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If Those Dolls Were Real People

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore shape perceptions. In this body image lesson, students take measurements of childrens' toys and use ratios to determine what the dolls would look like if they were real human people. Students discuss the implications of...
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What Is the Influence?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students investigate propaganda techniques. In this media awareness lesson plan, students watch instructor-selected commercial clips and use the provided propaganda handouts to identify the propaganda techniques used in each of them.
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Are We under the Influence? A First Look

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners explore propaganda techniques. In this media awareness lesson plan, students watch instructor-selected commercial clips and identify the propaganda techniques used in each of them using the provided propaganda handouts.
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Are We under the Influence? A Second Look

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners explore propaganda techniques. In this media awareness lesson, students watch instructor-selected commercial clips and identify the propaganda techniques used in each of them using the provided propaganda handouts.
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Script Reading

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate propaganda techniques. In this media awareness instructional activity, students watch drug commercial clips and identify the purpose of pacing in advertising. 
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Recognizing Advertising Techniques

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore advertising techniques. In this media awareness lesson, students read articles about foods and their links to childhood obesity. Students also discuss propaganda techniques that advertisers use to sell certain foods. 
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A Growing Market

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research plants and the bedding plant industry and then make a list of materials they need to plant seeds. In this planting lesson plan, students then plant their seeds, chart their progress, and write what they have learned.
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Exploring the Stock Market

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students explore their options in stocks. For this algebra lesson, students create a portfolio for their future in stocks. they discuss their choices with a broker and presents their portfolio to the class.
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Make Your Fortune in Stocks

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a stock investment activity in which they research stocks to place in an imaginary portfolio. They invest $10,000 in a variety of stocks and track their progress using the Internet or newspapers.
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Worksheet Web

Analyzing the Text

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Practice analyzing informational text with a reading passage that details the Great Depression. Scholars read about the impacts of World War I, the Roaring Twenties, and the Depression, then answer 10 true or false questions. 
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Kenan Fellows

Farm to Fuel: The Alternative Fuels Industry

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Need a activity to fuel young minds? A variety of hands-on activities is sure to get your class fired up! Beginning with an introductory slideshow and culminating with group presentations, the week-long unit has something for everyone....
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What Drives the Stock Prices?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students see that earnings drive stock prices. More importantly, students look for earnings growth from the continuing operations of a business.
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Alabama Department of Archives and History

The Great Depression - Hard Times Hit America

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
To gain an understanding of how the Great Depression affected everyday citizens, class members examine letters written either to the president or to the governor of Alabama asking for assistance.
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Visa

Saving and Investing

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Impress upon your young adults the importance of saving and investing, and give them a foundational vocabulary from which they can continue to build their financial literacy. This lesson plan covers short- and long-term budget goals,...
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Handout
Tutorials Point India Private

E-Commerce Tutorial

For Students 9th - 12th
How does electronic commerce benefit organizations, customers, and society? Scholars read about e-commerce as it applies to modern business practices in an informative tutorial. Pupils also discover different types of  business models in...
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Made In...

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate where their own items of clothing were manufactured. They read their clothing labels and identify the countries, and plot the locations with pins on a large world map.
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Entrepreneur: Serving the Mature Adult

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders recognize the needs of older consumers for certain products. They apply creativity skills to develop a product that meets the needs of older consumers. In the end, they do a verbal presentation for a group of older consumers.
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Pure Monopoly

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
For this Pure Monopoly worksheet, students complete a table and graphs, make calculations and predictions, and answer several questions in short answers.
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Supply Curves, Moves Along Supply Curves, and Shifts in Supply Curves

For Students 11th - 12th
Have your class explore the topic of supply and demand using this resource. Learners read background information, plot information on a graph, solve problems, and answer questions about this topic.
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PPT
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Today's World

For Teachers 10th - 11th
While not an exhaustive review of globalization and trade, this overview of the inter-related nature of the economy would be a good tool to use in the classroom. This resource could be used to begin a discussion on the various topics...
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Carolina K-12

The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy

For Teachers 10th Standards
How does the Fed manipulate the money supply in the United States? After reading a comic book on monetary policy and answering guided questions, your class members will participate in an interactive online simulation in which they will...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Traditional Versus Shadow Banking

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Here is a detailed breakdown of the traditional banking system, including the roles that intermediaries play as brokers and in making loans, as well as an introduction to the parallel system of shadow banking.
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Corn Exports Visually

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study imports and exports and the countries that import the most corn from the U.S. They construct mini paper corn plants and label a map with these plants to represent the amount of corn the U.S. exports to countries around the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Economic Health Indicators: GDP and CPI Worksheet

For Students 11th - 12th
Examine the nation's economic health using this GDP and CPI activity, which features helpful graphic depictions of complex concepts. The first 2 pages include 17 short-answer questions intended to guide reading from a text (not...

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