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Financial education can help you to avoid bad financial decisions, credit card debt and poor financial planning for the future. In this interactive multimedia course, a series of seven dynamic modules covering everything from how to set up your first bank account to planning for your retirement will put you on the path to financial fitness. The course is suitable for the young, the workforce and for families - or indeed anyone seeking an introduction to financial skills. This version of the Financial Literacy course has been created primarily for residents of the USA.

Directory of lesson plans regarding the following topics: Budgets, debts, economic decision-making, entrepreneurship/innovation, exchange & money, goods & services, interest rate, investment, market failures, money supply, opportunity costs and trade-offs, production and consumption, role of government, savings, scarcity & choice, supply & demand, unemployment, general economic resources

"Browse EconEdlink online lessons by Title, Grade, or Lesson Plan Type. Please choose how you would like to view the lessons by clicking on the appropriate indicator. To look for a lesson plan by Concept, please use the Search function located on the side of the page. "

"Access all the great educational content found in the Understanding Taxes program on the Internet! This online version includes detailed lesson plans, interactive activities, simulations, and more! For Educators, every Understanding Taxes lesson includes the correlations to national and state educational standards. Each lesson plan includes a link to the applicable national and state standards, making it simple to integrate Understanding Taxes into your existing classroom curricula."

"The "No Phone Zone" lesson plan will educate students on the dangers associated with distracted driving (texting while driving, talking on the phone while driving)."

Lots of resources!  Learn more about the Scratch programming language: what is it, where it can be downloaded, and how it can be used in the classroom. Engage your students in problem solving and mathematics while teaching them how to design their own interactive stories, animations, games and more. Find additional Scratch resources including detailed lesson plans with corresponding video tutorials, a Use this rubric to grade students first Scratch game design projects.Scratch project planning flowchart, storyboard and grading rubrics.

Included in this site are over 30 lesson plans that address core learning objectives in reading, math, science and social studies. Each lesson plan includes: * A motivating introduction including student directions and learning objectives * Resources students use to complete the lesson (expedition journals and related data, bibliographies, Web site links, etc.) * A student worksheet that can be printed * Assessment strategies and formats

Lesson plans based on the September 11 theme.

Extensive list of lesson plans and activities related to terrorism.

We've provided a collection of educator-created lesson plans for you to use as idea starters for using GarageBand in your classroom. These wonderful examples come from educators like you, who are using GarageBand to enhance their curricula and student performance.

Thorough lesson plans for claymation project.

Good lord, Beth O'Marr demo'd this site and I had a language-gasm! Check this out!!

Drop in a relatively small text (800 words or less), and this little wonder creates graphic organizers, finds vocabulary, builds questions, does pronounciation, prefixes, suffixes.

good collection of presidential inauguration lesson plans

Site has links to resources every subject area in schools today, and many of the links have lesson plans, digital content, and other lesson adders.

Interactive, flash-based webquest about the connections between Renaissance life and modern life. Has a lot of motivating features, and includes lesson plans for teachers. Excellent site from the Allentown Art Museum.

Interactive, AND with pre-made lesson plans!!

a new national ed. tech. plan being developed now... to be released in 2010

Covers all types of math. Includes games and lesson plans.

FREE storyboard/script/text editor tool for planning movies, etc.

FREE STORYBOARDING SOFTWARE!

"A series of lessons for creating and implementing a classroom economy. Students learn an introduction to economics by being actively involved in a mini economy, named MoneyInstructor-nomics. This 10-week unit is compressed into 15 lessons. Each lesson includes background, objectives for the teacher, a detailed, sep-by-step plan, a selection of student activities, questions, journal topics, examples, or templates. The lessons begin with an overview for the teacher, sample parent letter, background, objectives, and class activities."