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Where There's Smoke, There's Fire

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore impact of smoking in workplaces. In this health awareness lesson, students act as owners and managers of different types of business locations. They develop smoking policies and defend them by responding to students...
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Celebrity Letter Writing Assignment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a biographical portfolio of the three important people. They write letters of request, asking for autographs of people in assorted fields. Students are explained that an autograph could be one of the following: A...
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Industrialization of the American Landscape

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students summarize the three sectors of industry and how these sectors applied to the Industrial Revolution. Students apply their skills in research and note-taking, as well as vocabulary building through web organizers. Students...
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Maps with a "Spin"

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students, in groups, research and map the effects of a proposed airport three miles outside of town. They prepare a presentation based on a set of maps they make and explains its different points of view from the viewpoints of the town...
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Viral Marketing

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What is "viral marketing" and how does it relate to mathematics? Young mathematicians use exponential functions to develop a mathematical model for a business advertising campaign. Learners then see how their campaigns increase...
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The Artist As Entrepreneur: Getting Down To Business: Get Organized

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the various business structures and select the best one to use in a art business plan that they have developed. They compare the benefits and risks of each business structure then discuss in small groups the merits of...
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Writing a Letter of Inquiry!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine and discuss brevity of business letters, create focused and catchy letters, and publish a typed letter that is suitable for mailing.
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BBC Learning English - Keep Your English Up to Date

For Teachers 9th - 10th
That’s showbiz! Clipping is the term used to describe one type of abbreviation of words. After listening to a talk by Professor David Crystal about this particular way English language changes, pupils supply the shortened, or clipped,...
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The Artist as Entrepreneur: Getting Down to Business: What's My Market?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a marketing plan for their artwork by analyzing their potential customers. They consider the type of art they wish to produce, the price range for the art and the type of competition that they face then develop a low...
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Business & Statistics: Final Exam

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
In this business and statistics worksheet, students read real-life business problems, arrange data, and identify the probability method best used to determine the answer. They identify the type of random sample, draw stem-and-leaf plots,...
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Willow Tree

Bar Graphs

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Circles, lines, dots, boxes: graphs come in all shapes in sizes. Scholars learn how to make a bar graph using univariate data. They also analyze data using those bar graphs.
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Arkansas and NAFTA

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Build literacy through social studies and reading strategies. This lesson plan focuses on using pre-reading, vocabulary building, and comprehension questions to boost literacy while educating learners on international trade, NAFTA, and...
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Clothes

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this parts of speech online interactive worksheet, students choose the appropriate multiple choice word to describe 9 pictures of clothing. Students type in a word to describe 3 additional pictures of clothing. Students fill in 28...
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Weather Wise

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate weather and how to forecast it. They discuss the three types of clouds and the kind of weather they bring. After setting up a database, they reearch weather-related websites to check cloud conditions and weather...
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I'm The Taxman!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars develop an understanding of how federal revenues are gained by taxes. This foundation enable students to decipher changes in federal tax policy. Groups of young scholars study different types of taxes and prepare...
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Management and Leadership

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students undertake the study of leadership theory. The skills of being a leader and manager are covered. There is a comprehensive use of real life examples throughout the lesson.
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Serving Up Reality

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the factors that go into running a restaurant and examine how the restaurant industry impacts the economy of the United States. They create skeleton proposals for new restaurants and consider the costs of this type of...
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Governments of the World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how different world governments function and interact with each other. In groups, they research one of the five types of governments. Students prepare news magazines, Powerpoint presentations, and newspaper storyboards...
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Americans with Disabilities Act

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Pupils identify the major points of the Americans with Disabilities Act. They discuss are the types of barriers that might need to be overcome in the first three Titles, the accommodations that might help overcome the barriers, and how...
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Statistical Analysis

For Students 11th - 12th
In this statistics worksheet, students analyze the data provided in order to determine the null hypothesis, an alternate hypothesis, and the significant difference between the groups.  The one page worksheet contains three scenarios with...
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The Basic Questions: What, How, and For Whom?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the various types of economic systems. As a class, they identify the three basic economic questions: what?, How?, and For Whom?. Using capitalism as an economic system, they discuss how each question is answered.
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Becoming Bilingual

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the opportunities for bilingual workers. In this bilingual skills lesson, students select a foreign language to research and list ways their languages can be used in a work setting. Students explore career opportunities...
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On the Cutting Edge

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Introduce the background of design and designers and their role in communicating their thoughts to others. In groups, you can assign participation in a writing cluster on various designers and write paragraphs to submit to magazines. To...
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College Preparatory Mathematics

Geometric Probability

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
In this geometric probability instructional activity, students solve and complete 12 different problems that include determining the outcomes of various types of probability. First, they use a tree diagram or an area model to compute the...