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Diet and Nutrition
Students figure out the nutritional values of foods to explain the nature of a healthy diet by looking at fast food nutrition pamphlets and calculating the values of foods then comparing them to the food pyramid.
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Carmaleetas
Learners identify the relationship between predator and prey in the food chain. In this food chain instructional activity, students work in groups and play a predator and prey game. Learners discover what happens when a predator does not...
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Do You Have Any....?
In this ESL food question and answer worksheet, students examine 7 pictures that show different foods. Students fill in the blanks in each question with the name of the food pictured.
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Chemistry and the Food System
In this chemistry worksheet, students review how chemistry has helped grow and preserve different foods. This worksheet has 11 fill in the blank, 3 multiple choice, and 6 short answer questions.
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Food
For this ESL food vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict common foods. Students match these pictures with the nouns that name them.
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Food Multi-Choice
In this ESL word and picture matching learning exercise, learners examine 7 pictures that depict food. Students choose from 4 choices the word that describes each picture.
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Now, We’re Cooking!
Practice nutritional cooking with a collection of fun meal preparation lessons. Each lesson includes a focus, objective, collaborative activity, and recipe to culminate what young cooks have learned about healthy eating.
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Investigating What Makes Fruit Go Brown
Is there anything that can be done to slow the browning of fruit once it has been cut? High schoolers determine the answer through five different investigations involving apples, potatoes, and chemical reactions. After each experiment,...
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Eating Out
In this eating out worksheet, students practice matching ten food items on the right to their appropriate pictures on the left.
Growing Classroom
Space Travelers
Groups of three scientists from the rocky planet Zog investigate the composition of soil so that they can take the information back to their home, create soil there, and begin to grow food.
Science 4 Inquiry
Edible Plate Tectonics
Many people think they can't observe plate tectonics, but thanks to GPS, we know that Australia moves at a rate of 2.7 inches per year, North America at 1 inches per year, and the Pacific plate at more than 3 inches per year! Scholars...
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Personal Health: Breakfast
In this health worksheet, students write or draw what they eat for breakfast every day for a week. They use shapes to show "go" foods, "slow" foods and "whoa" foods.
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Eating Healthy
Learners review healthy eating habits, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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Sinking Races
Students build plankton models and compete to see which sinks most slowly. They write, or orally present ,the adaptations they incorporated to slow the sinking rate of their organisms. Race results can be grounds for some prizes!
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Call it "Macaroni"
Who knew there were so many fun educational opportunities featuring pasta? Scholars read a brief informational text about the history of pasta (note that "macaroni" is spelled two different ways, so address this if kids are reading...
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What Colour Is ...
In this color words worksheet, students examine 7 pictures of common food items. Students fill in the blanks in the sentences that begin with the words "What colour is the----?" Students answer the questions and color the pictures...
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Forest Loss Slows as Asian Nations Plant
Middle schoolers survey the loss of forests around the world. For this environmental lesson, students read an article that outlines how forests are being lost and government interaction which encourages forests to be rebuilt. Activities...
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Burn Baby Burn
Students use the Internet to research information on the food pyramid, recommended daily allowances of nutrients, caloric intake and expenditure, and value of foods. They analyze their own eating habits and exercise level.
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Foods for Better Health
Students define biotechnology and discuss the economic impact of biotechnology. They also describe what a 1015 onion and a slow-softening tomato are and how they are produced. They examine the safety of genetically-engineered or altered...
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Noncountable Nouns- Food
In this ESL food word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures of foods. Students match these with the phrases that tell how this food is measured. Example: soup (a bowl of), bread (a piece of).
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Food
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students match names of ten food items with their names. The learning exercise is intended for use with English language learners.
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Iceberg Ahead: How Does Temperature Affect the Density of Water?
Demonstrate how ice floats on water and get the class thinking about why icebergs are so deceiving. Investigators then experiment with mixing water of the same temperature and water of different temperatures. Make sure to explain the...
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Soybeans: The Miracle Seed
Students discover why soybeans are called the "miracle seeds." They make their own soynuts and share other foods made from soybeans. They create a bulletin board of soybean products.
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Apostila 1B
In this ESL word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict different kinds of foods. Students match these with the words that describe them. The meaning of the title is not clear.