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Demand Shifters
Students explore concept of demand and factors that cause demand for a good or service to change; students recognize factors that influence their behavior as consumers. Real world examples are provided through an interview with William...
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Theory of Polynomials
In this polynomial worksheet, students find all zeros of polynomials. They write polynomials as the product of linear fractions. This two-page worksheet contains 27 problems. The second page provides answers.
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Perfect Squares and Factoring
In this perfect square worksheet, students factor perfect square trinomials and polynomials. They identify trinomials and polynomials that are perfect squares. This one-page worksheet contains 21 problems.
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What's In Your Grocery Bag?
Students explore the global implications of consumer decisions when purchasing groceries. They examine labels of food products and discuss the wording on the labels. They calculate food miles of how far each ingredient in foods has...
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Economics
High schoolers review economic trends from the past 30 years. They compare and contrast GDP and GNP. They identify other social indicators of economic progress as well.
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Who is Coming to Our House?
Students examine waves of immigration that affected the development of the United States, appreciate variety of countries of origin of immigrants, analyze immigration data, discern patterns in data and communicate finding to classmates,...
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Scale Me Down
Students create scale drawings, and ultimately scale models, of real-world objects in this Math lesson about ratios, proportion, scaling factors, and cross products. The lesson includes ideas for cross-curricular extensions and is...
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A Shopping Center Field Study
Students analyze how developers plan for a shopping center. They take a field trip to a nearby shopping center. Also students participate in a shopping center scavenger hunt. Students identify factors important to the location of...
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Multiplication of Fractions
In this math worksheet, students solve the problems while using the operation of multiplication with fractions to find the products.
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Multiplication Facts
In this multiplication facts worksheet, 4th graders solve multiplication problems, find the missing numbers, and solve a word problem. In this problem solving worksheet, students find seventeen products. Examples of drawing pictures and...
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Multiplying With 6 and 7 (B)
In this multiplication worksheet, students find the products to 100 problems which have a factor of 6 or 7, and another factor between 1 and 12.
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Digging, Smelting and Forging: But Why in Pennsylvania
Students examine the history of the iron industry in Pennsylvania. In this iron industry lesson plan, students learn about Israel Acrilius and his role in the iron industry. Students identify natural resources used in forging iron....
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Apple Now World’s Most Valuable Brand
Students read an article about Apple overtaking Google as the most valuable brand in the world and complete several activities regarding the topic. In this ESL lesson, students explore brand names as they pertain to products people...
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A Measure of Happiness
Students share opinions about the factors that contribute to or detract from their happiness. They create survey to determine how people in their community measure happiness, and write reflections on the relationship between money and...
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Literacy as a Force in the World
Students research and compare economic factors and data mining in Nepal. Students look at data to determine how the Nepalese quality of life compares to other countries and predict whether the literacy rate indicates or influences the...
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Multiply Whole Numbers and Decimals: Reteach
In this whole number and decimal multiplication worksheet, students review the three steps to multiply whole numbers and decimals. Students then find the products for the sixteen problems.
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From Genes to Memes
Pupils explore changes in evolution. In this evolution instructional activity, students define genes and memes. Pupils read an article to recognize the difference between genes and memes. Students explain what a meme is and what factors...
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Market Structures and Competition
Young scholars review concepts related to market structures and competition. Using supply and demand, they identify what factors cause them to shift and analyze business downward facing demand curves. They compare and contrast the...
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Development of a Nutritional Snack
Students develop a new line of nutritional snacks. They work in teams to submit a proposal for a snack that not only tastes good, but is nutritional as well. Their end-product consists of four parts: background information, developing...
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From the Store to the Shopper
Students explore the marketing process that companies use, including their advertising campaigns. As a class, they discuss how supermarkets develop new brands, determine how to package their goods, price them, and select the products....
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Fill- In Multiplication Grid Problems 30% Open
In this multiplication learning exercise, students fill in a multiplication chart with products from the factors 1 to 12. The chart is 70% filled in and students supply the remaining products.
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Endangered Species
Students investigate endangered species. For this animal science lesson, students identify endangered animals and use the Productive Thinking Model to come up with a solution to the problem. Students present various solutions.
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No Publicity, Bad Publicity?
Students examine the factors that can influence a celebrity's media image and marketplace viability. They read an article, answer discussion questions, role-play advisors to a studio head, and write a letter to a studio head.
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Where Should We Land?
Students discuss the difference between major landforms as a class. In groups, they rate the landforms based on the needs of the community that wish to settle there. They also discuss the push and pull factors of the colonists that made...