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Shop with Us at Whelan School

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use their math and research skills to create and manage a classroom/school store. They use a computer to manage, organize and access information. They practice pricing products, computing sales, counting money and making...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Your Budget Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What do Whoosh and Jet Stream have in common? They are both characters in a fantastic game designed to help students identify various positive and negative spending behaviors. Through an engaging activity, worksheets, and discussion,...
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Safe Drinking Water Foundation

How Water Pollution Is Cleaned Up

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
As a follow-up from the previous lesson, young environmentalists discuss the benefits of water filtration and whether or not it's the best option. Other alternatives including air stripping, bioremediation, and phytoremediation are...
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Edible GMOs?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The debate over genetically modified organisms is on! Young biologists imagine that they have been asked to choose which corn chips will be sold for a fundraiser, one made with GMOs or one without. This four-day lesson plan requires...
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Using Your Senses

For Teachers K - 1st
Here is a terrific lesson that uses a special State Quarter as a learning tool. This one uses the Alabama State Quarter. During this lesson, pupils learn about their five senses. They make observations about what is in paper bags using...
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Invest In Yourself

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn about budgeting, saving, dept, financial management, opportunity cost, and self-regulation. In this financial management lesson, students apply their knowledge of finance components and create their own web based plan...
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The Greatest Educational Change America has Ever Seen

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine the history of the penny.  In this Lincoln Bicentennial One Cent teachers guide, students connect the life of President Abraham Lincoln to the 1-cent coin in his honor through a variety of lessons and activities. 
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It's Time to Rhyme

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students listen to rhyming book, identify rhyming pairs, guess what rhyme words mean, and create list of rhyming pairs on chart paper. They then discuss Fifty States Quarters Program, identify objects on backs of state coins, and...
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Making Change for $1 And Identifying Different Bills

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this making change for one dollar and identifying different bills worksheet, students color the coins needed to make exactly $1.00 on six different lines. Students also examine how to utilize a chart to solve money problems.
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Colossal Squid Caught in Antarctic

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students define the word colossal, then read a news article about an enormous squid caught off Antarctica. In this animal studies and current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with dictionary and vocabulary activities,...
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Beethoven Manuscript Sold at Auction

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students react to a series of statements about Beethoven, then read a news article about the sale of a 179-year-old manuscript by the musical genius. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and...
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The Price of Gasoline: What's Behind It?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
When gasoline is in high demand and on short supply, OPEC can raise the price to turn a significant profit. Help learners understand the economics behind demand, profit motive, and monopolies with a lesson that focuses on OPEC and...
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Can You Compose?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate musical notes. In this music lesson, 4th graders compose a short song while clapping the rhythm and singing the syllables using the appropriate notes or rests.
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From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students listen to From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil F. Frankweiler and discuss wants and needs.  In this iincome and expenses lesson, students relate the adventures of the children in the book to a real life financial situation....
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Visualization of Rhythms in 4/4

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate musical notes. In this music lesson, 1st graders discuss the values of each note by counting the beats accordingly.
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Tiling Tessellations

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore tessellations. In this shapes and geometry instructional activity, students describe the attributes of many of the shapes displayed on an Elmo. Students create examples of tessellations using pattern blocks.
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Clouds

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Incorporate art and poetry into an early elementary science activity about cloud formation. With fun and engaging activities that follow a natural learning progression, youngsters will develop key vocabulary and conceptual understanding...
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The Business of Interest

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners learn about finance and money management and use math to solve problems, communicate, and explore real life situations as they deal with banks. In this financial management lesson, students apply their math skills to real life...
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Gas Money

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write, edit and produce resum??s and cover letters in final form.
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Businesses That Provide The Needs of Our Community

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners investigate the economy by creating a mock store in the classroom.  In this business lesson plan, students research traditional department stores and brainstorm with their classmates as to what they could sell in their "store."...
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A “Scientific” Approach to Buying a Car

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine what it takes to purchase a car and the resources out there to help find what you are looking for.  In this scientific method lesson students complete different problem solving situations.
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Living in the Community

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the differences between the four sectors of business. In this nonprofit business lesson, students give examples of needs met by businesses and the importance of the community nonprofit sector.
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Chances Are...

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars examine the probability of an event. In this probability lesson, students determine whether it is likely that an event will occur in coin flipping activities. They work with two and four coins, and one die in three...
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Finance and Responsible Lending

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students learn the characteristics of economic systems through problem solving, communication and representation. For this financial lending lesson, students use math to solve problems dealing with the economy today, to work with their...

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