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- 6th
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Students are given a variety of Earth Science topics which be covered during the year. They select one of their choices to research and work in class and at home to meet the guidelines for their report. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students create concept maps and classify various food items as either producers or consumers in a food web. In small groups, the research the ingredients found in various food items noting the autotrophic content. Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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Students compare consumer products, such as generic and brand name products. They consider reasonable personal trade-offs among them on the basis of features, performance, durability, and costs. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students are introduced to the study of economics, including an introduction to basic business types and systems. They investigate about international, national and California history as they take a historical tour of cooperatives and how they have evolved into the business structures that exist today. Students open a business of their own choosing and experience the business world first-hand as classmates act as consumers. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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The purpose of this unit is for students to make the rich set of connections between astronomy and the rest of science and technology, language arts, cultural studies (social studies), math, art, and music. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students identify safe practices that must be followed to assure the food chain from the farm or ranch to dinner table is providing safe and quality food for the consumer. Students visit websites to examine numbers of food borne illnesses in their area, take a trip to the cafeteria to discuss safe practices and conduct a lab experiment to find bacteria in the classroom. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students describe the economic relationship between farmers, consumers, and food companies. They examine the issues regarding the reactions of consumers in this country and other countries to the use of gene-altered crops in food products by reading and discussing "New Trade Threat for U.S. Farmers." Students then write a personal essay expressing their own views on the issues raised in various articles. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students examine the debate between doctors regarding the impact of drug advertisements in magazines and newspapers on their patients. They then explore various current ethical topics in science, and each develops a persuasive article written from the perspective of a person intimately involved in one such issue. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students study food chains and food webs. They assimilate the concept of prey-predator relationship and how they establish a food chain with a producer, a consumer and a decomposer. They choose a food that they had for breakfast and develop a food chain for that item. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students investigate the concept of food chains and how they are part of the environment and focus upon energy transfer. They differentiate between a producer and consumer while charting the hierarchy of survival found in a food chain. Full Review »
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