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Nutrition 2: Good Food, Good Health
Young scholars examine how food provides them with energy and materials for their body. In groups, they identify good and bad foods to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Using the internet, they research how food can affect their overall...
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Fruits and Vegetables: Primary Grades
Students complete a variety of activities in their study of fruits and vegetables. They role play a grocer in the produce department; they go on a scavenger hunt; they sample different foods made with fruits and vegetables.
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Your Body Within Your Community
Students identify and discuss the function of each of the major body systems. As a class, they discover how this relates each one of them in their community. They discuss their role as a member of their community and how people depend...
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Learning Fire Safety Can Help Save Lifes
Students list some of the fire-safety rules with which they are familiar. Write the rules on a black/whiteboard or chart paper. They then identify the reason why each rule is a good rule. They talk about the words from the News Word Box...
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Proper Hygiene
Third graders discuss the importance of personal hygiene and cleanliness. They examine why good oral hygiene is a significant part of maintaining a healthy body. They focus on the need for daily baths, hair care, and teeth cleaning. They...
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Breathing Rates and Exercise
Young scholars work in groups to predict which condition produces more breaths per minute. Groups record their breathing rates during rest periods and periods of activity. They graph their results and make comparisons to their...
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Germ Busters
Learners discuss importance of cleanliness, specifically hand-washing, in fighting germs and illness. They create cultures of their hands before washing, and then practice proper hand-washing technique.
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Five-Alive: The Value of Fruits and Vegetables
Students discuss importance of proper nutrition in staying healthy, examine food pyramid chart and identify different vegetables or fruits via eye gaze, and sample different vegetables or fruits at snack or lunch time.
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Facing the Day
Students utilize magazines to find pictures that display emotional states/moods. Each student creates symbol cards using magazine pictures to help indicate how they are feeling on a given day. Individuals are instructed by the teacher...
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How Germs are Spread and Prevented
Third graders gain understanding of the human body by identifying three pictures of bacteria/viruses on a sheet of paper and orally name what germs are, ways germs are spread, and how to prevent from spreading germs.
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Food Dictionary - Harvest Festival
Students explore healthy foods and dictionary organization. Students create a list of healthy foods. They construct their own food dictionary, with illustrations. Students model how a dictionary page should be filled with a picture,...
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First Impressions
Students explore first impressions. They examine that many of the first impressions are based on one's outward appearance, such as body or shape. Students explore that these first impressions can be very misleading. They practice skills...
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A Drug Encounter
Children discover with parent supervision, places where medications are stored and identify any chemical substances that are taken to change how one's body or mind works. Child discusses with parent differences between medicine and...
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Fireworks
Students listen to a short lecture on the history of fireworks and identify how fireworks are made. They paint a picture depicting fireworks and view a presentation on firework safety.
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The Human Body: A Life-Size Model On Paper
Students create a life-size paper model of the human body. They identify the major organs and state their fuction. They complete a quiz to end the lesson.
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Saying No!
Students work together to develop skits in which they practice saying no to drugs. They identify different types of situations they may be in when dealing with drugs. They role play the skits in front of the class.
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An Unfinished Tale...
Challenge your writers to compose a proper ending for the short story "The Talisman." Class members start out by either listening to or reading the first nine paragraphs of the story. The rest is up to them! Encourage kids to resolve the...
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Move Your Muscles!
Learners, through teacher lecture and class discussion, explore the three different types of muscles in the human body and the effects of microgravity on these muscles. They explain what happens to muscles in outer space and describe the...
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Relationships, Day 1: Self-Esteem
Pupils explore self-esteem and create a self-portrait collage. They discuss things they like about themselves, things they are able to do on their own, and reasons people appreciate them. They demonstrate how to give and receive...
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Sleep and Energy
Students discuss the importance of getting a good night's sleep. They make connections between sleep, energy, and having a good day at school. They make a sleepiness chart which shows how they feel each day for a week.
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The Sun Safety Activity Guide
Learners examine the sun safety guide. They identify the dangers of getting too much sun and not protecting themselves. They participate in hands-on activities to finish the lesson.
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Block the Sun, Not the Fun
Students discover ways to protect themselves from the sun. They identify diseases that are caused by too much sun exposure. They take a quiz and measure their progress throughout the year.
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5 More Ways to Have a Safe, Fun-Filled Summer!
Students review and discuss five important summer safety tips.
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Vital Signs
Students research health-related topics such as good nutrition, exercise, and the human body. They analyze their data and distribute it through the use of the Internet.