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Media Education Lab

Sponsored Content as Propaganda

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What is sponsored content? Who produces sponsored content? Why? Is it fair or unfair? What are the privacy implications for consumers? To answer these questions, class members view a model screencast before crafting their own that...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Creating Chains and Webs to Model Ecological Relationships

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The sustainability of an ecosystem depends on many factors and changes constantly. Young scholars consider these factors as they use a set of cards to create food webs. They review key scientific vocabulary such as predator, prey,...
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Federal Reserve Bank

It's Your Paycheck

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Beyond reading and arithmetic, one of the most important skills for graduating seniors to have is fiscal literacy and responsibility. Start them on the right financial track with nine lessons that focus on a variety of important...
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Gobal Oneness Project

Passionate Pursuits

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Not all technology is digital. Teach learners about the low-tech maker movement with a photo essay about six artisans from California and two articles about the local creator movement. After tackling the photo essay in small...
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Curated OER

Saturday Sancocho

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify the economic principles and processes that are helpful to producers and consumers when making good decisions. Students will read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate literary text as well as explain how...
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Curated OER

The Pumpkin Patch - A Venture in Agritourism

For Teachers 4th - 8th
After reading an article about how agritourism is helping boost the financial stability of local farms, middle schoolers answer comprehension questions. This is a case-study of Canadian pumpkin producers. It could be useful as a...
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Carnegie Mellon University

Nuclear Energy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Extensive background material, clear objectives, and more are provided to help you teach an introduction to nuclear power. Learners will be able to explain how nuclear power is generated and how it compares to coal-created power. Provide...
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Curated OER

Animal Rights Vs. Animal Welfare - Understanding the Issue

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore the difference between animal rights and animal welfare. They take a field trip to a farm to explore the producing animals for human use. After researching and collecting information from animal welfare/rights...
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Curated OER

Marine Ecosystems

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars identify producers and consumers and construct a food chain from four marine ecosystems. They describe the delicate balance among organisms in each environment. In groups, students discuss the human activities that upset...
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Curated OER

Stoichiometry

For Students 10th - 12th
In this stoichiometry instructional activity, students use balanced equations for chemical reactions to determine the percent yield and the mass of product produced. This instructional activity has five problems to solve.
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Curated OER

Sea Turtles and Nesting Behavior

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the nesting behavior used by sea turtles and explain how these behaviors are beneficial in the survival of a species. They discuss the advantages and disadvantages that sea turtles have be mass nesting. They identify...
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Curated OER

Market Basics: Demand, Supply, and Price Determination

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are introduced to the concepts of supply and demand. Using the Law of Demand and Supply, they develop charts and graphic models of supply and demand. They compare and contrast the behavior of consumers and suppliers when...
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WindWise Education

Are Birds Impacted by Small Wind Turbines?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
How do we know if the wind turbine at our school is impacting birds? Here, small groups work together and conduct field work in order to determine the impact of a human-made structure on birds. The groups also determine their searcher...
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Curated OER

Food Chains

For Students 10th - 11th
In this chemistry worksheet, students watch a movie about food chains and use it to respond to each of the questions stated. They use the list of works in the word banks to assist them in matching the correct term to its description.
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Curated OER

Spedwards

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discuss what makes up a community. Students elect officials of their community and complete an application for the position. Students research jobs within the community and hold a job fair where parents come to school and share...
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Curated OER

The Soviet Choice For Growth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine five major events in Soviet History to introduce the concept of opportunity cost. They identify considered alternatives at the time of decision and examine benefits and cost. They apply these ideas to a typical school day.
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Curated OER

Lessons: Food Web

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars use an interactive web-based food web game to gain familiarity with tropic levels and interactions. They already understand that in an ecosystem there are four basic tropic levels: producers, primary consumers, secondary...
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Curated OER

Insect Travel Brochure

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore the concept of insects and their habitats.  In this insect habitat lesson, students create travel brochures for particular insects.  Students must include habitat, producers, and consumers with in the vacation...
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Curated OER

Producer to Consumer Fun

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the world of economics. In this economics lesson, students examine literature and participate in discussions to learn about production and consumption. Students are encouraged to visit a farm or tour a factory to...
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Curated OER

The Free Trade Conundrum: Balancing Worker Wages and Consumer Prices Comparing the 19th and 21st Centuries

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Exploring the concepts of free trade and protectionism, students compare and contrast 19th and 21st century arguments for and against the tariff.
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Curated OER

Numbers That Make News

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this Numbers activity, learners read an article about the numbers typically seen in news then answer seven questions based on the reading.
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Curated OER

Lesson 11: Lowell Workers and Producers Respond to Incentives

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students explore concept of supply and demand and how changes in supply affect price and quantity of goods.
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Shelby County Schools

How Ecosystems Work

For Students 6th - 9th
How does one organism get its energy? What is the main source of energy in an ecosystem? How does the flow of energy affect different types of ecosystems? Answer these questions with a fill-in-the-blank worksheet. 
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Science Geek

Build a Food Web Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Entangle your life science class in learning with this collaborative food web activity. Using pictures of the plants and animals native to a particular ecosystem, young biologists work in small groups to construct visual...

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