Tom Jones
(Manchester - United States)I am a retired high school principal in my 3rd year of post-retirement re-employment teaching high school English.
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Language Arts Curriculum: Provides an understanding of the Chinese market and leads students through writing a marketing promotion to sell a product in China. Economics Curriculum: helps students analyze the trade relationship between the U.S. and China. The accompanying video can be found online at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/thenews/thedollar/.
Trade between the United States and China is causing friction as the balance of trade tilts more and more in China's favor. The accompanying video can be found online at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/thenews/thedollar/.
This economics curriculum investigates the notion that when consumers by stock in businesses or purchase the products that those businesses produce, they are casting a vote for that business or product and against the business and products of the competitors. The accompanying video can be found online at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/thenews/thedollar/.
In the six months leading up to the sale of Apple's original iPhone, the price of the company's stock increased close to fifty percent. The accompanying video can be found online at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/thenews/thedollar/.
This NCEE economics curriculum investigates the variables that contribute to the cost of gasoline. They learn that while OPEC nations do influence the price of oil and thus the price of gasoline, other factors also influence the price. The accompanying video can be found online at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/thenews/thedollar/.
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Science Curriculum: helps students understand atmospheric processes and the water cycle as well as the structure and function of cells and organisms and their relationship to their physical environment. Economics Curriculum: analyzes the potential success of products made from cow manure. Language Arts Curriculum: investigates the journalistic process and the possibility of the "lead" changing as new information is revealed to the journalist. The accompanying video can be found online at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/thenews/thedollar/.
