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The Little Red Hen The Little Red Hen is a classic story for nearly all adults, and many children. Here it is retold and enhanced in order to provide a framework for ... Grade: K-2 3-5    Published: 01/20/2003

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Financial Fitness for Life: Steps to Financial Fitness - Grades 3-5 - Teacher Guide Grade: 3-5   Published: 2001 3 of the 16 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below. Theme 2: Lesson 5 - Why? How? Where? This lesson provides some practical activities to extend students' understanding about how to make saving choices. Children set a goal, determine a strategy for saving, and decide how they will save ... Theme 3: Lesson 13 - Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime? In this lesson, students role-play how they would respond to various lending situations and analyze how to make better decisions about lending. By assuming the role of lender, students will analyze t... Theme 2: Lesson 4 - The Grasshopper and the Ant In this lesson, children use an adaptation of Aesop's fable, "The Grasshopper and the Ant," to learn about the trade-off between satisfying wants today and planning for the future. Children use the f...

Capstone: Exemplary Lessons for High School Economics - Teacher's Guide Grade: 9-12   Published: 2003 5 of the 45 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below. Unit 1: Lesson 1 - Economic Reasoning: Why Are We A Nation of Couch Potatoes? Students examine visuals to identify an economic mystery regarding exercise and diet. They use the Guide to Economic Reasoning to analyze the costs and benefits of decisions about diet and exercise. ... Unit 2: Lesson 6 - Why Did Communism Collapse? Students examine and discuss visuals to solve an economic mystery regarding the command system of the Soviet Union. Unit 3: Lesson 15 - Why Do Some People Earn More Than Others? Students examine and discuss visuals to identify an economic mystery regarding differences in income. They use the Guide to Economic Reasoning to analyze the problem and reach a tentative solution. Unit 4: Lesson 20 - Why Helping Yourself Helps Others Students examine and discuss visuals to identify an economic mystery regarding greed and self-interest. They use economic reasoning to analyze the mystery and reach a tentative explanation. Unit 5: Lesson 24 - Government and the Environment Students examine and discuss visuals to identify an economic mystery regarding the failure of the Endangered Species Act. They are introduced to the concepts of market failure and government failure....

Economics in Action: 14 Greatest Hits for Teaching High School Economics Grade: 9-12   Published: 2003 1 of the 14 lessons are related to this lesson. It is listed below. Lesson 3 - Using Economic Reasoning To Solve Mysteries Students ponder an economic mystery: Why do professional athletes, many of whom never finish college, earn far higher salaries than people who perform worthy services such as teachers and firefighter...

Financial Fitness for Life: Pocket Power - Grades K-2 - Teacher Guide Grade: K-2   Published: 2001 1 of the 16 lessons are related to this lesson. It is listed below. Theme 3: Lesson 9 - We Decide to Spend Students create want webs for a hamster and then for themselves. They experience spending money in exchange for goods and services when they use dimes to become consumers at a school carnival.