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Adult education social studies lessons under $5
CREDIT, CREDIT SCORES AND RATINGS , Economics, Life Skills, Personal Finance
CreditThe Importance of Your Credit ScoreAn easy to implement and an effective lesson. This complete learning package will teach students how lenders determine credit risk, how a person’s credit score/rating is determined, explain the role of credit bureaus, the importance and benefits of good credit, and how to read a credit report. Essential and practical topics for our students.Included:1. Detailed Lesson Plan2. PowerPoint Presentation3. Credit; The Importance of Your Credit Score: Reading w
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Psychology - Fun Activity - Are you Right-brained or Left-Brained?
Make learning about the brain more fun and more personal! This is a great student-centered activity for any class learning about the human brain. It consists of an easy and effective questionnaire that determines your brain-side preference plus a worksheet designed to encourage reflection and reinforce understanding.
I've been using this activity with my own classes for many years and it always gets enthusiastic engagement from the students.
Works best as part of a unit on the brain, in
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Career Exploration, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, ENTREPRENEURS, Careers, Employment
Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurs The worksheets for this lesson are in Google and PDF format, making it a great resource for distance learning or in-class instruction.Entrepreneurship is a practical and viable career choice, which is often underappreciated or over looked. This complete learning package exposes students to key aspects entrepreneurship. Objectives: Students will be able to • Define entrepreneur.• Describe the current trend with entrepreneurshi
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Economics, SAVING MONEY, SAVING, Personal Finance, Economics
Saving Money WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO SAVE.THE SECRETS OF SAVINGSCHOOSING THE BEST PLACE FOR YOUR MONEYThe worksheets for this lesson are in Google Doc format and PDF format, making this an excellent resource for distance learning or in-class instruction.This is a complete learning package with three lessons that cover the essentials about saving and savings account. Each lesson has reading comprehension worksheets, a PowerPoint presentation, a detailed lesson plan, and other worksheets to reinfo
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Psychology - Fun Activity - Inkblots! Mini-Rorschach Test Lesson w/ PowerPoint
Inkblots! This is an excellent package for a fun and fascinating activity for any students of psychology or health. It includes everything you need for an engaging and enlightening 2-to-3-class-period lesson structured around 4 of Hermann Rorschach's original therapeutic inkblots. It's a new-and-improved version of a lesson I've been using for years, and the kids always love it. I even use a shortened version of it on Parent's Night, and it's always a hit.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Psychology: Classical Conditioning in Advertising Gallery Walk Lesson/Activity
Have you or your students ever fallen victim to classical conditioning embedded in advertising? This engaging lesson and activity will reveal how it happens all the time. This lesson focuses on engaging students by first teaching the concept through relatable examples. After completing a mini-lesson using a short Nike YouTube commercial video lesson that teaches the concept, students practice the concept by finding and sharing examples of their own. The final activity has students complete gall
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Distance Learning - Ceramics (E-Day) "Who-What-When-Where" Ceramics History!
