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Profit, Loss and Value Added
Students discover the meaning of profit and identify different types of profits. They examine the functions of profit in a business. They discuss the basic forces behind a market system.
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Who Am I? Exploring Identity
Students define identity, consider who they are/what they value, explore the work of two photographers featured on an upcoming episode of EGG THE ARTS SHOW to see how they have dealt with the issue of identity, and respond using...
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Values Clarification
Students examine their values and what is important to them. They define value, list what is important to them, prioritize the list of values, write a sentence for each value on the list, create a diagram of their number one value, and...
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Quarter Combos
Young scholars play a review game that allows them to practice identifying coins and their values and create coin combinations that equal 25 cents.
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Money Match
Students review coin identification and play a game in which they must match a coin to its value.
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Trading Faces
Students use addition to determine values of coin combinations. They play a game where they come up with possible trades: two nickels for a dime and complete a tally worksheet. There are other lessons in this unit.
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Wonderful Wetlands
Fourth graders create a model of Utah wetlands using clay, sponges and soil. They identify the value the wetlands have to plants and animals. They simulate rainfall to observe how wetlands help filter silt and pollutants from the water.
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Color Principles - Hue, Saturation, and Value
High schoolers identify different color models and the application of the color theory. They create different visualizations that compare color models.
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Three Wishes
Second graders make three wishes in order to help them decide what is important to them and compare it to what is important to others.
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Personality Development
Students participate in a variety of activities to help them define their own personalities. They complete questionnaires, play personality Bingo, and compare kaleidoscopes and candy to the variety found in humans.
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Decision Making
High schoolers read and discuss a story about decision making. They consider the role of self-awareness and personal values in decision making.
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The Price is Right, So Let's Make Change
Young scholars estimate, calculate, and count back the amount of change needed from purchases made during small group activities.
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The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Courage
Learners provide examples of Crane's treatment of the "manly virtues" associated with war using support from the text of The Red Badge of Courage. They describe the three published endings of The Red Badge of Courage and the difference...
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Values And Attitudes
Students identify some of the skills and attitudes that are essential for solving problems effectively. This lesson is designed to introduce students to the important habits of mind that one must develop in order to solve problems...
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Your Vote Counts! Election Activity
Students participate in a simulated election. They serve as 'checkers', marking off names of those who vote, a ballot person hands out ballots, and ballot sorters and counters. Teacher rigs up a voting booth where voters mark ballots...
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Introducing money (Elementary, Mathematics)
Students study the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, one each day for four days, using a magnifying glass to identify the similarities. Then students discuss differences and value and learn a 'rap' to memorize values.
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How Much for Your Name?
Learners create different coin combinations for a single amount, practice counting, demonstrate their knowledge of the value of coins and demonstrate their knowledge of coin combinations.
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Valuing Our Differences
Students discuss the different components of culture. In this values lesson, students create a new language that their group must be able to speak. They share what they have learned from this experience.
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The Two Sides of Rejection
Students recall a time when they were rejected or when they rejected somebody. For this values lesson, students brainstorm the positive and negative impacts of rejection. They recommend ways to deal with the situation effectively.
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Recognizing Strength
Students identify their individual strengths. In this values lesson, students create a collage to show their positive qualities as an individual. They share this to the group.
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Values in a Multicultural Society
Students list personal values that are important to them. In this values instructional activity, students reflect about values they learned during childhood. They discuss the different factors affecting their current beliefs.
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Do You Value That Digit?
Sixth graders explore the term digit using large number and comma cards as they create numbers. In this digit value lesson, 6th graders identify the value of digits in large numbers and receive additional practice with the new terms to...
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Understanding Self-Injury
Students brainstorm about the topic of self-injury, then read a fictional letter and discuss the issues involved. In this health lesson, students select possible responses from a set of cards and determine the effect of the responses. In...
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Exponents
For this exponents worksheet, 8th graders solve and complete 10 different problems related to various exponents. They rewrite a number and exponent into expanded form. Then, students write the value of the given expressions in 4 of the...