Slice of Scarcity

A comprehensive writing workshop sequence helping students write powerful historical arguments. Covers general transitions, cause-and-effect connections, and specialized argument structures for U.S. History.

A writing-focused lesson where students apply transition and cause-and-effect sentence stems to major events in U.S. History, from the colonial era through the modern civil rights movement.

A 1-page quick exit ticket formative assessment. Features scenario-based questions focusing on opportunity cost, shortages vs. surpluses, and interpreting price signals in the market. Includes student name and date fields.

A comprehensive 4-day project-based learning unit where students design and run a simulated food truck business. Through this hands-on scenario, they discover, graph, and apply the principles of demand, supply, shifting markets, and market equilibrium.

A practical lesson teaching students how to write historical arguments using transition and cause-and-effect sentence stems. Includes interactive slides, a fast-paced task card warm-up, and a teacher guide.

A 2-page print-ready student worksheet centered around Tony's Pizzeria. Part 1 features scarcity and opportunity cost scenarios. Part 2 contains a structured supply/demand schedule and a custom blank graph grid for plotting curves. Part 3 guides students through market shifters, and Part 4 challenges them to explain price signals.

A 4-week introductory unit in Cultural Ecology designed for grades 9-10 meeting in 70-minute block classes every other day (10 total sessions). This unit explores how human cultures adapt to, shape, and co-evolve with their environments, culminating in a hands-on local cultural ecology field study.

A high-quality assessment lesson on the early interactions and trade relations between European explorers and American Indians, incorporating strong literacy strategies like active annotation and the T-E-X-T writing framework.

A behavioral economics sequence for 8th graders that explores the psychological triggers of spending. Students analyze Maslow's hierarchy, emotional triggers, the Diderot effect, and marketing tactics to design personal friction strategies for better impulse control.

The complete 4-day Food Truck Tycoon market simulation unit. Students choose their track and master demand, supply, market shifters, and market equilibrium.

A social studies lesson exploring civics, citizenship, and forms of government through structural morphology (roots and affixes) and highly visual, illustrative anchor charts.

A lesson designed to teach and practice key literacy and inquiry skills—Observation, Inference, Primary Source, Secondary Source, Fact, and Opinion—through a highly engaging junior detective simulation.