Resource Type

Themes

Websites

Extensions/ Activities

• http://www.jlna.org/resource.html#business

Gadgets for the seeing impaired

  Business for the blind

·         http://www.independentliving.com/index_cando.htm

Why is this calculator so expensive? Compare and contrast this and a regular calc.

Electronic greeting cards

  greeting cards

• http://www.kidscom.com/friends/ccards/ccards2.html
• http://www.animatedgreetingscards.com/home.phtml
• http://lib.benjerry.com/ecards/

Students copy-cat the main characters by making greeting cards and sending them to family members

Teacher resource page about Labor.

  Labor

•   http://hometown.aol.com/KidFun101/KidsLaborDay/HolidayFunPg15LaborDay.html

Look for the roll play simulation of an assembly line. Many other labor related stuff.

Web quest through the USA.

  American business

• http://www.ustrek.org/odyssey/semester2/021701kids/basecampsearchkids.html

Students go through the time line of business in America. Students create a storyboard that summarizes the info from the timeline. Each picture in the storyboard tells about an event in the timeline.

Bio of Henry Ford

• http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/inventions/ford_henry.html

Students read and summarize the  text.