Marketplace: Doing Business in Afghanistan
In May 2002, delegates from governments, international companies, and financial institutions met at a United Nations conference in Tehran to discuss t...
Grade: 6-8 9-12    Published: 02/26/2009


Dumptown, USA: Making a Ton of Difference
The amount of trash produced in the United States is mounting with each passing year. Communities are finding it increasingly difficult and costly to ...
Grade: 6-8    Published: 12/01/2008


Marketplace: To Show or Not To Show
This lesson complements an NPR Marketplace segment exploring the effects of the rising costs of insurance for high-profile art exhibits since Septe...
Grade: 6-8 9-12    Published: 03/11/2004


Q T Pi Fashions - Learning About Credit Card Use
Credit cards are convenient, user friendly, and at times dangerous. In this lesson students learn the joys and dangers of using credit as they help...
Grade: 6-8 9-12    Published: 11/13/2002


There is Something in the Water
The United States is losing 60,000 acres of wetlands each year. Is this good or bad? Does anyone really want to live in swamps, fens, bogs, and mars...
Grade: 6-8    Published: 01/04/2006


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Choices & Changes: In Life, School, and Work - Grades 7-8 - Teacher's Resource ManualChoices & Changes: In Life, School, and Work - Grades 7-8 - Teacher's Resource Manual
Grade: 7-8   Published: 2002
5 of the 15 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below.


Unit 3: Lesson 15 - I Can Make Good Choices
Students prepare and present their final projects, advertisements to influence students to graduate from high school.
Unit 1: Lesson 4 - I am Part of the Economy
Through case study and discussion, students explore the human capital needed in a job. In an extension activity involving use of the Internet, students are introduced to youth employment.
Unit 2: Lesson 8 - Ways to Make Choices
Students are introduced to six methods for making choices and decide in small groups the most appropriate way(s) to make certain choices.
Unit 3: Lesson 14 - Choices Made by Others Affect Me
Reading and analyzing a dilemma, students learn to recognize how other people's choices can affect them. Students respond to a series of events, indicating how they may or may not have been affected.
Unit 3: Lesson 11 - Choices Have Consequences
In a paired writing activity, students identify potential actions and outcomes from brief life situations, and they learn that choices have consequences.

Mathematics & Economics: Connections for Life - 6-8Mathematics & Economics: Connections for Life - 6-8
Grade: 6-8   Published: 2002
2 of the 12 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below.


Lesson 7 - Which Pet is Right for You?
This lesson focuses on a topic that is at the heart of economics, that of decision making. Decision making from an economic perspective requires individuals to consider both the benefits and costs for...
Lesson 6 - How Much is That Bike?
This lesson demonstrates the utility of percentages in comparing fractions of unequal size; it also provides students with practice in using percent to calculate simple interest. Students are introduc...

Choices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 5-6 - Teacher's Resource ManualChoices & Changes: In Life, School, & Work - Grades 5-6 - Teacher's Resource Manual
Grade: 5-6   Published: 2001
2 of the 15 lessons are related to this lesson. They are listed below.


Unit 3: Lesson 9 - What Results When People Use Improved Physical Capital Resources?
Students learn that using technologies increase production during a business simulation.
Unit 2: Lesson 4 - How Can I Make Decisions About My Future?
In the mid-1700s thousands of Europeans traveled to North America seeking adventure, freedom, and economic opportunity. The risk of deciding to travel across the Atlantic Ocean in a wooden ship was g...

 

 
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