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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine how migration affects population change. In groups, they create a list of reasons why adults change residences and research migratory patterns among older adults. They explain the effects of migration of senior members on families and communities. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students brainstorm a list of words they use to refer to the elderly. As a class, they discuss the importance of word connotations and explain those used to refer to the older population. They complete a handout and share their thoughts with the class. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students meet with an older adult to complete a writing assignment. Using a topic suggested by the teacher, they each write a story about their own lives and compare and contrast their perspectives. They share their viewpoints with the class and answer discussion questions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th - 10th
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Students, after reading and discussing an important novel depicting an older person searching for meaning in life, write an essay exploring one aspect of the novel via characterization, style, symbolism or theme. In addition, they give examples of challenges older people face daily and offer some possible solutions or alternatives to help them. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 10th
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Students, while analyzing children's literature works as a vehicle for a multitude of insights, practice analytical reading and writing scenarios about older adults. In retrospect, they read books aloud to young children as well as write their own children's story involving aging and intergenerational relationships. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students, while discussing/analyzing how older people can bring new insight to different perspectives to short stories, ponder the role age plays in story lines and create older fictional adult characters in an original short story. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students pretend to be old by simulating some of the struggles older people face every day with arthritis in their hands, hearing impaired, and normal loss of up close vision as they experience preparing a recipe. They identify the changing nutritional needs across the life cycle. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Higher Ed
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Students discuss healthy snacking and its importance for older adults, list types of snacks eaten daily, identify healthy snacks, review snacking tips, and review healthy snack recipes for ways to make snacks for older adults to enjoy with children. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the oral hygiene of older adults. They research the dental outcomes of being older and how important healthy habits can be. They choose foods that are better for oral health. The outcome of the lesson is having a reference guide for dental health. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students examine methods needed to survive in case of an emergency. They prepare meals that require no cooking, examine what is necessary for an evacuation bag, identify shut-off valves for utilities, and develop emergency contact lists. They review an emergency readiness checklist and create a personal emergency plan. Full Review »
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