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- Careers in travel: Working with currency exchange
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.5
- In this lesson for grade six, students will learn about foreign currency exchange rates and will understand the importance of currency exchange in the travel industry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Mandy Matlock.
- Opening an Hispanic restaurant
- This lesson focuses on vocabulary and currency associated with food, restaurants, and menus. Students conduct research to create an authentic menu with a companion recipe books. The lesson culminates in short presentations and food samples.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Susan Canipe.
- Confederate currency: An inflation simulation
- Using primary sources from the Documenting the American South collection, this lesson provides a brief simulation of inflation during the Civil War while introducing students to issues faced on the home front.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Lewis Nelson.
- Paper money in the Civil War
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 6.5
- The Confederate government and the states issued paper money during the Civil War -- a great deal of it, and in many forms. This article includes some examples of North Carolina's paper money, and explains the effect of paper money on prices.
- Format: article
- Europe
- Explore the culture, geography, and history of the nations of Europe with this sampling of educational resources found on LEARN NC.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Taxes
- Students earn classroom dollars, set up a bank book, pay fines, figure interest and pay taxes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
- By Cecelia Zimerle.
- The transformation of cacao into chocolate
- Transforming cacao into chocolate is a labor-intensive process that involves many steps. This slideshow tells the story of that process, focusing on one cacao plantation in the Barlovento region of Venezuela.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- Wampum
- Circa 1890 photograph of string and belt wampum, a traditional form of money used by American Indians. Wampum consists of cylindrical beads made from the ends of shells rubbed down, polished, and threaded on strings, which were often combined to form bracelets,...
- Format: image/photograph
- Taxes, trade, and resistance
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.3
- Origins of the American Revolution, 1763–1775. Article describes the reasons for British taxes and trade regulations such as the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts, the colonial response, and the escalation of resistance into violence.
- Format: article
- Negotiating taxi ride to hotel in Vietnam
- In Asian cities and towns, the way to get around is by motorcycle, moto, tuk-tuk, or other two wheeled transport. In Hanoi, there were motorcycle cabs. There are no taxi meters, so you must negotiate the price of the ride before you begin your trip. Often,...
- Format: audio
- Minting gold into coins
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 6.4
- Brief histories of the Bechtler Mint, a private mint in Charlotte, and the Charlotte branch of the U.S. mint, both of which operated in the middle of the nineteenth century.
- Format: article
- Electroplating: When is a penny worth less than one cent?
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 5.8
- In this lesson, students understand the chemical differences between pennies made before and after 1982, and gain an understanding of the process of electroplating.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Tammy Johnson and Martha Tedrow.
- Making change to $1.00.
- In this lesson students will work in small groups making change to $1.00 using coins and pictures of items priced from Sunday fliers. In advance the teacher will cut out pictures of items costing less than $1.00.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
- By Julie Hohns.
- Is ATP worth the investment?
- In this lesson plan, students learn about ATP using an economic analogy. Students use simple financial tables to explore the concepts of cost, revenue, and return on an investment as it applies to ATP in aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By MaryBeth Knight Greene.
- Revolutionary North Carolina
- Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the era of the American Revolution. Topics include the Regulators, the resistance to Great Britain, the War for Indpendence, and the creation of new governments.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Buddhist prayer and music
- Part of a ten-day vegetarian festival. These bells and a wooden percussion instrument are played by monks (as I recall) while worshipers wai, or pray at different stations. From my journal: Go to temple with Ani and Hans....
- Format: audio
- Timeline of resistance, 1763–1774
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.1
- Timeline of the events of the American Revolution between 1763 and 1774.
- CareerStart lessons: Grade six
- This collection of lessons aligns the sixth grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.
- Format: (multiple pages)
- US dollars in an Ecuadorian market
- A person holds multiple denominations of US currency. Articles of multi-colored clothing are piled nearby. Riobamba has a long and storied history. Its convenient location in the highlands between the coast and the jungle has made it an important crossroads...
- Format: image/photograph
- The value of money in colonial America
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.5
- This article explains the many kinds of money that circulated in colonial America and why it is nearly impossible to say what they were worth "in today's money."
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
