All resources in Part Two Middle School Special Courses

Tech - IT- Binary Beads

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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.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Ryan Anderson, Carl Lyman, Michael Wood, Jeff Hinton

Computer Technology-Create a Table

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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,

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Theresa Mbaku

Design Learning

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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

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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.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Tissue Engineering

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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.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Economics in the Headlines

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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.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Lisa Herman-Ellison

I'll Trade You a Bag of Chips, Two Cookies, and $60,000 for Your Tuna Fish Sandwich

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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.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Conor Irons

How E-Commerce Influences Consumer Choice

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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.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Technology Staff Council for Economic Education

Lemonade for Sale!

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Students will become online entrepreneurs, taking risks and changing their production method to increase their profit while running a lemonade stand. This lesson might best be taught after students have learned about the basic concepts of productive resources, profit, and loss. Students then would apply this prior knowledge to their new situation as entrepreneurs.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Technology Staff Council for Economic Education