| Posted: 06/10/2010 |
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| Fed resource: | GeoFRED™ |
| Short description: | Graphing and averaging while learning GeoFRED |
| Lesson time: | 90 minutes |
| Materials: | GeoFRED, poster sized paper or similar material for student groups to present graphs to class |
| Audience: | Middle School |
| Grades: | 6, 7, 8 |
| Subjects: | Economic History, Economics |
| Concepts: |
Economic History - Business Cycles Economics - Unemployment |
| Documents: | Using-GeoFRED-activity-full.pdf |
| Tip/Tool: |
Students use GeoFRED to observe changes in the unemployment rate (by state) over their lifetimes, create graphs using monthly data in small groups, analyze graphs using Beige Books as a resource, present their results to the class, and combine small groups' annual averages to create a graph of the annual changes over time.
(see http://earthsciweb.org/MontessoriMuddle/2010/06/10/learn-math-and-economics-using-geofred/)
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| Submitted by: | Lensyl Urbano
Lamplighter Montessori School |