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Forest Food Webs
Students consider the interdependency of life in a temperate forest by studying selected organisms from an Asian temperate forest and creating a food web.
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Heart to Heart
Students examine how social class affects health factors and outcomes by analyzing three case studies of heart attack patients. They reflect on the effects of commodifying health.
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Mmmm, Mmmm ... and Good
Students consider their own diets and examine an op-ed article about organically produced foods. They research alternatives to various foods for the creation of a supermarket and reflect on their own diets after keeping a food journal.
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Bacteria's Role in Food
Students grow bacteria cultures on agar in petri dishes and do a plate count. They participate in a yogurt making lab to see how bacteria produce lactic acid. They prepare a recipe and identify fungi, fermentation and the role of...
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Yeasts and Molds
Students investigate the characteristics and nature of yeast and molds help to explain how these microorganisms affect food production. They experiment with yeast in sourdough in preparing sourdough pancakes.
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Soul Food
Learners identify foods that they associate with different cultural groups in which they are members and speculate possible connections between specific foods and the cultures in which they are popular. They also explore the importance...
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The Musculoskeletal System The Muscoskeleton System
Students research the Internet on physical fitness and sports. In this physical fitness report lesson students write a report on an athlete of their choice.
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Endangered Relationships
Students study the interrelationship between the horseshoe crab and red knot. In this ecology lesson, students explain why several species became extinct. They research about endangered species found in their region.
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Fighting Hunger
Students participate in a service-learning project to help combat hunger in their community. In this current events lesson, students discuss possible causes for hunger in the United States. Students read a short story, conduct online...
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Diabetes - It's a Killer!
Students survey, graph and chart their prior knowledge about diabetes. They read a handout and complete a K-W-L chart. They develop a rubric to assess their diet and exercise and develop a shopping list, menu and exercise plan to share.
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They Don't Just Eat Grass
Students explore and examine different types of feed used for livestock. They discuss types of feed, the need for energy and health, and create graphs of food compared to categories. Students organize data and complete worksheets on...
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Ocean Market
Students identify some consumer goods that come from the ocean.
They classify these items into groups, identify their source, and calculate the cost of buying such goods.
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My Personal Improvement Plan
Pupils investigate what is necessary to design a personal improvement plan including making web using software. They research the meaning of Body Mass Index and how to measure it before accessing assigned web sites that discuss health...
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All About HIV and AIDS
Students use the internet to research the causes, effects and how AIDS is transmitted from person to person. In groups, they discover why women are more suseptiable to the disease. To end the instructional activity, they are introduced...
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The Numbers Behind Hunger #1
Students investigate world hunger. In this global issues lesson, students research world hunger issues using the World Food Program website. Students analyze statistics and consider how to address word hunger issues.
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The Big Apple
Young scholars study the buying and selling market and how prices are determined for an agricultural product. In this competitive market lesson, students study how prices are determined in a market by studying the forces of supply and...
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What Are Calories?
Students examine calories for the human body. In this calorie lesson, students explore the energy expenditures needed for different types of activities and how many calories are needed to support daily functions.
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Industrial Agriculture
Students write about the benefits that industrial agriculture has had on growing crops. In this industrial agriculture lesson plan, students research how technology has impacted the processing speed of growing food.
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Food: Early American Food Cycles Web Quest
Students complete a Web Quest on ways that Native Americans hunted for, harvested, stored, and prepared food and what types of natural foods were eaten. In this early American food cycles lesson plan, students discover many of the ways...
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Meal Planning For the Family
Young scholars study recommended dietary guidelines and explore the food pyramid. They create a profile of foods eaten to determine how well their diet matches the food guide pyramid suggestions. Students plan meals for their family...
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Stats on Reduced-Fat
Students demonstrate an understanding of the Five-Number Summary and Box-Plots after analyzing data from nutrition labels, forming a hypothesis and supporting it. They decide if there is a significant difference between reduced fat and...
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Health and Home Economics
Eighth graders conduct research on a topic of choice. They discuss the topics of copyrighting, plagiarism, and biblipgraphic format issues, conduct research using a variety of materials and resources, and create a poster, travel...
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The Food We Eat
Students plan a menu for one day after they study the food pyramid and learn about their daily food requirements. They are given an updated food pyramid with a summary fo dietary recommendations that replaces the old standard "four food...
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What are Hunger and Malnutrition and Who Are the Hungry?
Students discuss the main functions of food and how eating the right foods is important for a healthy lifestyle. Using the internet, they research those who are at the highest risk for hunger and how those countries are trying to solve...
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