BUS: Ethics Game (BUS)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will reflect on workplace ethics and learn about how ethics are not always a black and white proposition.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
All resources in Part Two Middle School Special Courses
Tech - IT- Binary Beads
(View Complete Item Description)This resource serves to introduce students to the careers of software development and computer repair. All computers operate on a binary number system. That is a number system that is represented by 0 and 1. Students will learn that this differs from the number system we use everyday, the decimal system (0-9). In this activity, students will use colored beads representing 1's and 0's to create a key ring holder with their initials written in binary. There are printouts for students providing details of the binary number system and illustrations of the key ring they are to produce.
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Keyboarding - Accuracy Games for Holidays - Resource
(View Complete Item Description)This resource includes 10 typing activities to fit holidays or special events.
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Keyboarding - Reports
(View Complete Item Description)There are 5 report assignments included in this lesson. Students will follow instructions to set up a report format, and then key for accuracy from a hard copy.
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Cell Day
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson plan from the Utah Education Network, students will collect samples and bring them to school to look at underneath the microscope. They will keep a journal of their observations and drawings and summarize their findings. A student worksheet is included.
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson plan from the Utah Education Network, students will read a summarization of Van Leeuwenhoek's life and work and answer questions to check for understanding. The summarization and questions are included.
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CTE Pathways in Clothing and Textiles
(View Complete Item Description)This resource is an introduction to pathways, skills and careers related to clothing and textiles. There is also an evaluation for the end of the unit.
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Adult Roles - Self Management
(View Complete Item Description)The students will learn the steps of the goal-making process and use this process to create short and long term goals.
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Values
(View Complete Item Description)Values help give us direction and help us set goals for the future. We develop our values from those around us and from our experiences.
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Adult Roles and Responsibilities
(View Complete Item Description)The students will set a long term goal and several short term goals related to the long term goals.
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ALL: Power Point Intro to Career Paths
(View Complete Item Description)This resource provides a PowerPoint presentation and work sheets to introduce students to workplace terminology and career paths. Students will learn that technology and health service will lead the way and be amongst the fastest growing occupations.
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Computer Technology-Create a Table
(View Complete Item Description)This is a lesson that will teach students to set up a simple table in Microsoft Word. Teacher will introduce the lesson by showing students a bingo card. Teacher will introduce the terms Columns and Rows. Then compare the bingo card to a table that will be created in Microsoft Word. The Lesson Plan and Assessment Rubric are provided in a PDF,
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Accounting: Changes that Affect Owner's Equity
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn how transactions affect owner’s equity in a proprietorship. Students will be introduced to how revenue from sales affects owner’s equity. Students will also learn how different expenses and withdrawals affect owner’s equity.
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Lesson 2 Making Money
(View Complete Item Description)The students will assess their personal interests, abilities, and goals, create a resume and examine pay stubs.
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Design Learning
(View Complete Item Description)In this project students identify real-world problems, prototype user-centered design solutions, and implement those solutions according to expert and user feedback. This process, developed by Allen Distinguished Educator Regan Drew, is segmented into the Mindset, Challenge, and Implementation phases.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Interactive, Lesson Plan
Magic of Trade
(View Complete Item Description)In this interactive, experience-based entrepreneurship exercise students learn basic economic principles related to trade. The purpose of this activity, developed by Allen Distinguished Educator Jodie Woodruff, is to highlight the assumed self-interest in trade, and potential benefits of mutual gain.
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Tissue Engineering
(View Complete Item Description)In this problem-based biomedical engineering project, students answer the question: “How can you design low-cost synthetic tissues for low-resource medical schools and research labs?” This project, developed by Allen Distinguished Educator Alyson Nelson, integrates biomedical engineering and global health concepts and meets learning standards in engineering and life sciences.
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Economics in the Headlines
(View Complete Item Description)Students learn how to identify headlines in the news and current events as illustrations of problems in supply and demand. Students will be linked to news sites to create their own analysis of supply and demand issues in problems facing our society. Students will identify factors that change supply and demand for products. Explain how changes in supply and demand affect prices and quantities produced. Analyze actual news stories to determine how changes in supply and demand affect prices and output.
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I'll Trade You a Bag of Chips, Two Cookies, and $60,000 for Your Tuna Fish Sandwich
(View Complete Item Description)Okay, so your tuna fish sandwich probably isn't worth a couple grand. It's most likely made with a type of tuna called albacore. But, on the docks in Tokyo different kind of tuna, related to the stuff in your sandwich, is sold for $70,000 dollars a fish. The Japanese praise the bluefin tuna, or maguro, as a delicacy. In this lesson students will explain that supply and demand are the factors that determine the market price of a good. Describe why some goods are more expensive than others. Graph supply and demand curves from data.
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How E-Commerce Influences Consumer Choice
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson students learn decision making skills that will help them become better consumers. They learn about the importance of price information in making their decisions. Students will gather information on different brands of athletic shoes and determine the best buy. Then, students identify a toy or game they would like to buy. To help determine where to purchase their toy or game, students gather information from online resources. Finally, students conduct interviews to determine how adult they know use e-commerce. They draw generalizations from their data and create a report of their findings.
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