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Trees at Work... Just Look!
Learners investigate the significance of trees. They collect magazine pictures of animals that live in trees, list products that are made from trees, collect twigs and create an item using the sticks, and bring in and discuss food from...
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Apple Logic and Problem Solving
Students examine apple production in the United States. In this interdisciplinary instructional activity, students use problem solving strategies introduced to solve math problems associated with apple production in the United States....
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Making Your Local Ethical Shopping Guide
Pupils write a research action plan on how to buy products that are environmentally friendly even in tough world conditions. In this ethical business lesson plan, students learn that the economy, food prices, natural disasters, and more...
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Efficiency Can Solve a Host of Problems
Students explore the concept of efficiency. In this efficiency lesson, students read an article about efficiency in various industries such as health care, retail, and auto repair. Students identify a company that they think could...
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Beaded Bracelet Multiplication
Fourth graders practice multiplying and dividing two and three digit numbers. In this Mathematical strategies lesson, 4th graders estimate products and quotients in appropriate situation and make connections about the relationships...
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The Monetary Equation of Exchange
In this economics activity, several basic principles of macroeconomics are explained, then students solve problems with varying rates of velocity and money supply.
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Care Homework #7
In this care homework worksheet, students add, subtract, multiply and divide integers. They multiply and divide fractions. Students complete percent problems and determine the area of polygons. This three-page...
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The Fossil Fuel Energy in our Food and Drink
Students explore the use of fossil fuel energy. In this ecology lesson, students review the multiple steps used to make an aluminum can. Small groups choose a breakfast cereal and create a flow chart showing all the processes used to...
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Hydroponics
Students experiment with growing food using hyrdroponics. In this science lesson, students grow lettuce in a confined space with weight limitations. Students start a plastic pop bottle garden observing the growth and charting it....
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Trade Allows Us To Buy Products at Reasonable Prices
Pupils discover that trade allows us to buy products at reasonable prices. They research information based on the group they belong to. They participate in a debate based on the different positions.
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Productivity and Quality on the Job
Students explore productivity and quality in the classroom. They demonstrate the importance of quality and productivity using sheets of paper. In addition, they discuss what can happen when quality is traded for speed.
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Chemical Reactions
Learners work in groups to define chemistry vocabulary including the terms reactants, products, exothermic and endothermic. They then combine the group definitions to arrive at a consensus definition for the class. Students also listen...
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Research, Production, and Presentation of Abstract and Pop Art
Students are introduced to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art using both print materials, Take 5 Art prints and the Illusion4 Palm OS program. They complete a research and art production project that focuses on one artist from the two...
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Photosynthesis
In this biology worksheet, students answer 12 short-answer and fill in the blank questions about sunlight, cell production, and plant growth. This basic worksheet would make a good homework assignment.
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Monster Mash
Students brainstorm ideas for an original product with the same name, "Monster Mash" and find a unique way to market their invention. They create a prototype of the package in which their product could be sold and focus on marketing...
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Plant Word Search
In this plant production worksheet, students search for words in a word search about plant production. Students search for 10 words.
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It's Not Easy Being Green
Students complete a unit that focuses on their school's waste production. They conduct a litter survey, collect the waste produced in their classroom for a week and generate a waste-audit, and identify how their school can minimize...
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A Brief History of Rubber
Students explore the history of rubber. In this rubber lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture regarding the history of the product and its uses in society. Students create timelines that detail the...
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National Dairy Month
Students make ice cream, make lists of dairy products, discuss cows, and more to celebrate National Dairy Month. In this dairy lesson plan, students also sing songs about dairy.
Create With Cozmo - Digital Workbook
Take your students on a creative coding journey with their very own robot buddy, Cozmo. (Cozmo robot not included.) Use code to teach new concepts to make and customize your own games and projects:Start off on Coder Level 1 and tackle...
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Henry Ford and Assembly Line Production
Students study Henry Ford and the imprtance of the history of automotives. They participate in learning stations to assemble diagrams simulating an assembly line. They produce pictures at each station and pass the picture on to the next...
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Estimate Products Practice 21.3
In this multiplication worksheet, students estimate the products in 19 problems in which two or three digits is multiplied by single digits. There are no examples or instructions on the page.
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Area Model Algebra
Expand the pupils knowledge of using area models to algebra. The interactive allows learners to use the same procedure of getting partial products when multiplying multi-digit numbers to multiplying polynomials. Scholars see how the...
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Pollution or Prevention?
Students examine potential contamination on the environment due to products and by-products of a new industrial process. Students conduct a lab that explores the economic differences between choices of pollution cleanup and prevention.
