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Baylor College

Food for the Brain

For Teachers 6th - 12th
With a couple of neat diagrams on student handouts, your life science or health class will examine the contents and serving sizes of healthy foods. They dissect a slice of pizza and scrutinize the nutritional value of its components in...
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Assessment
Achieve

Yogurt Packaging

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
Food companies understand how to use math to their advantage. Learners explore the math related to the packaging and serving size of yogurt. They then use unit analysis and percent values to make decisions on the product development.
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Agriculture in the Classroom

Making Half MyPlate Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Establish healthy eating habits with a lesson focused around MyPlate's food recommendations and the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. Through class discussion and worksheet completion, scholars discuss the best choices of foods...
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Curated OER

Health in Progress - Portion Sizes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore portion sizes over the last 20 years. While visiting a specified website, students convert the increased calories to activity equivalents. As a class, they discuss healthy portion sizes and strategies to develop...
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Curated OER

Addressing a Personal Size Envelope

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students correctly address a personal size envelope. In this addressing lesson plan, students organize information such as an address, return address, and stamp on an envelope.
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Museum of Science

Linear Perspective: Painting Distance with Size

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars examine a simple set up to measure the change in the apparent size of an object as it moves away from them.
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Curated OER

Second Servings

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders understand the appropriate sizes for food portions. In this food groups lesson, 2nd graders create and measure a meal using correct portion sizes and correct measurements.
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National Science Teacher Association

Middle School Sampler: Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Focus on inquiry-based learning in your science class with a series of activities designed for middle schoolers. A helpful packet samples four different texts, which include activities about predator-prey relationships, Earth's axis and...
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Curated OER

How Big is Big?

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students evaluate the number of servings in super-sized portions of various types of food. They explore the amount of sugar, fat, and other nutrients in super sized portions. They state that they plan to eat fewer super-sized portions of...
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Noyce Foundation

Photographs

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Scaling needs to be picture perfect. Pupils use proportional reasoning to find the missing dimension of a photo. Class members determine the sizes of paper needed for two configurations of pictures in the short assessment task.
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Curated OER

Energy Plus!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
"Energy Plus!" from Together Counts is three days worth of lessons, discussions, and activities about nutrition. The materials help you teach youngsters about eating healthy and burning calories. Energy in and energy out. Included are...
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Curated OER

Food Pyramid and Dietary Guidelines

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine Food Guide Pyramid and Dietary Guidelines. They look at samples of serving sizes, sort different foods into their correct groups, complete worksheets to discover which types of foods they eat regularly, and discuss...
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Curated OER

The Optimization of Food

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars discuss nutrition and how to make better choices with food. In this algebra and nutrition instructional activity, students discuss the way the body process food and the importance of nutrition for our cells. They discuss...
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Cooking Matters

Cooking Matters: For Chefs and Kids

For Teachers K - 8th
Get your scholars cooking with a collection of activities that pairs the class to a community chef, promotes healthy snacking and drinking, and explores fruits and vegetables. Lower elementary learners create vegetable super heroes,...
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Global Oneness Project

Ancient and Modern Worlds

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The old aphorism, "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions," might well serve as the title for a resource that asks viewers to consider the plight of the people of the Gamo Highlands, an area in southwestern Ethiopia. These...
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Activity
Leadership Challenge

Serving the Stakeholders' Interests

For Teachers 7th - 12th
When school and community leaders are at odds, what's a young person to do? Grouped pupils examine the details of a difficult situation during the 10th in a series of 12 leadership activities. Presented with a decline in community...
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Printables
Curriculum Corner

“I Can” Common Core! 1st Grade Language

For Teachers 1st Standards
Support first graders with developing their basic language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard rewritten as a positive I can statement, students are encouraged to work hard toward reaching these clear learning...
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Union Elementary School District

Famous Dead People Project

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Despite the slightly off-putting title, the instructions and activities detailed in these project guidelines for researching a noteworthy figure will serve as a fantastic supplement to your next famous person research assignment. 
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Writing
K12 Reader

Lost and Found

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
You're walking down the street and find a wallet on the ground. What do you do with it? This age-old scenario serves as a narrative writing prompt that challenges children to come up with creative stories describing the fate of the lost...
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Judicial Learning Center

Your 1st Amendment Rights

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Why should classes care about the First Amendment? An engaging lesson serves as a powerful tool for answering just that. As all four cases in the lesson relate directly to freedom of expression in schools, young scholars explore the...
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Curated OER

Math

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems that focus on serving size and counting 5 A Day.
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Curated OER

Nutrients by the Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read and discuss an article on the amount of sugar in various food products. They compare the nutritional values of food products, calculate their daily intake of nutrients, analyze serving sizes, and compare/contrast their own...
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Curated OER

Good Food, Good Health

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate how food provides energy for the human body. In this physical health lesson, students access online resources to identify how certain foods can affect their health. Students discuss how many servings of each food...
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Curated OER

Food Labels

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study nutrition and the facts about food labels.  In this investigative lesson plan students examine food labels and the health facts and serving sizes.

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