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Doctor's Dilemma: Advocacy for Whom?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate why doctors feel torn between patients and insurance companies. They examine the health care system and how it affects patients. They discuss one's ability to afford health insurance as well.
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Payroll Deductions/ Sequential Order of Words in a Sentence.

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students who are adult ESOL learners examine pay stubs and determine how payroll deductions are spent on services and company benefits. While looking at a pay stub they complete a worksheet. They focus on the proper sequence of words in...
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Government Spending: Why Do We Spend the Way We Do?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine the categories for federal spending using the internet to locate them. They create a list of expenditures noting them as government purchases or transfer payments. They analyze the patterns of spending during the...
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Uncle Jed's Barbershop

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine productive resources. In this economics lesson, 4th graders read a book about a man who saves money to buy his own barbershop. After reading, students get into groups to play a game to learn about savings.
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Less Than Zero

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students keep track of money. In this money management lesson, students read Less Than Zero by Stuart J. Murphy and manipulate a number line to keep track of spending and borrowing in the story.
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How Markets Work

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the role of government in the economy market. For this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are trying to...
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Money and Banking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the role of government in the economy market. For this economics lesson, students analyze the decision making and how it takes into consideration additional cost, benefits and public awareness of what they are trying to...
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Ronald Reagan

For Students 7th - 12th
In this online interactive history instructional activity, learners respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about the achievements of Ronald Reagan. Students may check some of their answers on the interactive instructional...
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Provincial Showdown

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read an article that compares the provinces of Canada and asks students to suggest reasons why other countries should invest in Canada.
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Slick Moves: Exploring the Controversial Plan to Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recount their knowledge of natural resources and articulate their understanding of the multi- faceted debate that surrounds drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. They then examine the complexity of drilling in the...
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Interactive
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Work Discussion Questions

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this questions about work worksheet, students read and answer the 12 questions about jobs, working and unemployment.
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Commonly Confused Words Worksheet 1

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar instructional activity, students practice identifying commonly confusing words in two passages and correct the twenty mistakes on the lines provided.
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Nonprofit or For-Profit?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discuss different community organizations. In this philanthropy lesson, students define for-profit and nonprofit organizations. They identify examples of both and discuss the common themes and characteristics of each group.
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Percentage of a Number

For Students 4th - 7th
In this percentages practice worksheet, learners read an instructional section regarding percents and then solve 16 problems where they must find a given percent of a specific number. Students also solve 4 percent word problems.
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Nonprofit or For-Profit?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this philanthropy lesson, students compare and contrast nonprofit and for-profit organizations.
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Expensive Choices

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders work in pairs to discover how to prioritize expenses in a budget.
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Hey, Mom! What's for Breakfast?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine how he world eats breakfast. In this food choices lesson, students work in groups to list breakfast foods and their ingredients and find goods and consumers on the list. The, students use the Internet to complete a...
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New Equilibrium

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this economics practice instructional activity, students respond to 16 questions that require them to use their problem solving skills to identify equilibrium points.
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Who Does the Lottery Benefit?

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students investigate the pros and cons of the lottery. In this algebra lesson, students use the formulas for permutation and combination to test their arguments about the lottery. They collect data about their argument and plot it on a...
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Vocabulary Review - Money

For Students 5th
In this vocabulary review - money instructional activity, 5th graders interactively complete 15 sentences by selecting the correct word about money and finances with immediate online feedback.
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Home Sweet Home

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this Pilgrims worksheet, learners analyze 12 pictures of common household items. Students circle all the pictures that show something that would have been found in a Pilgrim home.
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Regular Plural Nouns

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this noun activity, students complete 12 questions in which they write singular nouns in plural form. The first 5 questions are sentences which contain an underlined noun that must be made plural. The next 7 questions are sentences in...
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The New Deal

For Teachers 8th - 11th
For this 1930s American history worksheet, students study the New Deal as they write 10 vocabulary terms that match 10 definitions, rewrite 4 false statements as true statements, and explain 2 historical themes regarding this time period...
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The Progressives

For Teachers 8th - 11th
In this Progressive Era worksheet, students review a chapter as they read 10 descriptions identifying who or what is speaking, respond to 4 short answer questions, and explain a historical theme regarding this time period in United...

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