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Profit and loss lesson plan

EconEdLink maintains a large library of online economic lessons for K-12 teachers & their students.

This is a great app for idea mapping, one of the easiest to use around.

Welcome To The Center For Teaching History With TechnologyEdTechTeacher presents The Center for Teaching History with Technology, a resource created to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Find resources for history and social studies lesson plans, activities, projects, games, and quizzes that use technology. Explore inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Learn about web technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, social networks, Google Docs, ebooks, online maps, virtual field trips, screencasts, online posters, and more. Explore innnovative ways of integrating these tools into the curriculum, watch instructional video tutorials, and learn how others are using technology in the classroom!

essons: Teens Financial literacy is a skill essential to future success and should be given the same weight in school as English or math. High school and middle school educators striving to augment their own financial literacy curriculum will find a wealth of material in these teacher's guides, student activities, and presentations. Log in or register to download the lessons.

GLOBALIZATION - LESSON 1: WHY IS GLOBALIZATION SO CONTROVERSIAL?

The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents modified for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities. This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on issues from King Philip's War to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and make historical claims backed by documentary evidence.

Consumer ed lessons ascross subjects 

Humanities lessons and student work. Some great resources here for investigation and examples of web 2.0 work that students have done.

A resource for ideas on some global issues. Students should explore this site for resources or idea for lesson plans that they may wish to use to promote their campaigns

Colonization is a strategy game where players take on the role of settles and build towns in a new land. A useful game for history lessons.

Using rich resources that encourage children's empathy skills can make all the difference in teaching about WWII. This collection has detailed lesson plans, sources of information, emotive images, audio interviews, film footage and display materials.

History teachers will like these resources for showing what it was like for children to live in the second world war. There are 12 lesson plans and quite a few resources that go with it.

A half hour animated documentary that covers the science of oil production, resource deletion and growth. Perfect for discussions and lessons about sustainability.

"The Head2Head interviews allow students to converse with historical characters: type a question, get a historically accurate reply! Each interview is accompanied by a worksheet and suggested lesson plans. Students can also print off a record of their interview at the end of the session. "

"The Birth of an American Empire (4 Lessons)"

"Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more. BOHWS has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, -- and many others."

"collection is intended to provide copyright friendly images for use by students and teachers in an educational setting. Lesson plans also included."

"How did the Abolition Acts of 1807 and 1833 affect the slave trade?"

The best of Humanities on the web, lesson plans, resources and more all searchable by keywords.