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The Web Of Life - Overlapping Food Chains
Young scholars perform an activity in which they discover what happens when food chains overlap in an ecosystem and discover the three components of a food web.
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What Is Technology?
Second graders engage in a literature study that is concerned with transmitting new knowledge about modern technology. They identify different forms of technology and how it is used in everyday society. The lesson includes vocabulary...
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Demand and Supply-It's What Economics Is About!
Pupils engage in research that investigates the economic concept of supply and demand. They look at the problem and how it can shift periodically in an economy. Students graph different quantities and see the shift in a visual way and...
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Cows, Worms, and Compost
Students study decomposition. For this decomposition lesson, students discuss the background information about decomposition. Students then complete the 'Chew It Twice' worksheet.
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What's in a Name
High schoolers compare two products and determine which is a better choice in terms of certain parameters. In this forestry lesson, students calculate the price of two different toothpick products. They decide which of the two is a...
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Aquatic Ecosystems
Students study ponds and wetland ecosystems and examine the food chains and webs in them. For this aquatic ecosystems lesson students answer questions about the diversity of the flora and fauna in a pond.
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Ecology - Ecosystem
Third graders research ecosystems, the work of ecologists, John Muir's contribution to the environment and an endangered species of their choice. They read books, participate in discussions, and write reports.
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Who Benefits From Trade?
Young scholars work together in groups to determine the benefits of a product. They discuss how their product relates to statements given to them by their teacher. They present their findings to the class.
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Explore the Food Web
Young scholars identify plants and animals in the journals of Lewis and Clark's expedition. They describe the various animal habits. Students interpret the behaviors of the animals discovered on the expedition. They design a food web...
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March Market
Students role play a living wetland food web. They trace the food web associated with the items in their lunch.
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Credit Cards: Buy Now, Pay Later
Students comprehend that when they use a credit card, they are taking out a loan from the issuer of the card. They access that if a card is paid in full each month, there is no cost for using the credit card. However, if the borrower is...
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Costs & Benefits
Students reinforce the concept of the true costs being what is given up by doing something -- normally referred to as opportunity costs.
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Uses of Coal
Students be aware of the products made possible by coal by studying about the four major markets of coal: electric utilities, industrial/retail users, the steel industry and exports.
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Coal and The Kentucky Economy
Students read about and study what an economy is. Students then answer questions that require them to define what an economy is and list the components of a healthy economy. Students also list two ways that coal helps the Kentucky...
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Variables That Can Affect Making Schedule
Students study the variables that affect transportation of shipments and the factors that affect deterioration of a perishable product. In this transportation lesson students discuss the pros and cons of team driving.
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Microeconomics Summary
Twelfth graders study microeconomics. In this Economics lesson, 12th graders draw graphs on government taxes. Students decide if these graphs are true or false.
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Spraying Strawberries
Students decide how many times to spray a strawberry crop. They apply marginal analysis and discover the "law of diminishing returns."
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Growing and Changing
Third graders discuss how their major life roles change as they get older and fill out a worksheet.
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Nebraska's Profile of Character
Fourth graders conduct Internet research on George W. Norris and identify his accomplishments. They analyze their research information, list George W. Norris's character traits, and create a flipbook.
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Mildred Brown: "Community Treasure" Hunt
Fourth graders delve into a hunt for information on an African American activist from the state of Nebraska. Primary and secondary sources of data are utilized in this search.
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The Artist as Entrepreneur
Students compare the entrepreneurial process in business and in the art world. They create a scenario of a business opportunity and solution based on a product from a catalog then they research how several successful artists have found...
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Microorganism Multiplication
Seventh graders complete two experiments to learn about harmful and helpful microorganisms. In this microorganisms lesson, 7th graders read background information about fungi, yeast, and club fungi. Students then complete two experiments...
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Economics Using SimCity 2000
Fifth graders build a city and balance a budget for the population.
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Ecology
Fourth graders research an ecosystem and its endangered species. They create a PowerPoint Presentation, oral report, poster or a booklet based on their research. They research on the internet and in biology texts in teams of 4.
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