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Activity for Standard 17,
19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29
Benchmark: 17.1, 19.3, 20.1, 20.2, 21.13, 21.14, 21.15, 22.(all),
23.2, 24.3, 25.(all), 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 27.4, 29.1, 29.2
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Essay on Florida Lottery Problems |
| Contributor: |
Blueprint 2000 Lesson Activities, developed by Dr. James
Croteau, Leon County Schools and Rhonda Flanagan, FSU Center
for the Study of Teaching and Learning |
| Materials: |
Information on the Florida Lottery |
| Activities: |
- Students will identify problems with the lottery using
tools of brainstorming, clustering, and categorizing.
- Students will generate solutions for given problems
with the lottery, i.e., people spending money they can't
really afford, money used to keep taxes down rather than
enhancements, etc.
- Students develop and defend strategies for implementing
specific solutions to lottery problems.
- Students write an essay on the pros and cons of the
lottery based upon opinion articles and other researched
materials.
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