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Taming the O-BEAST-ITY Without Eating Right

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use the Internet to find out about eating disorders and maintaining a healthy weight. In this eating disorders instructional activity, students identify eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia and discuss complications....
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Worksheet
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Walking the Plank

For Students 6th - 8th
This is a cool math activity. Kids collect and interpret data based on a physical act. A board is balanced between a scale and a step, learners record a peer's weight as it decreases while s/he walks further away from the scale. They...
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Weight Training

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students conduct a class-wide survey collecting, compiling, and analyzing data about fitness, weight loss, and body image issues. They analyze the relationship between exercise and diet in weight control.
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Home Living / Daily Living: Importance of Keeping a Healthy Body Weight

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Prepare your special education class for a healthy life. They visit with a nutritionist, practice simple exercises, and discuss healthy food choices. They then make goals for weight loss and management. Additional supporting activity...
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Interactive
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Adding and Subtracting Weights

For Students 6th - 8th
In this online math worksheet, students practice adding and subtracting metric weight values. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A terrific teaching...
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Interactive
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Multiplying Weights (kg, g, mg)

For Students 6th - 8th
In this online math worksheet, students practice multiplying a variety of metric weight measurements. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A terrific...
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Assessment
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Gravity

For Students 9th - 11th Standards
Weight is a function of the distance from sea level. Learners explore the many implications of this fact in an inquiry-based task. Given the function, pupils answer questions before manipulating the function to rewrite the distance from...
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Mayor Puts City on Diet to Lose a Million Pounds

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read a story called Mayor Puts City on Diet to Lose a Million Pounds and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this current event Lose a Million Pounds lesson plan, students respond to literature by...
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The Biggest Loser

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Sometimes losing is actually winning! Learners use a proportional analysis to compare percent weight loss of contestants on The Biggest Loser. The resource provides data and clips from the show to facilitate the lesson.
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Worksheet
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Sixth Grade Miscellaneous

For Students 6th
In this math worksheet, 6th graders complete multiple choice problems about weight, money, and more. Students complete 15 problems.
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Weightlessness

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students compare and contrast the terms "weight" and "mass". In this physics lesson, students observe an experiment in which objects are placed on a balance scale and weighed under different circumstances. Partners drop items and observe...
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Walking the Plank: Student Worksheet

For Teachers 5th - 8th
For this math worksheet, students will work in a group to experiment with the weight of objects when placed at a distance from a scale (using a plank). Students will record and graph their results.
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Lose Some Weight- Evaporate!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students determine that some liquids are able to evaporate more readily than others. They create a balance using cups and a ruler to determine which end of a strip dipped in alcohol or water evaporates the fastest, hence loses the most...
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Obesity, Eating Habits and Weight Loss

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners conduct Internet research, view film and participate in class discussion to identify the problem and causes of obesity in America. They evaluate the food pyramid and break down the nutritional components of fast food and frozen...
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Worksheet
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Problem Solving: Metric Conversion

For Students 6th - 7th
Using a table, students solve 12 word problems about the weights of various foods at the grocery store. The solve addition and subtraction problems as well as convert kilograms to grams.
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Worksheet
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Belly Dancer Problem

For Students 7th - 9th
In this math worksheet, students determine the rate at which belly dancers lose weight.  This worksheet contains one multiple-step word problem.  It may be used as a problem of the week.
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Total Daily Calories

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of calories. In this calories lesson, students calculate their Basal Metabolic Rate. Students determine the number of calories they burn each day. Students use a conversion factor of fat to calories to...
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'fat Man' Finishes Walk Across U.S.

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students read and discuss an article about an overweight American man trying to lose weight by walking across the country. They complete vocabulary exercises, take a comprehension quiz and explore the uses of the past perfect verb tense.
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Weightlessness

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study weight, force and mass as it pertains to the earths pull.  In this weightlessness lesson students are divided into groups and complete an activity. 
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Hoodia Hoodoo

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students assess the credibility of various Internet sites that advertise and review Hoodia weight-loss products. They review news stories on Hoodia products and compare to the claims made by advertisers of Hoodia. Each student also...
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The Nature of Salt

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers record information from the periodic table for sodium and chloride. They determine whether salts are molecular or ionic compounds, along with sodium chloride's molecular weight, and relative weights
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Global Oneness Project

Then and Now

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The devastating changes happening to the Native American inhabitants of an island off the coast of Louisiana are the topic of an informational lesson plan. After scholars break into groups to explore particular topics, they come back...
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Aging and Weight Gain

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine what happens to the body as they age. After discussing factors that contribute to loss of fitness as individuals age, they plan an active activity for their family. They also plan a healthy snack or lunch so they...
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Extension: Word Problems-Weight Loss

For Students 4th - 6th
For this extension word problem worksheet, learners complete a set of 6 word problems about calorie ingestion and use. Answers are included on page 2.