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Daily chart - The Economist
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): charts and graphs (199), data (157), statistics (125)
In the Classroom
Use the chart as a basis for writing prompts, fishbowl discussions, blog posts, and more. Create a wiki page about the background information of the chart. Consider using the topics here to conduct your own research and publish your own charts through a wiki or blog. Want to learn more about wikis? Check out the TeachersFirst's Wiki Walk-ThroughYou must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Treasury Direct Kids - U.S. Department of the Treasury
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4 to 8tag(s): advertising (33), financial literacy (91), posters (41)
In the Classroom
After presenting the basic info on this site, view the posters under the tab Art of Debt. Discuss and then have students make online posters parallel to the old ones they see displayed here. Use an online poster creator, such as Padlet, reviewed here. Have them make their own graphs of funds and debts based on their own finances using ChartGizmo, reviewed here. Use this site when teaching percentages; have students do problems figuring the interest on today's debt. Introduce them to the concept of buying a bond today and have them calculate its accrued interest and how many years it will take to gain face value. Have students in a team create modern day videos using a tool like moovly, reviewed here, to advertise and sell savings bonds. Share the videos using a tool such as SchoolTube, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TV411 - Math - Adult Literacy Media Alliance
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4 to 12tag(s): charts and graphs (199), financial literacy (91)
In the Classroom
Share this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector as practice or review of current math topics. Provide a link to games on classroom computers for student practice. Spanish teachers may want students to complete a lesson in Spanish to provide real-world language practice. Share this site with parents through your classroom website or blog to provide review materials at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Economics Guides - Shmoop University Inc
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9 to 12Students can create accounts on Shmoop to access more features, but the site is very useful even without an account. Creating an account does require an email address. Tip: rather than using your personal or work email, create a free Gmail account to use for memberships. If you plan to have students register individually, you may want to create your own Gmail account with up to 20 subaccounts for each group of students (by code name or number) within your classes. Here is a blog post that tells how to set up GMail subaccounts to use for any online membership service.
tag(s): financial literacy (91), money (184)
In the Classroom
Add this site to your classroom favorites and list it on your class website so students can access it from home or in class at times when they may think they have mastered content ahead of their classmates. Use the interactives as a classroom activity on an interactive whiteboard or projector to test student knowledge or to prep for an exam. Use the summaries yourself to help organize your presentation of the content.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - Emory University
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): africa (163), black history (59), slavery (66)
In the Classroom
If you are teaching a course that covers the African slave trade, this site will be invaluable. Take some time to browse the interactive maps and timelines, look through the lesson plans, and find images that can be used to supplement reading and discussion. Discover the glossary of terms that could be used for vocabulary work, the tables of information useful for teaching data analysis, and the African name database for genealogy research. Challenge cooperative learning groups to research a specific section of this site and create multimedia presentations. Try Thinglink, reviewed here, to modify or redefine student learning. This site allows users to narrate a picture. Enhance student learning by asking students to upload a copyright-safe photo, and then narrate as if it were a news report using Headline Generator, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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StatPlanet
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6 to 12tag(s): data (157), environment (321), maps (292), population (63), statistics (125)
In the Classroom
There are countless ways to incorporate this website into many subject areas. Math teachers will love having a way for students to apply data skills in a real world context. During Women's History month, compare statistics of countries and how women are compensated for their pay. In health class, share the HIV occurrences throughout the world. Assign cooperative learning groups one specific area to investigate and present their findings to the class via a multimedia presentation. Have students use a mapping tool such as Click2Map, reviewed here, to create a map of specific locations within their research. They can even include display markers featuring text, photos, and videos!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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2010 Census - US Census Bureau
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6 to 12tag(s): census (19), demographics (19), population (63)
In the Classroom
First, it's important for students to know that the US Constitution requires a census, and second, that the information gathered is used in a variety of important ways that affect them directly. The first data posted looks at how shifts in population density will change the way various geographic areas of the country are represented in the US government. Consider reading the Director's blog for further analysis of how census data is being used on a local, state, and national level. Of course, the data are perfect for using in math and civics classes for teaching graph reading and creation, and for providing real-life information to use in statistical analysis. A civics or sociology class might download a copy of the census form and consider what the questions tell us about how families live in the 21st century. What questions might students add to a future census form that would reflect how things are changing for their generation?Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Statistics: By the Numbers - Dr. Chudler
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): data (157), statistics (125)
In the Classroom
This site would be perfect to use on your interactive whiteboard or projector as an introduction to statistics. After viewing and discussing this in class, have students bring in examples found in the newspaper, Internet, or on TV to analyze. High school social studies or government classes can look at this statistical information as they follow and debunk political claims during election cycles. Have cooperative learning groups create short presentations on video demonstration what they found. Share this videos using a site such as SchoolTube (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Lemonade Stands - Derek Ramey
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4 to 8tag(s): money (184)
In the Classroom
Create a link at classroom computers or the computer lab to use as a center during an economics unit. Chart students' results and have a contest to see who can obtain the highest profits at the end of 30 days.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Where Children Sleep - Daily Telegraph
Grades
2 to 12tag(s): cross cultural understanding (127), homes (11), space (230)
In the Classroom
Use this site when discussing economics in the U.S. or the world. Use this site as an anticipatory set or "activator" to introduce a unit or lesson on a projector or interactive whiteboard. Use it to launch a discussion or unit on some of the countries displayed here. Have students create original photo essays online following this model, Slidestory, reviewed here. This tool allows you to narrate the slides and images. Challenge students to find or take photos and narrate the photos as if it were a news report. To find Creative Commons images for student projects (with credit, of course), try Compfight, reviewed here. This website might also be useful for units on world cultures or in world language classes. In upper grades, combine these visual images with visualizations of world statistics from Many Eyes, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Geography of Slavery in Virginia - University of Virginia
