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Nutrition and the Media: Cereal Box Consumerism

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
How many treats do you buy each week? Learners investigate diets and how the media tricks consumers into purchasing unhealthy snacks. They will investigate the designs and logos affiliated with cereal boxes and identify specific phrases...
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Froot Loops to the Max- Pie 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this Froot Loops to the Max worksheet, middle schoolers solve 2 different problems related to graphing data with a box of Froot Loops cereal. First, they complete the circle/pie graph using the given data including a key and a title...
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Rainbow Fish Graphing

For Teachers K
Students graph different colors of rainbow fish scales after participating in a shared reading of The Rainbow Fish. They answer questions based on the graph. They practice making graphs independently using colored cereal circles.
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Tell Us All: Tools for Integrating Math and Engineering

For Teachers 7th - 12th
What a scam! Middle and high schoolers pose as journalists exposing consumer fraud. For this lesson, they write an article for a magazine using data collected during previous investigations (prior lessons) to defend their findings that a...
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Nutrition: Gregory the Terrible Eater

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars listen to a story about a goat who craves human food. They discover the four basic food groups and discuss what they might eat if they were terrible eaters. Students retell the story by looking at the pictures. They...
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The Wolf's Chicken Stew 100th Day Celebration

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students celebrate 100 by reading Keiko Kasha's, The Wolf's Chicken Stew, graphing, and making 100 pancakes.
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Read Aloud: "The Bookshop Dog"

For Teachers K
Students listen to the book "The Bookshop Dog" and discuss what happens when there is a change in their lives. They create a class T-chart about changes and feelings, develop a graph related to the story, and define key story vocabulary...
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Don't Worm Your Way Out of This One!

For Teachers K - 6th
Students study different aspects of worms along with the process of vermicomposting by participating in a class experiment to study the time it takes for breakfast cereal to be eaten by worms.
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Phonics Activities for Aa and Ii

For Teachers K
Students participate in a number of activities to study the letters A and I. They use food items such as apples and cereal as manipulatives for the activities.
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Phonics -- Alphabet Activities for Letters Aa and Ii

For Teachers K
Students practice saying the letters "a" and "i". They examine and identify objects that begin with those letters and sponge paint the letters. They practice with all the letters in the alphabet this way.