Seventh-graders studied inflation and other economic consumer concepts at a consumer convention. Preactivities, workshop sign-up day, and the convention schedule are discussed. A chart of the workshop design is included. (SR)

To help students understand cultural differences, a seventh-grade social studies teacher devised a unit on ethnocentrism among the Iroquois Indians and on textbook bias toward ethnic groups in general and toward the Iroquois in particular. Six textbook excerpts are presented and activities based on the excerpts are suggested. (DB)