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Stamps are Making News

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students analyze the cost of mailing a letter since 1917, then read a news article about the increasing stamp price and new Star Wars stamps that will be available. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a...
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Idiom Quizzes - Money

For Students 5th - 6th
In this identifying meanings of idioms online/interactive learning exercise, students choose idioms to replace the expressions in parentheses in sentences. Students choose 30 answers.
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Spending - Maintaining the skill of money

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice making change with money. In this subtraction lesson, 3rd graders watch a video about money. Students investigate what it means to earn money, spend it, and find their change.
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Interpreting an Auto Insurance Policy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students interpret an insurance policy. They are given a scenario to interpret. Students use the policy to answer questions. They are asked if the insurance is going to cover the damage to Ralph's Ices. Students are asked how much...
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How much money can you earn?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders survey how to manage money and the importance of it. Students summarize that each day they have the opportunity to earn or lose money. Students provides many situations to present ways of paying bills and money management.
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Lesson Four - Making Change

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice making change. In this money lesson, students complete worksheets in which they find the amount of change they would receive from a dollar bill amount. Students go online and play games on this same concept. 
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Multiplication & Division by 2-digit Whole Number (2.3)

For Students 4th - 6th
In this multiplication and division worksheet, students multiply and divide by two-digit whole numbers to find the products and quotients. Students solve thirteen number problems and word problems.
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Value of Education: Education and Earning Power

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students explore the concept a higher education yields higher earnings. Throughout the class, students visit six workstations and examine occupations, education, salaries, spending, banking, and taxes. As students rotate through the...
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Checks and Balances

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students examine how bank checks work and follow the "journey" of a written check. They discuss how transactional accounts work, identify and discuss the various parts of a check, and participate in a simulated business transaction...
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Counting Change

For Students 4th - 5th
In this counting change worksheet, learners read information about making and counting change. Students then solve 4 problems that require them to draw coins for the correct amount of change in different buying situations. 
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Money Vocabulary

For Students 4th - 5th
For this money worksheet, students look at 5 pictures and name each one, walk around the room find somebody that fits 6 scenarios and match 10 verbs in bold print with their appropriate phrases in grey.
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Should vs. Would Rather Exercise

For Students 5th - 6th
In this should vs. would worksheet, students look at the two listed activities and create a compound sentence stating what they should or what they would rather do.
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Real Math

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore careers that require math knowledge and solve real life math problems. As a class, they compare and contrast classroom math to real life math and explore the links between algebra, geometry and math skills used in...
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Solar Energy

For Students 8th - 10th
For this solar energy worksheet, students read about the uses of solar energy, the benefits and the costs. They answer four critical thinking questions about solar energy.
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Shopping

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students demonstrate how to count money through a simulated shopping experience. In this consumer math lesson, students read the book Just Shopping With Mom and count play money to illustrate how much the items in the book cost.
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Father Knows Best, Write a Father's Day Letter

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students write a Father's Day letter. In this friendly letter writing lesson, students brainstorm a list of parent responsibilities, then write three specific ways their fathers care for them. Students share learning experiences they...
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Buy or Lease an Automobile

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners gather information on 3 new cars they would like to buy or lease, and use mathematical comparisons to decide whether to buy or lease the car.
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Preposition Worksheet 1

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in forty blanks with the appropriate preposition that makes each one grammatically correct.
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Pets are Popular with U.S. Presidents

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discuss their pets and read about pets that have lived in the White House. In this current events instructional activity, the teacher introduces the article with a vocabulary activity and pet survey, then the students read the...
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Getting an Apartment

For Students 4th - 6th
In this online/interactive vocabulary worksheet, students use the words and phrases bank to fill in the blanks and complete the sentences. Students write 10 answers.
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Energy in a Clean Environment

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify and describe the different types of energy and how it is transferred.  In this energy lesson plan students complete several activities including how to calculate joules, adding up wattage, and create a presentation...
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ESL Teacher

For Students Higher Ed
In this civics worksheet, students read a paragraph about an ESL teacher who is pregnant. They answer five true/false questions about the paragraph. Students write a paragraph describing one way to solve the problem that is presented in...
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"Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students estimate the costs related to the character's expenses in the novel, Homecoming. They draw conclusions based on the estimations.
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Images of Black Women in Drama

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine different portrayals of African American women in poems and plays. Individually, they identify the character they want to play and reject the others. After acting out the scene, they hopefully realize that their...