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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Mag Nificent Breakfast Cereal

For Students 3rd - 5th
You will devise a way of testing foods for supplemental iron additives in this experiment provided by Science Buddies. Then you will use your design to test different breakfast cereals to see how much iron they contain. The goal is to...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Food for Thought: Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to explaining the nutritional value of foods in the "Bread, cereal, rice, and pasta," group, this website includes information on serving size and book resources on foods in the bread group. Also included is a recipe for...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Iron in My Cereal

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will investigate the ingredients found in different cereals to find the amount of iron in each cereal. After their findings, students will write a short report explain their results.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Cereal Numbers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this activity, students build numbers from zero to ten with cereal and connect the number name and numeral. Students also explore number sentences for numbers up to ten.
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University of Massachusetts

University of Mass.: Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta

For Students 9th - 10th
At this website from the University of Massachusetts you can read about the different foods that make up the bread group in the food pyramid. Learn about the nutritional value of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta, and read about the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Cereal Magnets

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students will design a process that removes the most iron from the cereal. This activity is meant for the students to experiment with different materials using what they know about iron, magnets, and forces to design...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: The Cereal Box Problem

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A cereal company is offering six different prizes in their boxes. How many boxes would you expect to have to purchase in order to collect all six prizes? Known as the Cereal Box Problem, this question is explored here. A solution is...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Planetary Cereal Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a project which would be appropriate to use at the end of a lesson about the solar system. Middle schoolers will decorate an empty cereal box with information and games showing their comprehension of factual information about an...
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Curated OER

Smashing Apps: Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats Cereal: Advertisement

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The image shows a strawberry frosted mini-wheat looking at it's reflection in a spoon to advertise the cereal.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Iron Hidden in Your Food

For Students 3rd - 5th
An activity where students investigate how much iron is in a sample of breakfast cereal.
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Other

Whole Grains Coiuncil: Que Son Los Granos Enteros?

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish content. Describes the parts of a whole grain of one the world's cereal crops.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Lobi Dagarti Peoples

For Students 9th - 10th
The terms "LoDagaa" and "Lobi-Dagarti" (or Dagara) are used for a cluster of peoples situated across the frontier of Burkina Faso and Ghana. Hoe farming of cereals (sorghum, pennisetum [pearl millet], maize), together with some yams are...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Nuristanis

For Students 9th - 10th
The area known as Nuristan is located at the southern end of the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan. There are limited amounts of arable land in the Hindu Kush, but there are abundant amounts of pastureland well suited for...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Cross Sections and Nets: Cereal Box Grid

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will explore cross sections and nets of three dimensional objects. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Ready, Set, Breakfast!

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use this site to learn why breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. This article provides information on how breakfast jumpstarts your body and includes alternatives to eating cereal in the morning.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Static Cling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This hands-on activity explores the concept of static electricity. Students attract an O-shaped piece of cereal to a charged comb and watch the cereal jump away when it touches the comb. Students also observe Styrofoam pellets pulling...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Eat Iron?!!

For Teachers 10th - 12th
To gain an understanding of mixtures and the concept of separation of mixtures, students use strong magnets to find the element of iron in iron-fortified breakfast cereal flakes. Through this activity, they see how the iron component of...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Lesson Plan: Tony's Tiger Bites

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students are given a marshmallow cereal bar recipe and are challenged to make equivalent fractions while following directions.
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PBS

Pbs Mathline: Alphabits Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are given a baggy of Alphabits cereal to explore ratios and percents. Printable lesson.
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Other

The Food Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of food resources-- in chronological order can be viewed at this site. Want to know what the pioneers cooked or when agriculture began? When was the Moon Pie invented? How about jelly beans, catsup, or breakfast cereal?...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Put a Spark in It! Electricity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Uncountable times every day "with the merest flick of a finger"each one of us calls on electricity to do our bidding. What would your life be like without electricity? Students begin learning about electricity with an introduction to the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Boxed in and Wrapped Up

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students find the volume and surface area of a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box), and then figure out how to convert that box into a new, cubical box having the same volume as the original. As they construct the new, cube-shaped box...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Fortified Breakfast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, learners will learn that minerals are a necessary part of our diet. They will learn that different minerals have different functions in the body. More specifically, they will discover that iron is necessary to carry...
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Other

Mr breakfast.com: All Breakfast All the Time

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an excellent resource for healthy and tasty breakfast recipes, reviews of restaurants with great breakfast entrees, and features like "Ask Mr. Breakfast." Find ways to vary your morning meals everyday with simple ideas, read...

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