Knowing how to budget your money is important for your financial security, …
Knowing how to budget your money is important for your financial security, ensuring you can pay basic living expenses like food & clothing, rent or mortgage payments, transportation, tuition, insurance, and have money left for entertainment. Budgeting is a proactive approach to organizing your money. Budgeting ensures you're not spending more than you're making, allowing you to plan for short- and long-term expenses AND help you make a plan to save for larger future purchases that support your lifestyle goals! You simply want to be able to track your income left over after all expenses to ensure you're not falling into debt.
In case you aren’t familiar with the term, an entrepreneur is a …
In case you aren’t familiar with the term, an entrepreneur is a person who organizes and operates their own business. In this lesson, you will identify the skills and characteristics that make entrepreneurs successful, investigate paths to becoming an entrepreneur (e.g. starting your own business, buying a franchise, etc.). You will also explore characteristics and skills that you’ve developed that demonstrate your entrepreneurial spirit!
In this Xello interactive lesson, you will identify the skills and characteristics …
In this Xello interactive lesson, you will identify the skills and characteristics that make entrepreneurs successful, investigate paths to becoming an entrepreneur, and explore the benefits and challenges of becoming an entrepreneur.
This lesson plan is designed to enhance understanding and awareness of essential …
This lesson plan is designed to enhance understanding and awareness of essential soft skills and employability skills for success in the workplace. Students will create a cover letter for a job they want and incorporate their strengths and weaknesses into their letter.
Even when you are doing a job which you don’t intend to …
Even when you are doing a job which you don’t intend to stay in forever, you’re building your employability skills. Employability skills are those skills which are transferable to other careers and which may help you to advance in your career. These could be academic skills like communication and basic math skills, or they may be personal characteristics such as critical thinking skills, promptness, and adaptability. In this 8th grade Job Skills lesson, students will investigate the skills and personal characteristics which are transferable from one occupation to another.
Scientists discuss whether or not endocrine disrupting chemicals, which may cause birth …
Scientists discuss whether or not endocrine disrupting chemicals, which may cause birth defects and other health concerns, should be controlled in the absence of conclusive proof, in this video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: Fooling with Nature.
Watch students as they conduct an energy audit on a home and …
Watch students as they conduct an energy audit on a home and gain hands-on experience for a career in the green energy industry, in this video adapted from ATETV.
Students will develop ideas and a model of a mechanical system to …
Students will develop ideas and a model of a mechanical system to solve an engineering design problem, using criteria and constraints to guide the process.
Students will choose an engineering sub-discipline of their choice and present information …
Students will choose an engineering sub-discipline of their choice and present information about it to their peers in a presentation style of their choice. The presentation must include some type of multimedia format (Powerpoint, Prezi, Slides, Keynote, etc.)
Engineering a Difference follows three teams of engineering students and professional engineers …
Engineering a Difference follows three teams of engineering students and professional engineers as they work with communities in Ghana, Kenya and Nicaragua to build critical infrastructure. Together, they develop a clean water supply, electricity and a bridge to help these isolated communities thrive. Here are colorful, compelling stories of how engineers make the world a better place.
Bread has been an important part of the human diet since early …
Bread has been an important part of the human diet since early times. Loaves baked over 5,000 years ago have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs. Wheat has been discovered in pits where human settlements existed 8,000 years ago. In the Stone Age, solid cakes were made from crushed wheat. Bread provided ancient civilizations with a reliable food source. Students identify the parts of a wheat plant and wheat kernel and investigate the process of milling wheat kernels into flour.
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