The "handouts" included in this download have been uploaded to Google Drive, (The Google folder link is included in the "Google-links.docx" file) and made into "Drag and Drops" used with Google Drive for Remote/Distance Learning Days. Just "Make a copy" to your Drive and share with your students!Additional Visual Arts E-Learning Activities can be found here.If your Ceramics students are like mine, you know that students do NOT wish to spend studio time learning about ceramics history! But as art
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Propaganda Presentation (Google Slides, PowerPoint)
Now 40 Slides! Available in Google or PowerPoint! Updated, revised, expanded! Looking to build some knowledge of propaganda with your students? Look no further! This PPT includes notes on many different types of propaganda, but also includes beautiful images and interactive work for students to engage in. Easily adaptable for your own unique style. This is a visually engaging, entertaining presentation that will help your students learn the concept of propaganda. Examples from 1984, Anima
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Animal Farm Digital Bundle: Background, Symbolism, Propaganda, Quizzes
A Brief History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict - Reading Comprehension Text
This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers.The text explores the origins of the Israel-Palestine conflict, it’s 100 year old history, the latest escalations and the possibility of holding successful peace talksAfter carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including:-comprehension questionsa definition matcha true or false exercisea multiple choice exercisea fill
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Modern History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
All Quiet on the Western Front Chapter Questions, Vocabulary, and Pacing Guide
All Quiet on the Western Front is, in my opinion, the best war novel ever. This is my best-selling product. This download includes:Chapter Questions for all 12 chapters*Vocabulary with definitions for unfamiliar words (including British slang and military terms)Pacing Guide and Pro Tips for teaching this novel*The chapter questions are specifically designed to outsmart the SparkNotes or Cliff Notes reader. Answer key is included.These materials were prepared by a World History teacher who uses
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
“What the Health” Documentary Film Guide w/ Answer Key Included
This worksheet guides students through viewing the documentary film “What the Health” (2017). This documentary focuses on the connection between our diet and disease, the misrepresentation of various food industries, and the exploration of a plant-based lifestyle. The film guide includes 27 total questions (in order as they appear in the film) with an answer key attached. Question types include 22 fill-in-the-blank/short answer and 5 longer-response reflection questions at the end, requiring stu
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Informational Text Lenses: Close Reading Through Informational Text Lenses
Here is a great way to make reading informational text a little more fun! This lesson uses props to teach students how to analyze informational text. Also included are examples for each lens from Harry Potter informational text pieces.
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8 informational lenses with explanations for each lens
*Vocabulary decoder lens
*Text feature analyzer lens
*Text structure decoder lens
*Author’s purpose analyzer lens
*Claim of the argument lens
*Counterclaim of the argument lens
*Agree le
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Tik Tok Templates | Social Media
Students love social media, so they will be excited about your next lesson using these Tik Tok templates! What's Included:3 Templates-1. Full TikTok profile with captions (lines for writing provided)2. Full TikTok profile without captions (only draw pictures)3. Single post with a caption (lines for writing provided)Ideas For Use:-Book Report (entire book, specific chapters, or individual characters)-Back to School Get to Know You Activity (get to know your students, post on bulletin board)-Biogr
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Social Media Templates Bundle | TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat
Stanford Prison Experiment: Case Study in Ethics - Engaging Analysis Lesson
Nothing captures students attention more in Psychology or Sociology than the infamous and controversial 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. However, the recent uncovering of primary source recordings found Zimbardo's team coaching the prison guards to ramp up abusive behavior. This has further delegitimized many of the original conclusions on human behavior found in this already controversial experiment. Should we stop teaching this largely debunked study? Not so fast. What we are left with is the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Fall of Rome Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Activity
We've got you covered tomorrow with this ready to print collaborative, critical thinking activity. Use on a Monday or Friday for a SURE FIRE boredom-busting pre-reading activity. I've used this for 8 years as the lead in to our section on the factors that led to the fall of the Western Roman empire. Printable handouts, Powerpoint/Google Slide Images, best practice tips, and answer keys are all provided. The Activity:Rome is burning - Literally and figuratively. There is economic unrest, p
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Crisis in Gaza: The Israel-Hamas War 2023 (Updated Frequently)
This is the best resource to teach your students about the ongoing crisis in Gaza and the Israel-Hamas War of 2023. This lesson is updated periodically to reflect changes in the conflict. This resource includes the following:- Lesson Plan- FAQ formatted reader- Infographics- News Article- Questions- Answer Key
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Psychology - Fun Activity - Unconscious Defense Mechanisms - Freud
The study of defense mechanisms is a great way to introduce your students to the world of the Unconscious and its influence upon our behaviors. Since we all do them sometimes--and we all know someone who does them almost all the time--it’s something everyone can relate to. Students are often pleasantly surprised to learn that there’s a name for these behaviors that they have observed in other people (and in themselves).
