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Money Matters: the Importance of Global Cooperation

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore the role of the International Monetary fund.  In this secondary Economics lesson, students focus on the history, mission, and structure of the IMF.  Students examine the past and continuing contributions of the...
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World Fair? A Global Classroom Unit On Economic Rights

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students explore economic rights of people. After listening to statements and songs by people such as John Lennon and Mahatma Ghandi, students examine the truths and values depicted by each person. Students participate in a simulation to...
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External Shocks To the Global Economy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify at least four types of external shock to the global economy, recognise at least three possible effects of the rise in oil prices on firms and the economy, and prepare arguments both for and against.
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Global Environmental Issues: Air and Water Pollution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Thinking about designing a project for your social studies or environmental science classes? Use an overview of a project that prompts class groups to research an environmental issue.
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Western Civilizations, Chapter 27: The Cold War: Global Politics, Economic Recovery, and Cultural Change

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
Keep your scholars organized using this study plan and progress report tool, one of many great learning strategies featured in this online western civilizations resource! Although designed for use alongside the Western Civilizations...
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The Rise and Fall

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students take a closer look at the global industrial economy. In this current events lesson, students listen to a lecture about the infrastructure of the global economy, specifically how it affects Britain's Rover company. Students...
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Walking the Talk

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students research production, consumptions, and disposal of everyday items and their ecological impacts. In this sustainable economics lesson, students discuss clothing and various items used everyday in groups. Students then study a...
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The CPI and You

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine the consumer price index (CPI). In this economics lesson, students explore how the cost of living and inflation indicate the CPI. Students complete activity worksheets in this lesson.
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I'm Dreaming of a Sustainable Christmas

For Teachers 5th - 11th
Students examine global trade. In this global economics lesson, students visit websites to learn about trade with China and the environmental damage of global trade.
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Lesson Plan on Intellectual Property: Combating Piracy in China

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine how counterfeit goods undermine the economy. In this global issues instructional activity, students examine economic principles. Students discuss how international piracy and property rights undermine trade as they...
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Global Job Hopping

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine basic trade terms and data about the economies of countries increasingly used as outsources for American jobs.
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Some Like It Cold

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study Canada's northern territories and four settlements above the Arctic Circle. In this northern Canada lesson, 6th graders maps and timelines to locate physical, political, and economic features of northern Canada....
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Rights for Indigenous People

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students consider how to fight poverty. In this global issues lesson, students define indigenous communities and participate in an activity that requires them to allocate funds to end poverty among the indigenous in Papua New Guinea.
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The Process Of Stable Growth And Development

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the economic growth of established and third world countries. They conduct research with compiling statistics taken from the OECD, The World Bank, and the IMF. The lesson includes notes to help the teacher present...
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Sand Dollars

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars debate the issues of economic prosperity, cultural preservation and environmental preservation by examining the development of land in the Bahamas.
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Oil Market Basics

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the global oil market through a web-quest. In this oil market instructional activity, students conduct a web-quest to gather information related to the global oil market then design and make a mural.
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Literacy as a Force in the World

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners research and compare economic factors and data mining in Nepal. Students look at data to determine how the Nepalese quality of life compares to other countries and predict whether the literacy rate indicates or influences the...
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Economies

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students discover different economic systems. In this global economy instructional activity, students research the levels of economic activity, types of economies, maquiladoras and the differences between a free market economy and other...
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International Trade, Part I, Protectionism

For Students 9th - 12th
In this economics activity, students define economic terms related to international trade and diagram domestic trade problems.
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Why Nations Trade

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of international trade. In this economics lesson, students read the 2 provided handouts about international trade and then discuss their content. 
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The Haitian Crisis: Thinking Historically

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students analyze the 2010 earthquake's effects on Haiti. In this Economics lesson, students brainstorm the problems caused in Haiti by the earthquake. Students listen to interviews with scholars to identify additional answers to focus...
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Why Are Some Nations Wealthy?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students analyze collected date to determine if selected nations are poor or rich. They list the nations in order from richest to poorest and discuss factors for long-term growth.
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One Dollar Around the World

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders collaborate via ePals with another student from another country. They compare the value of a dollar with its power of acquisition in other countries. They list one dollar items and find the corresponding price in other...
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Civil Rights and Casualties of Wartime

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Do your historians fully grasp the consequences of being at war? Help them connect past with present through this group research activity, which has students analysing repercussions suffered by citizens of countries in conflict. Students...