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Ratios and Percents
Sixth graders practice finding percentages, converting them, and analyze percentage statistics and facts about rice. In this ratios and percentages lesson, 6th graders read information about percentages related to rice. Students complete...
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Check It Out
Pupils discuss the many processes involved with personal banking. They create their own budget based on their career choices. They also practice balancing a checkbook.
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Translating Transformations in Geometry
High schoolers create an image using given coordinates and evaluate how the coordinates change when a slide or rotation takes place.
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Beef Is Good For You
Young scholars discuss as a class the need for a healthy diet. They bring in a food product and analyze the nutrition label. Using the labels, they complete a worksheet and chart the nutrients found in beef. They use a scale to see...
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Energy Choices
Students add and multiply decimals to complete gas choice worksheets. They discover which gas supplier has the best gas prices. Students collect and interpret data about local natural gas suppliers and use this information...
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Battleship Wisconsin
Students predict what geometric shapes they think would be on the battleship; then view a picture and identify the various shapes they see. They take a tour of the battleship Wisconsin they identify various geometric shapes represented...
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Worth a Thousand Words-The Photography Essay
Students act as a public relations firm representing the school district and use photography to develop positive attitudes toward all programs. They brainstormed alternative methods to use photography and selected the photographic essay.
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Carrollton-A Study Skills Pictorial Activity Book
Fifth graders in teams select various areas of local craftwork they want to research. They are trained in photography and interviewing techniques, research the historical and current status of the craft, and interview and photograph...
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Community and Ecosystems
Students complete a unit of lessons on ecosystems. They participate in online activities, create a diorama, write journal entries, and develop a Hyperstudio multimedia project on a selected ecosystem.
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Cookie Creations
Students, in teams, create and prepare an original cookie recipe. They market their cookie by designing creative packaging and advertising. They compete with other groups in a cookie contest.
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To Market to Market
Fourth graders research a product and participate in an integrated simulation of a free market economy where students will create, buy and sell a good or service. In completing this activity, 4th graders understand the concepts and...
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Ec Ed Web: How Can Big Business Make Money From Tariffs?
In this activity, students investigate the impact of tariffs on businesses and consumers during the 1880s by looking at a political cartoon, solving a short math problem, and comparing protectionism between time periods. They then...