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4 to 12tag(s): primary sources (91), slavery (66), virginia (16)
In the Classroom
Students will certainly gain a more concrete and visceral understanding of attitudes toward slaves when reading these advertisements. The concepts are not necessarily Virginia-specific! Use some of the "personal profiles" to help students get to know one of the runaway slaves or servants more intimately. Have students review the diary entries of slaveowners to cut through our modern interpretations of what plantation owners thought or believed. Use these primary sources to guide a frank discussion on the role of slavery in Virginia and the South prior to the Civil War. The site is also an important resource for students doing research on antebellum Virginia.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Fall 2010 Symposium: The Space Program and Beyond - Lou Frey Institute
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): space (230)
In the Classroom
Share portions of this program in your government/civics classes as an example of the congressional funding/policy process and its impact on economics, scientific development, and more. Assign student groups to trace a single aspect of the space program and its impact on state/local economics, employment, science, and more. Have students create an interactive infographic on the impact of a government program using a tool such as Canva, reviewed here, or stage a debate on the pros and cons of eliminating the space program altogether using Virtual Debate, reviewed here, which has online examples and resources for conducting virtual debates.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Ayiti: The Cost of Life - Global Kids and Gamelab
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5 to 12tag(s): cross cultural understanding (127)
In the Classroom
Take your students on a virtual trip to Haiti by sharing this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. The site would work well for individual or pairs of students in a lab or on laptops. Have them record information in current event journals. At the end of the game have students prepare a short presentation using PowerPoint or an online tool like 280 Slides reviewed here to share with the class on how their family did.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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IndebtEd: We're Broke Let's Fix It - MTV Networks On Campus Inc.
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): money (184)
In the Classroom
Though this site is geared toward college students, it would be a great addition to any economics, math, or social studies class. Use the national debt clock to see how quickly we are accumulating debt and how much every individual is responsible for. Use an interactive whiteboard or projector and share the informational videos for the class to see. Have students journal a response to the videos. In groups have students read the government and people section and using a web 2.0 tool like Voki reviewed here have students choose a presidential figure to tell how they will solve the nation's debt problem. Place the link to the site on your class webpage so students can take the debt quiz or play the debt ski activity.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Learn About Congress - Indiana University
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6 to 12tag(s): branches of government (53), congress (37)
In the Classroom
Use these mini lessons on an interactive whiteboard or projector as an introduction to the roles and responsibility of Congress in a history, civics, government or current events class. This could also be part of in-depth looks at all three branches of government. As an alternative, students can work independently or in small groups on these modules, and then report back to the class as a whole on what they've learned. Have groups create podcasts about Congress using a site such as PodOmatic (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Futurestates - Independent Television Service
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9 to 12tag(s): computers (102), debate (45), environment (321), ethics (20), immigration (61), migration (58)
In the Classroom
These films would work well for a more unstructured gifted/talented seminar style class, a current issues class, or a Real Life 101-type class. Some may also be appropriate within an economics, biology, or environmental science curriculum. A civics class might debate the proper governmental role in resolving some of the dilemmas presented. Challenge students to create podcasts using a site such as PodOmatic (reviewed here), describing other possible future "what ifs."Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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China's Economy - PBS NewsHour
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9 to 12tag(s): china (65)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free lesson plans on this site! Even if you don't have time for the entire lesson plan, be sure to check it out to see what can be included in your classroom. Be sure to save the site as a favorite to allow for easy reference later on.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Secret Millionaire's Club - AOL Kids
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5 to 8tag(s): letter writing (18), money (184), writing (364)
In the Classroom
Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Then have students explore this site independently or in small groups. Following the format of Radley's blog, present to the class one of the challenges from Radley's blog, then have students work in small groups to analyze the challenge and come up with a solution. When groups are finished do a comparison between the SMC's solution and the students solution. To practice letter writing have students use the "Ask Warren" section and email him a financial question they may have. Use the existing Q&A's that are there for examples. Have students use the interactives during free time or as a reward if they finish their work early.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Oil Spill Resources - TeachersFirst
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3 to 12tag(s): disasters (43), environment (321), oil (40), oil spill (19)
In the Classroom
Use these resources together with your class to help students find ways they can contribute to a greater good after such a devastating event spreads across the news. Extend the opportunity to teach about persuasive writing (letters to legislators or the editor), careers in environmental science, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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You Decide: Challenge Your Assumptions - WQED
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): politics (102)
In the Classroom
Divide students into cooperative learning groups to explore the site. Have them choose a topic to explore and debate and then take turns using the resources provided to help build their arguments. A terrific component of this site is the ability to embed a widget into your classroom website that takes students directly to the site and one of its decision-making activities. You can also subscribe to an RSS feed that makes the widget update regularly. There is an archive of previous debates to explore. This site includes a forum/discussion board. Determine whether students may do this under your school's policies and whether forum submissions may display student names or initials. Then spell out both permissible use and consequences before you send students to this site. Some teachers obtain parent permission for students to participate in such a site. You may want to participate in the forum/discussion board as a class, using your own login.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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