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Shopping Spree! - Meadowthorpe Elementary
 This
lesson is great for the study of economics, as well as math. Although it
was used with second-graders, it is completely scalable for use with much
older students - the older, the more they might be required to generate
their own spreadsheet, or select data online! For younger students, we
created a spreadsheet which allowed students to simply enter the names and
prices of products, and it automatically did all the math.
Students selected several items they wanted to buy and
were assigned the responsibility to find the cost of each item at several
local stores. Then, using digital display, the prices and items were
entered into the spreadsheet. The lesson included a discussion of the
relative merits of buying everything in one place versus driving to
different stores to get the cheapest price for each item.
Complete lesson
plans are online (including the Excel spreadsheet template) at Mr. Johnson's
TRT
Website.
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Submitted by Mike
Johnson
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Bryan Station Fort Project
Click here to view the PowerPoint online
From Alan Ford, Family Resource Center, Bryan Station
Traditional Middle Schools:
"This project initially started out as
a plan for Service-Learning. Through Service-Learning students are actively
engaged in learning and providing a service within their communities. The
way we got this program off the ground is using our Student Technology
Leadership Program (STLP). I worked with a core group of STLP students on
research about the history of the Bryan's Station Fort. We met after school
and in large and small groups to get ready for the Region 5 STLP
Conference. Our students did Internet research on historical accounts of
Bryan Station. We also looked into the descendants of the fort and tracked
some to present day. One individual is actively emailing the school and
supporting our information gathering. The STLP worked on brochures and
PowerPoint presentations. We grouped these projects together and designed
a final PowerPoint that would be displayed at conference and used in
education of future Service-Learning projects concerning the Fort. We took
one site visit in which digital photographs were taken for use in the PowerPoint presentation.
"Our next activity included our 6th
grade Read 180 classes. The Daughters of American Revolution (DAR) were
invited as guests to help tell the story along with the PowerPoint. Our
students will do research on Genealogy with the aid of Dick Forston and
Melissa Brewer. Next students will utilize this research to locate their
own family tree back to the Revolutionary time period. They will also apply
this knowledge to help investigate descendents of Bryan Station to present
day. Our plan is to continually add information that our students find to
our web page. Service will come in the form of students presenting material
to feeder elementary schools, the local DAR chapter meetings, and in school
orientations. We will also use this site for science experiments related to
water quality and add this information to future presentations. Students in
the Read 180 class wrote journal entries related to bravery and the time
period."
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Submitted by Dick
Forston
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Shopping Spree
- Second Grade at Meadowthorpe Elementary