of items on sale and explain how percentages effect cost.
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Rationals

For Students 9th
For this rational numbers worksheet, 9th graders solve 14 various types of problems relating to rational numbers that include simplifying each equation and reducing to lowest terms to using the order of operations to simplify equations....
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Literacy Activity: Mouse Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners listen to the book Mouse Shapes and identify the shapes in the book as it is being read. In this shapes lesson, students identify the shapes in the book, and then play with cut out shapes that they can hold in their hands.
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Calculating and Applying Basic Probability

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate the basic concepts of probability. In this probability lesson, 8th graders learn the associated probability. They work with spinners, colored cubes in a bag, flip coins, and choose colored candies while they...
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Maps

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate threee types of maps. In this algebra instructional activity, students idenitfy different maps and explore how they relate to the area keeping cllimate and topography in mind. They discuss maps used to navigate...
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Accounting

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Learners create bank reconciliation spreadsheet. In this algebra lesson, students discuss the basics about business, money and bank accounts. They use a bank reconciliation statement correctly.