This introspective student-centered activity is simple but very engagin
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Comparing and Contrasting Hinduism and Buddhism
Guided Reading articles to help teach the background and basic tenants of the Hindu and Buddhists faiths. This activity includes two guided reading activities with questions and answer keys to help you teach, reteach, review, supplement or assess the Hindu and Buddhist faiths and how they developed in India. Students then move to the comparison activity where they will either collaboratively or independently complete a Venn Diagram-type chart to help you assess their understanding. This activ
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Forensic Files : DNA Dragnet (science video worksheet / distance learning)
MORE FORENSIC FILES! – CLICK HERE!*Video is necessary for completion of this worksheet.*Please watch video in advance to gauge appropriate content for your studentsAs of March 2020, the entire episode is available free on You Tube so it's simple to find and watch on any device. This makes this assignment ideal for individual computer lab work, homework assignments, or distance learning.*Forensic Files: DNA Dragnet (Season 13, Episode 20)A 13-question worksheet to accompany this video documentin
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: FORENSIC FILES: SUPER BUNDLE (300+ VIDEO SHEETS / PLANS / SCIENCE / SUB)
Can You Stop the Cuban Missile Crisis Problem Solving Activity
Can your students stop the Cuban Missile Crisis? Find out with this collaborative, scenario based activity. Students will be given five authentic scenarios regarding the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Castro's Rise, "Flexible Response", Bay of Pigs, Missile Drawdown, and "The Hotline"). Students will choose between three choices to guess which of the solutions the U.S. ACTUALLY pursued during the crisis. After choosing, students will engage in a flexible thinking routine in which they p
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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History U.S. or Government - Fun Constitution Day Activity - Rights & Reasons
Hostile aliens have conquered Earth! Americans must vote on 3--and only 3--rights or freedoms to keep under the new alien regime. Which will you choose and why? This activity is a great way to get students to engage in the topic of rights and freedoms on Constitution Day or any other day. It features a student-centered critical thinking exercise that serves as an engaging launching pad for a persuasive essay that encourages students to reflect on values that matter to them. The premise is an
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime TED Talk Lesson
This comprehensive TED Talk lesson delves into the important topic of how childhood trauma can impact health throughout a person's lifetime. The lesson is based on Nadine Burke Harris' TED Talk "How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime" and includes several interactive components to enhance learning.The first part of the lesson includes thought-provoking questions related to Dr. Harris' TED Talk, designed to encourage discussion and reflection. The second component is an online acti
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Causes of the American Revolution - Google Slides Student Activity
In this engaging All-Inclusive GOOGLE SLIDES student activity, students participate in a series of colonial town hall meetings to debate whether to rebel against British rule. In each slide of the activity, students will evaluate the events that deeply divided the American colonists and eventually caused them to rebel against the British government.Google Slides Student Activity Includes:- Teacher Instructions- Student Step-byStep Instructions- Pre-Lesson Hook: Tax Time Simulation Game- American
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Residential School System in Canada Presentation - Orange Shirt Day Lesson
Residential School System in Canada Presentation - Orange Shirt Day Lesson is a powerful way to introduce students to a dark time in Canadian history. The 39-slide PowerPoint presentation. The residential school system was a government-sponsored program that forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families and communities in an attempt to assimilate them into the dominant culture through education and removing the influence of their culture. This introductory presentation will provide st
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Importance of learning social studies
Social studies offers valuable insights into history, geography, and much more. Social studies captivates students by providing them with perspectives from the past, present, and future, allowing them to understand history and navigate current events. It enables them to appreciate how previous generations have shaped their present reality. In essence, social studies opens their eyes to the vastness of life beyond their immediate surroundings.
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Learning social studies offers many benefits to students in terms of helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world. Namely, it helps them:
- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
- Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
By teaching social studies, teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills, foster civic engagement, and promote social awareness and responsibility.
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