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DANCE

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students create and perform a dance or series of movements one to two minutes in length. Their dance supports and enhances the expressive qualities of the theater production and accompany the music students selected to perform.
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Advertisement Evaluation Document

For Students 6th - 8th
In this advertisement evaluation worksheet, middle schoolers complete a checklist that tells about what type of advertisement they are looking at. They determine what type of product is being advertised and tell if they would purchase it.
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Nature's Store

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars research medicinal uses of plants, correlating loss of habitat to loss of valuable medicine. Drawing on their research, they create a "sales pitch" that tries to convince the owner of an imaginary drug store to stock plant...
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Elements of an Economic System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers review the elements of an economic system. Using a circular flow model, they explain the flow of money, products and factors of production. They identify transactions that would occur in the product and factor markets.
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Machine Technology

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students work in pairs to manufacture a product for a potential customer. They interview potential customers and collect data. Students develop a customer interview profile. They manufacture drill drift part to customer's specifications...
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Industrial Processes of Polymers: How toys Are Made

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore how technology and science have created the plastics that make toys.  In this industrial processes lesson students work on their own injected molded product and a blow molded product.
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How Economic Systems Developed

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explain the basic functions of the various economic systems. As a class, they identify the main characteristics of capitalism and the advantages of division of labor and specialization. They describe the relationship between...
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Bull's Eye Multiplication Maze Worksheet

For Students 5th
In this multiplication maze activity, 5th graders find the product of a multiplication problem at the beginning of each maze. They travel through the maze by finding the problems with the same product. They draw the route and write the...
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Alcoholic Advertisements

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Alcohol is a powerful depressant drug. Over time heavy drinking can lead to severe health problems. This lesson plan shows how advertisements for alcoholic beverages entice people to buy their product by using wealthy people, or happy...
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How We Use Rocks: Part 1

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students are introduced to rocks and their physical properties. We use rock and mineral products everyday. In fact, each person in the United States uses an average of 10 tons of rock and mineral products every year.
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Saving Humpty Dumpty;Recycling, Environmental Science, Math, Ecology, Athletic Shoes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students describe how shoe design, manufacturing, retailing, consumer use, and disposal impact environments and societies. They discuss ways to reduce, reuse, or recycle resources in the life-cycle for a shoe product.
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Ponle Color a Venezuela

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils demonstrate the ability to express the Spanish future tense using . They read an advertisement for a studenT contest to promote a certain product, then write and present a contest of their own.
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Food or Fuel?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars describe the process of transesterification utilizing chemical formulas. They construct and compare models of chemical structure of the substances involved in biodiesel production such as: alcohols, alkenes, alkanes,...
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Elasticity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the topic of elasticity. As a class, they identify demand as being either price elastic or price inelastic when given examples. They discover the relationship between percentage changes in the quantity sold...
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Activity #13 Changing The Look of Sugar

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students observe what happens when sugar is dissolved in water and when it is heated. They weigh the products after each of the two experiments on a balance scale. Pupils distinguish between physical and chemical changes. Students are...
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Life of a Dollar Bill

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine the basic need for money and the circular flow of resources between households, businesses, government, and financial institutions. They discover how money gets into circulation and how it facilitates the production of...
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The Distributive Property

For Students 8th - 9th
In this distributive property worksheet, students solve and complete 12 different problems that include using the distributive property to solve. First, they name the coefficient of each terms and list the like terms. Then, students use...
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Developing Soundproofing Materials

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate the acoustic properties of materials in order to develop soundproofing products.  In this soundproofing lesson students research different resources, design and perform experiments and fabricate, test and...
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The Role of African Slaves on South Carolina Rice Plantations

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the role of African American slaves in rice plantations. In this slave life lesson, 4th graders discuss the products produced in the 13 colonies. Students discuss the importance of rice to South Carolina's...
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Innovation in a Bag

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students create a business plan to start up their own business. In this algebra lesson, students think of a product they can produce and sell. They create on paper what they should do and then put into practice creating a mock business.
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Composition of Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners solve composition of functions. For this algebra lesson, students find the sum, difference and product of functions. They find the inverse of a function.
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Graphing Ozone Chemistry: Introduction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss Ozone Chemistry. They do research on the subject. They graph their data. They analyze the economic impact of removing CFC's from the biosphere, and graph the worldwide production of CFC's since their discovery.
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Grammar Lesson Plan Focus on Paired Conjunctions

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students engage in a lesson plan which is a straight forward, teacher centered, grammar lesson plan focusing on written and oral production of the target structure. After a lecture/demo, students work individually on an exercise imbedded...
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Two By One Multiplication

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use base-ten blocks to find products of two-digits by one-digit by making a model of the problem. They complete a worksheet by multiplying 2-digits by 1-digit with regrouping. They may use the base-ten blocks if needed.