5 Fake Facebook templates and pages for student projects | Web 2 April 16, 2011 by mrkaiser208 Facebook is the place that kids hang out after school. Heck, it’s the place many of them hang out during school. I have seen several classes in the past few weeks work on Facebook projects. Science might be a little harder, but imagine students pretend that they are a part of a chemical reaction. There are several different platforms for doing Facebook projects in the classroom. Fakebook: This online app is the best I have seen. My Fake Wall (no longer functional) This is a cool template, much like Fakebook. PowerPoint template: This page template opens in PowerPoint, but functions surprisingly as a Facebook page. MS Word template: This template is a little harder to use and doesn’t look quite as good as the others, but it is another option.
Eleventh and Twelfth Grade Money Skills, Teaching High School, Economics, Business Back to Basic Economics Lessons Eleventh and twelve grade students are familiar with choosing electives and by this age, have a better understanding of what interests them and what they want to learn more about. By this grade, many students have completed their required math courses for college admissions and can focus on the courses they plan to use toward their future careers. By now, students know the teachers who are in charge of the business related courses and can decide who and when to learn from. Psychology and advertising play a large role in learning about finances. Students are shocked when this concept is first learned. Some long-term activities teachers will give students are to make up a business plan from the concept, to the advertising, marketing, and opening and keep track of all the cost and time involved. By allowing students to choose these courses at a young age, helps with the decisions of which career path they may pursue at college within the financial field.
ORG > Press Room > News > PERSONAL FINANCE COURSES IN HIGH SCHOOLS ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO—When Johnny and Jane return to school this year, more than reading, writing and arithmetic may await them. An increasing number of states are encouraging, and in some instances requiring, schools to better prepare students for their financial future by providing instruction in basic personal finance.At least eight states have legislated that personal financial education be either a requirement for high school graduation, or a course that must be offered.[1] These states include Idaho, Illinois, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, New York, Texas and Utah. “Just as interest in financial literacy education is growing, so is its necessity,” said William L. Anthes, Ph.D., president and CEO of the Colorado-based National Endowment for Financial Education® (NEFE®). “Many students leave high school today with poor money-management habits that will last a lifetime,” Anthes continued. The HSFPP is offered by NEFE in partnership with the U.S.
Lesson plans for teachers Common Core Implementation Kit enables the creation of a Common Core State Standards aligned lesson plan with a few easy clicks. Common Core operates from within Word 2013 and provides daily learning targets for Common Core State Standards, along with instructional notes, student friendly “I Can” statements, vocabulary lists, differentiation ideas, activity ideas, assessment ideas, common student misconceptions, and links to open educational resources aligned to the standards. Save time planning lessons and locating resources for your students The Common Core Implementation Kit is a free tool that makes it easy for teachers to create Language Arts and Math lesson plans aligned to the Common Core State Standards all from within Microsoft Word 2013. To create a lesson plan, a teacher selects the desired learning target and adds it to the lesson plan document with a click. System requirements
Financial Literacy Begins at School! According to the National Endowment for Financial Education, as few as ten hours of classroom instruction can be enough to persuade students to improve their spending and saving habits. This week, Education World offers lessons to help get them started on the road to financial responsibility! Included: Lessons about budgets, credit cards, producers and consumers, and more. According to Youth and Money, a study conducted by the American Savings Education Council, fewer than half of U.S. high school and college students have a regular savings plan. Only about one-fourth of those students stick to a budget, and more than one-third don't keep track of their spending at all. Financial illiteracy isn't limited to students. The costs of financial illiteracy are high -- and they last a lifetime! A brief description of each activity appears below. Where Does the Money Go? Charge!? Who Am I? Consumer.gov The U.S. government maintains this one-stop source for federal consumer information.
What's Up In Finance? . Games . It Costs What?! | Thirteen/WNET Emma, Byron, Kevin and Maria are four good friends. They all went to the electronics store and purchased the latest and greatest digital music player. The price of the music player was $350.00. . .but when all was said and done, each of the four friends ended up paying a different amount. How is that possible?! How can four people end up paying different amounts for the exact same thing? Well, it all has to do with those wacky pieces of plastic called credit cards. If you think you understand everything about credit cards, investigate the case files to puzzle out just what happened to Emma, Byron, Kevin, and Maria.
ClassJump.com - free websites for teachers Money Management & Financial Planning | Smart About Money Credit Counseling | Debt Management | Take Charge America Copyrights and Copying Wrongs Education World answers the question "What can my students and I freely use in our lessons, presentations, workshops, newsletters, reports, and Web sites, and what is protected by copyright?" Included: A tour of the public domain! Have you ever ... incorporated an innovative online graph into a math teaching master? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you're probably a terrific teacher! However altruistic your motives, the materials used in the above examples are protected by copyright -- and copyright law states that the owner of any tangible creative work has the sole right to reproduce, distribute, perform, display, transmit, or transform that work. "But everybody does it!" "People routinely get away with illegal copying in the classroom for the same reason that people get away with speeding on the interstate," said John Adsit, online education coordinator for Jefferson County Schools in Golden, Colorado. "The ensuing lawsuit was most instructive," Adsit added.