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Psychology Today: Parenting: Decision Making

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Decision making is one of the most important skills your children need to develop to become healthy and mature adults. This article gives tips on raising good decision-makers and reviews the process of decision-making.
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Barry County Ysb: How to Teach Decision Making Skills to Adolescents [Pdf]

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A parent guide to a better understanding of the adolescent mind, and the steps to follow in order to help them to make good decisions. The process helps parents develop more trust in their adolescents, and helps teens achieve more...
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Kiddie Matters: Best Guide for Teaching Kids the Decision Making Process Steps

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Kids have to make a wide range of decisions on a daily basis. It can get overwhelming if kids aren't armed with the right tools to make good decisions. When children learn the decision-making processing steps, they make more responsible...
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Santa Clara Univ.: Framework for Ethical Decision Making

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion on how to recognize a moral issue and how to make decisions that are ethically sound.
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Virtual Salt: Decision Simplification Techniques

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Site provides thirteen separate techniques to simplify decision-making processes. Excellent information.
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Germany's Last Kaiser Wilhelm Ii: Political Decision Making in Imperial Germany

For Students 9th - 10th
Wilhelm II, who became Kaiser of Germany in 1888, had a profound impact on German and European history. Includes discussion questions at end.
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Virtual Salt: Creative Thinking Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Site provides information to help with generating ideas that would assist in group decision making. Detailed and thorough account.
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Mental help.net: Motivating Adolescents Toward Responsible Choices Part Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Part II of this article describes tools a parent has for guiding teens to make good choices, and the importance of being there for your teen to help them weather the inevitable storms of adolescence. (Published: Feb. 3, 2015)
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Warren Averett: 8 Ways to Make Sound Technology Decisions for Your Organization

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines eight maxims that can guide an organization in the right direction when it comes to making decisions about technology. (Published Oct. 30, 2019)
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Santa Clara University: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics: Thinking Ethically

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explores how to think "Ethically," and how to develop a framework for moral decision making. Content focuses on a variety of approaches that appeal to values in how to deal with moral issues. (Aug 1, 2015)
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Kids Health: How to Make Homework Less Work

For Students 9th - 10th
Most teens will never learn to love homework, but with a little help they can make it less of a burden. This site shows how to work smarter not harder when it comes to homework by easing its effect both mentally and physically. This...
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Microsoft: Making Good Technology Decisions: Establishing Decision Criteria

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the important criteria to consider when deciding what technology to implement in an organization. It talks about technical fit, technology maturity, skills needed, time to market when building a technology, solution scope,...
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Brain Connection: Decision Making Is Still a Work in Progress for Teenagers

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses research studies that have looked at the teenage brain and discovered that it is not fully developed until the early twenties, and this explains why teens take greater risks than adults do. (Published Mar. 20, 2013)
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Virtual Salt: Biases Affecting Information Processing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Author discusses eleven separate biases that can affect decision making. Also provides several factors at the bottom of the page which negatively influence decisions.
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For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students must graduate from high school with not only a firm foundation in mathematics and English, but also with the ability to approach with confidence new and unfamiliar tasks and challenges in college, the workplace and life....
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For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to the concepts of scarcity, choice, and opportunity cost.
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Mental help.net: Motivating Adolescents Toward Responsible Choices Part I

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explains the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation in the context of parenting a teenager. Then discusses the difference between controlling a teen versus giving them choices. (Published: Feb. 3, 2015)
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Cch Business Toolkit: What to Consider When Making Business Facility Decisions

For Students 9th - 10th
This article covers factors to consider when making business facility decisions including location, need in the facility, community, profitability, functions of the facility, efficiency, and more.
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Washington State University: Ask Dr. Universe: What Materials Would You Use to Make a Rocket?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Dr. Universe explains how many choices there are in building a rocket. A fellow professor at Washington State University helps to understand the basics of rockets.
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Texthelp: Making Essential Digital Communications Inclusive & Accessible

For Students 9th - 10th
Online content is often made inaccessible by our choices in font type, color, and size; the lack of captions on videos and alt tags on images; our use of complicated sentence structures; and, the lack of formatting and structure - to...
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Cyber Economics: Scarcity and Choice

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the St. Joseph's College examines the importance of scarcity and choice in terms of an economic system. A further explanation explores how various people have constructed utopias to assume away the problem of scarcity.
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University of Colorado: Strategic Choice in Negotiation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article contains information regarding four basic negotiation strategies, factors affecting the choice of strategy, and how the strategy selected affects the outcome of the negotiation.
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Voice of America: Election of 1928: Americans Are Presented With a Clear Choice

For Students 6th - 8th
Read a transcript from Voice of America's Making of a Nation series dealing with the election of 1928 between Herbert Hoover and Al Smith. You will read about the issues in the election and find that many national issues span time and...
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History Matters: Making Sense of Advertisements

For Students 9th - 10th
Your guide on how to make sense of advertisements. Examine an ad's intent, its audience, and other information you might need to know to make an informed decision.

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