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This dual-purpose lesson is on ratios and marketing
Identifying different travel and tourism types is the subject of this lesson
This hands-on idea for illustrating assembly line and mass production concepts involves sandwiches
Use this to lead your discussion on the impact of electricity and the assembly line on business in the 1920's
This empowering lesson plan utilizes an economically-centered African American Board Game
In this webquest, students explore how future global issues might affect their personal wealth
This is an economics lesson on supply curve shift factors and effects
If your students are into clothes, they will love this world economics lesson on international trade
In this marketing lesson, students develop a company, product, marketing plan and advertisements
Students present career exploration information here using Movie Maker software
This is the study guide for the Karma Tycoon On-Line Video Strategy Game sponsored by Do Something , JPMorgan Chase and 9MMEDIA .
In this free and popular social entrepreneurship game, kids help their communities and learn financial responsibility running their own U.S. nonprofit organizations.
Unit Introduction
About Us
Karma Tycoon Program Description
Learning Goals and Links to Classroom Learning
How to Play Karma Tycoon
Vocabulary
Cities and Nonprofit Data
Pre-Game Lesson Plan 1 - What Is a Nonprofit Organization?
Pre-Game Lesson Plan 2 - City and Nonprofit Internet Learning Hunt
Pre-Game Lesson Plan 3 - The Importance of Managing Your Finances
Post-Game Lesson Plan 1 - Devising a Budget for Your Nonprofit
In this marketing lesson, students learn about the different stages and time spans of the fashion cycle
In this finance lesson, groups research income and expenses, then prepare a PowerPoint budget that works
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This lesson is for creating a PowerPoint Presentation on the Revolutionary War
Although not a lesson plan, this brief idea provides some good information for teaching about Pearl Harbor
This idea is called "Veterans In My Family" and is great for Veteran's Day or Memorial Day
Information, Discussion Topics, and Activities that help answer the question "What Is Terrorism?"
Students Record and Mix their own World War II Radio Broadcast in this Social Studies / Technology lesson
This inspirational lesson about student activism in WWII can serve as a catalyst for student activism today
This is a lesson on the origins of World War II, complete with worksheets
Here's a Civil War virtual vield trip that also involves a Hyperstudio presentation
This lesson covers the beginning of the American Civil War
To demonstrate their Civil War knowledge, students write a diary entry or letter from the period, in this lesson
This revives a WWII idea of sending "Pocket Poems" to our troops
This is a WebQuest on the American Revolution
This Civil War lesson includes great details on setting up group PowerPoint presentations
This is a lesson on the significant leaders of the U.S. Civil War
Here students debate, rank, and present causes of the Civil War in timeline order
Students read about the rights of pre-1760 colonists here and design "Go Britain" bumper stickers
Students create a propaganda piece here and write about an American Revolutionary War colonist who is influenced by it
In this thought-provoking lesson, students write letters to soldiers and apply critical thinking to the subject of war
After reading about the causes of WWI, students make pro- and anti-war posters here and defend their positions
This technology-based unit on the institution of slavery incorporates PowerPoint, a WebQuest, and Inspiration software
Students create a Civil War digital diorama here, showing how physical and human geographic factors can affect a war's outcome
Visual learners gain understanding of the contributions of FDR and Churchill to World War II's conclusion here with the help of modern day technology
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In this idea for Coping with Terrorism, students make a Flag from Sept. 11th Newspaper Clippings
Photography is the subject of this lesson involving Dorthea Lange's Migrant Mother
This lesson on Violence involves creating Memorials for September 11th through Poems & Painting
A good Art-focused lesson on Painting, the Elements of Light, and Studying Countries
A unique lesson plan on African Jewelry Making
Students make Puppets of their favorite Artists and look at art's importance in society in this lesson
This outstanding 3-week multi-discipline fresco art unit features lessons on painters, symmetry, pigment, color wheel, primary colors, Italian Renaissance, solutions, chromatography, molecules, and atoms; plus a good museum education bibliography.
In this art history project, students present an artist to the class with a short speech, poster/PowerPoint, and original art in the artist's style
If your school hasn't made a flag on the fence with paper cups yet, you really should try this idea!
This Modern American Abstract Art history lesson is also a good civil rights/Black History Month lesson
This non-objective art history lesson shows how current events influences art
This is an integrated aboriginal dot painting lesson plan
Still life contour drawings are changed into an abstract collage here utilizing cubist techniques
Here students generate object art in the manner of Wayne Thiebaud and other 1960s pop artists
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