+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Economic Decisions in Other Systems: Comparative Systems

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students identify and describe the charactertics in each economic system. In groups, they discuss how economic decisions are made in each system and use the Internet to research Chad, United States and North Korea's economic systems. ...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Basic Questions: What, How, and For Whom?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the various types of economic systems. As a class, they identify the three basic economic questions: what?, How?, and For Whom?. Using capitalism as an economic system, they discuss how each question is answered.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using the Production Possibilities Frontier

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the purpose of models and why economists use them. Using a graph, they practice reading and plotting points. They are introduced to a production possibilities frontier and draw their own from data supplied to them on...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Surpluses, Shortages, and Equilibrium

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners review and discuss the meaning of equilibrium. As a class, they participate in a game of "The Price is Right" in which they guess the true market price of various items. They explain how shortages and surpluses tend to force...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Prevent Child Abuse

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars research documents and photographs by Lewis Hine on child labor. They examine documents and summarize them. Students complete several photograph analysis worksheets. Their research and documents begin after the Civil War.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Famous People of the Gold Rush

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research a famous person from the Gold Rush era. Using the Internet, they take notes from creditable websites and write their rough drafts of their paper. They use peer editing to check for spelling and grammar errors. ...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Discovering Places & Regions

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research physical and cultural features of a place. They practice skills in gathering information from various sources, using tools such as graphic organizers, word processing, multimedia, and use of the Internet.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Middle Ages

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students read books about the Middle Ages. They discuss characteristics of the Middle Ages. In groups, students construct a castle and draw a map to scale. Pupils create a Venn diagram comparing rules in different countries in the...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

LET YOUR FINGERS DO THE WALKING

For Teachers 4th - 5th
The student will recognize different information sources. 2. The student will use a telephone book as a resource for locating agricultural businesses and people with agriculture-related jobs.Discuss the purpose of the phone book, and...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Consumer Credit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate he concept of consumer credit by explaining the benefits of using credit. The costs of their use is discussed in the lesson and the criteria that is used in order to establish credit. They work in cooperative...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cultural Ties in Your Nebraska Community

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders use different resources to collect data about how their specific community is affected by international ties and relations. Resources include local library, city hall, travel agent, visitors bureau, and Chamber of...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Achieving Economic Stability

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers engage in study of the economic crash of The Stock Market in 1929. They examine the trends of the market at the time and discuss the indicators in classroom small groups. Then suggestions are made as to how this could have...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

ABC's Of Figuring Interest

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers participate in a lesson of figuring interest. This is done in order to strengthen number calculation skills while computing the interest when buying different things. This done in conjunction with using credit to make...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Does Conflict Shape Nations? The Middle East

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers locate settlements and observe patterns in the size and distribution of cities using maps, graphics, and other information. They explain the processes that have caused cities to grow.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Digital Storytelling: At-Risk Students Find Their Voices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use digital cameras and software to create a digital story which consists of a series of digital images paired with a narrarated soundtrack. They focus on relevant images and a presecribed sequence of steps to provide a vignette...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Got Water?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine that delivering clean, fresh water to citizens around the world involves and affects politics, economics, international relations, and technology. They brainstorm a list of factors that might affect their town's...
+
Lesson Plan
National First Ladies' Library

Red Hunts, Black Lists, and Communists

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students research and examine the unsavory history of the hunt for communists in the United States during the 1950s. They divide up into groups to review the Red Scare of the 1920s as a backdrop to the McCarthy era and write a short...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

What Makes A Community Sustainable

For Students 9th - 12th
In this environment instructional activity, high schoolers read three different case studies in order to apply them to the categories of finding the best possible choices to make for helping a community flourish.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Forestry Background

For Students 9th - 12th
In this environment worksheet, students read the background information of forestry and focus upon harvesting and forest management.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Modifying Words

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar instructional activity, students read a piece of text and practice modifying fourteen words to grammatically complete the paragraphs correctly.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Phrasal Verbs With "Set"

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL phrasal verb worksheet, learners read 10 sentences that have a missing verb. Students fill in each space with the verb "set" and one of the prepositions from the box.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Social Structure

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this human interaction worksheet, students respond to 7 short answer questions and 14 fill in the blank questions regarding social structures.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Teaching in a Time of Crisis

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students react to the current financial crisis. In this community building lesson, students are given the opportunity to voice their thoughts and feelings on the current financial crisis in the safety of a classroom meeting.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Get to Know: Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils complete a research activity in a schoolyard or park to learn about plants. In this plant lesson, students learn the name of the one of more plants. Pupils describe or draw the plant, pointing our features that distinguish the...