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Minneapolis Public Schools

Cereal Box Book Project

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
If you need a new way to approach reading assignments in your class, use a creative cereal box project as a book report. With all necessary templates included for each side of the cereal box, the resource guides readers through the...
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Food Label Fun

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders demonstrate how to read and analyze food labels. In this nutrition activity, 3rd graders watch a food label video and investigate labels from various canned foods. Students create a chart showing the percentage of vitamins...
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Physical Science: The Three Billy Goats Gruff

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore science through problem solving and learning how to solve the problem of the story "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." Young investigators will learn how to construct a model and design a solution. They will also keep records of their...
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What Happens to Rice at the Mill

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate rice farming  by creating an art project.  In this agriculture lesson, 1st graders read about the path rice takes from a mill to your plate.  Students utilize a  piece of paper to create a...
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Those Convincing Commercials

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study commercials and determine which cereal they feel is the most nutritious.
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Supermarket

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students watch demonstrations of 2 ways for people to check out at a supermarket based on today's technology. In this supermarket lesson plan, students conclude which method is faster and explain why.
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Advertising – Does it Affect Our Purchasing Descisions?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners consider the power of advertisements. In this consumerism lesson, students dicuss advertising techniques, advertising regulations, and analyze advertisements. Learners also complete and evaluate and ad count actvitiy.
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How do people use ecosystems and their resources?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine how natural resources are reusable, renewable or nonrenewable.  In this ecosystems lesson plan students see the effects humans have on ecosystems and complete an art lesson plan activity. 
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Hooverville Diorama

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore life during the Great Depression. In this  Great Depression lesson, 5th graders gain an understanding of what life was like during the Great Depression. Students draw conditions that families lived in and...
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Let's Recreate Our World To Make It Better

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine art by artist by Tom Rollins. They discuss the painting and what it means to them. They create their own models of apartment complexes based on ideas from literature.