Teach Engineering
Bridging the Gaps
The London Bridge should not have fallen down. And here's why. After a brief history of bridges and the three main types, class members are introduce to the concepts of tension and compression, the two main forces acting upon bridges.
Eye On Education
I Say Tomato, You Say To-Mah-To
Turn your junior high talkers into effective arguers. Introduce these budding lawyers to skills that show how to support a claim, decide what clear reason is, and how to use evidence to support an argument. Time is scheduled for class...
PwC Financial Literacy
Charitable Giving
Charitable organizations and monetary donations to these organizations are the focus of the financial literacy lesson plan presented here. Learners explore how donations benefit both the organization and the people it serves. Each pupil...
PwC Financial Literacy
Credit Reports
Middle schoolers discover why it's important to establish a positive credit history and understand the value of credit reports to lenders and borrowers. They apply legal guidelines to establish the uses of a credit report other than...
PwC Financial Literacy
Insurance Why's and How's
Middle schoolers explore the primary purposes of a variety of types of insurance. They determine who benefits the most from insurance coverage, and examine the factors that lead to increases and decreases in insurance premiums. The...
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
Introduction to Nanotechnology Using the Creative Problem-Solving Model
Should we continue to spend money on nanotechnology? Groups engage in a problem-solving unique process around the newly emerging research field of nanotechnology. In order to propose a solution, the groups must research nanotechnology...
Illustrative Mathematics
Firefighter Allocation
Creating equations with one variable to solve real-world-type problems is a key skill any algebra learner needs to master. Here the focus is on realizing that one can write the equation in different ways depending upon how one...
Curated OER
Your Tax Dollars at Work
In order to understand how tax dollars are spent, young economists use given data and graph it on a circle graph. Circle graphs are highly visual and can help individuals describe data. A class discussion follows the initial activity.
Curated OER
Getting Into Shapes: Identifying and Describing Two-Dimensional Shapes
Young scholars examine their classroom to find examples of various types of shapes. After identifying and describing the various shapes, they draw as many as they can on a piece of paper. They organize them into an image based on their...
Curated OER
Discovering Math: Computation
Middle schoolers add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers. They find the square and the cube of numbers. They create a game incorporating computation on rational numbers. Everyone works together to write and evaluate...
Curated OER
Recipe Formats - Level II
A recipe, no matter its format, gives ingredients and instructions for a specific food so that the food item tastes the same every time. See Preface Materials:
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: National Budget Simulation
How would you deal with the national budget if you were the President of the United States? What if there was a national emergency? This site includes a budget simulation on the computer that allows students to make real budget...
Other
The Mint: Ideas for Teachers: Budgeting Your Financial Resources
This lesson plan teaches students about different types of income and expenses and allows them to develop a personal budget.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Becoming a Wise Consumer: Creating a Budget
In this instructional activity, students will learn how to become a wise consumer by creating a budget based on needs and wants. Students will create a weekly budget with a variable income using the interactive app MWB: My Weekly Budget...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Creating a Household Budget
In this Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum PowerPoint module, students create a household budget by tracking their expenditures over a month-long period. Students use Microsoft Excel to create a spreadsheet to track their own...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Budgeting & Checking Activity Financial Literacy
This is a simulation for learners to integrate several concepts on saving and banking into one project.
Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Budget Technology [Pdf]
Students will be divided into pairs and given a $1000 budget (imaginary) to create a project focusing on their area of interest within the school curriculum that will include a culminating audio/visual presentation. They must write an...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Budgets
What is a budget? How do we use it and why is it important? Students work on these questions in the context of the College Project.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Bouncing Ball Budgets
Through an interactive game, young scholars share spending decisions they've made in the past and start to think about their spending habits in new ways.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Budgeting for the Oregon Trail
As a part of the online collaborative unit, Westward Ho!, learners will work in cooperative groups of 4-5 students to decide what items they need to take on the Oregon Trail, determine the cost of the items, and complete a ledger to...
Climate Literacy
Clean: The Earth's Heat Budget
Students investigate the effects of distance and angle on the input of solar radiation at the Earth's surface, the role played by albedo, and the heat capacity of land and water.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Adventures in Math: Lesson 2: Plans and Goals
Planning is essential to financial success. In this lesson, students will define the word "budget" and identify the three key components associated with creating a budget, evaluate wants versus needs, and demonstrate an understanding of...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Money Comes and Goes
Students read two online stories that introduce them to the elements of a budget and show that a successful budget balances money coming in (income) with money going out (expenses and savings). Follow-up activities point out the value of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "All in the Family"
A cooperative unit where students work together and use a variety of math skills to establish budgets and compare and compute the best buys. Students will continue practicing their writing skills by writing thank you notes to local...