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History of Toys and Games

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students research history of popular toys to learn when those toys were first introduced. They use measurement skills to create an accurate timeline.
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Build What I've Created

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
n this geometric lesson, students define and identify two dimensional shapes based on their attributes. They complete worksheets based on the geometric concepts.
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Residential Power System

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Perform data analysis on energy consumption to apply algebraic expressions to the real world. Learners will write and solve equations that answer various questions from residential power use. They will collect data at home and calculate...
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The Influence of Advertising

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Pupils become informed consumers and citizens with this lesson on the influence of advertising, identifying basic advertising techniques and discriminating between fact and claim in modern advertisements and commercials.
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How Do You Profit From Trading Stocks?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students calculate gains and losses of stock portfolios. Although the Global Stock Game (GSG) calculates profits and losses automatically, students should learn the basic math skills in calculating their stock investment the...
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Elementary Statistics in Life

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine newspapers for graphs. They collect and sort data that is of interest to them. They enter data into a database and make comparisons using the information.
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Mice Rule!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils explain what biodiversity is and how adaptive features are maintained in a population.  In this biodiversity instructional activity students complete a simple activity involving mouse populations.
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-The Wheels on the Bus

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read The Wheels on the Bus by Maryann Kovalski. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of travel and transportation. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and...
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Hit the Trail

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read about the history of cattle trails and complete language arts, math, social studies, and more activities about barbed wire. In this barbed wire lesson plan, students read poetry, research changes over time, draw cattle...
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Basic Budgeting

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students create a personal budget.  In this creating a personal budget lesson, students create a list of 3 necessary things they need to survive.  Students rank these things in order of importance and determine their cost.  Students...
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Coin Identification

For Teachers K
Students identify each coin. In this coin identification lesson, students note the pictures that are on each coin. Students are shown pictures that are on each coin and recall the coin by using the pictures.
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Grid and Percent It

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore percent. In this percent lesson, students investigate how to represent percentages on a hundreds grid. Working independently, students solve mathematical problems involving percentages.
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Can I Afford This Apartment?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of cost of living. In this cost of living lesson, students calculate the cost of living in an apartment along with other living expenses.
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The Leaves in October

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students determine whether or not to save or spend and defend a decision.  In this personal finance lesson, students identify opportunity cost of various spending and saving decisions. Students read a story where two girls share profits...
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Moving Out

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students determine their cost of living.  In this determining their cost of living lesson, students think of ten necessary things they would need if they moved out of their parents house.  Students research the cost of renting an...
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File Card Bridges

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make different variations of file card bridges and predict how much weight it will hold. In this file card bridges lesson plan, students put file cards between books in different ways and predict how many pennies it will hold.
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Eratosthenes And Radius of the Earth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners calculate the radius of the earth. They use the method and data suggested by Eratosthenes. They investigate the interrelationships among mass, distance, force, and time through experimental processes.
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Finding Mass

For Teachers 8th
Student measure mass to discover how pennies have changed in their composition. In this measurement lesson, 8th graders investigate through an open-ended problem to discover how the US pennies composition changed in the 1980's.
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Financial Planning

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students research possible careers. They determine typical starting income for the career. Using collected information, students develop a budget for their starting income. Students consider car payments and research the process of...
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Handling Data: Probability

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders find and justify probabilities and approximations.  In this repeating experiment, 4th graders complete a worksheet after rolling die and tossing coins to determine outcomes.
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A Penny for Your Height

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate measurement.  In this fifth/sixth grade mathematics lesson, students explore the relationship between inches and centimeters.  Students measure their height in inches or centimeters and convert the measurement. 
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The Federal Reserve

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the role of government in the economy market. In 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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Comparing Linear and Exponential Functions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Teach your class how to differentiate between linear and exponential functions. They use exponential properties to solve problems, graph them using the TI-Navigator, and make comparisons.
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Decisions, Decisions

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars open their own financial management consulting firm, which offers a variety of financial advice. They prepare a financial plan for a simulated client.