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Chefs of the Week

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, as members of a team, are asked to prepare one meal to feed one person in a day. They analyze their meal and their daily menu for the nutritional content and explain this during an oral presentation.
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Go Fish:

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders imagine that they are asked to determine the number of fish in a nearby pond. To count the fish one by one, they could remove the fish from the pond and stack them to one side, or mark each fish so they would not count them...
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Freckle Juice

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read Freckle Juice as a shared literature experience. This lesson plan has many good ideas of extensions you can do as your students go through the story.
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Won't You Celebrate With Me: The Joy of Lucille Clifton

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils explore the concept of poetry through movement and song. They watch Lucille Clifton read her poem, and write their own poem.
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Rate Your Plate

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders analyze the nutrients, calories, and food groups using the USDA CNPP website Interactive Healthy Eating Index. They write a summary of their personal findings related to their eating habits - including some ways to improve...
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Dribbling Speedway

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students control a ball while dribbling with hands and feet through obstacles. This is a heart healthy activity that accompanies the completion of several tasks as they reach their assigned station.
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The Awful 8: The Play

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students become aware of the cause and effects of different air pollutants. They present a play about the different pollutants.
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Why Do People Go to School?

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students investigate data on how one's level of education effects earning potential. They define the associated vocabulary.
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Exponential Growth - Contagious

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in simulating a flu epidemic. They debrief with a lecture about the ease with which diseases are spread.
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Grizzly Habitat

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students find areas on playground where they would live if they were a grizzly bear, share their reasons for their choice, talk about habitat areas, and choose their sites again, based upon new information.
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Smog City - Part II

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create an experiment about ozone levels using a Smog City Simulation on the Internet. They complete a worksheet and study associated vocabulary.
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MFL: Young Drivers

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine and discuss images from road safety programs. In groups, they role-play a scenerio in which they are trying to persuade the other to adopt an unsafe driving practice. They write a short article about their experiences to...
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Where in the Usa is Radon?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils determine the areas of New Jersey and the US that are likely to have high radon concentrations. Students draw a map of their own neighborhood that show soil associations in their neighborhood.
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Life Lessons: Imagination

For Teachers K
Students look at clouds and find some that are shaped like various items. They also pretend they are animals and make movements and sounds to resemble the animals.
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: "Synthesizing Content on a Continuum" Activity: Developing Effective Communication

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars express their opinions on the danger from HIV. They study appropriate speaking techniques and become aware what it feels like to learn that they have been infected with an incurable, fatal disease. The share personal...
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The effects of microgravity

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are given a scenario in the lesson that presents a problem that needs to be solved. They conduct research from multiple sources in order to gather information. This is used to contribute to possible solutions proposed by...
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Earth Day-Conservation Walk/Ride

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the relationship between conservation of our resources and the use of other modes of transportation (walking, biking and roller blading). They show respect for their environment by picking up garbage in the area. They...
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Geography Action! Rivers 2001- River Puzzle

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students cut out puzzle pieces and create a healthy river by putting the pieces together in a logical order on construction paper. Students begin by placing the "source" piece at the start of the river and the "mouth" piece at the end,...
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Microbial Contaminants in Drinking Water

For Teachers 9th - 12th
When presented with three unopened bottles of water, high schoolers are asked to tell decide which one is contaminated with a microbe. Students work in small groups and role play being a Microbiologist, a patient, or a recorder. The...
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Inhalants

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore the effects of inhalants on their bodies. Using role-;laying, worksheets and responses to stories, students describe how decisions about inhalant use may affect their favorite activities.
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Interconnections Between Private and Civic Life -- Focus on the County

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the connections between their lives and the government. In groups, they examine the roles that governments have in different societies throughout the world. They role-play the roles of County members in providing...
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World Geography: Who am I?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are able to provide a basic description of one country that has arsenic in its water supply. They are able to locate these countries on a map. Students explore the majors countries that have been affected by arsenic...
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How Advertising Works

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are shown how advertisers use persuasive language and imagery to con us. They use this knowledge to question advertisers notions to persuade us one way or another. Students create a new jingle for an advertisement for...
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Differences and Settlement in the Legislative Budget Process

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students discuss the issues at hand when legislators are trying to agree on policy. In groups, they role-play different roles within a sub-committee when trying to balance the budget. They present their findings to the class and...

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