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4-H Nutrition/Health/Fitness- Intermediate Leader's Page
Have some fun with healthy living in 4-H! Through several activities, young members learn about healthy eating, basic first aid, and fun exercise options. Of course, service ideas are outlined to extend learning. Students use websites to...
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Using the Simple Present Verb Tense- Animal Activities
For this verb tense worksheet, students complete 8 sentences using one of three choices that describe animal activities that use the simple present verb tense. They choose from activities that bees, rabbits, horses, mice, and dogs take...
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FACS: From Milk to Cheese & Seed to Shelf (Ag)
Students explore eight Career and Technical areas and make connections with business, family and consumers, and technology. They examine and describe how agriculture and natural resources impact our quality of life. Students recognize...
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4-H Goat Activity Page
In this 4-H animal science worksheet, students will work with their parents and leaders to plan and implement a goat-raising project. Students can get information about goats and keep track of their progress on this worksheet.
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From Milk to Cheese and Seed to Shelf
Young scholars learn about food production by making cheese, seeing how a seed gets to a shelf, and discussing food safety. In this food production lesson plan, students complete 3 days worth of activities and learn about food...
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Make Your Own Water Pollution
Using the polluted water that was made in the prior instructional activity, your young environmentalists will mix pollutants together in an experiment. Then, they will design a water filter that will clean the polluted water to use in...
US Department of Agriculture
Serving Up My Plate
Within three nutrition-themed, inquiry-based learning opportunities, pupils take notice of their eating habits; delve deep into the five food groups, gain experience in planning meals, participate in a taste test, and explore ads from...
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Wildwood Dancing: Rewriting a Fairytale
After completing Juliet Marillier's young adult novel Wildwood Dancing, class members rewrite a traditional fairy tale, making three significant changes to illustrate a theme of their choosing.
Roald Dahl
The Twits - The Glass Eye and the Frog
What do a pair of stinky socks and a toy hamster have in common? The third lesson in an 11-part unit designed to accompany The Twits by Roald Dahl uses silly objects to teach about figurative language. Zany pranks and role play make for...
Horticultural Society of New York
Dress Up Your Salad
Salad dressings use a variety of different ingredients, but it's important to have a healthy balance of greens to create a delicious mix. Young chefs examine five types of herbs including chives, basil, dill, parsley, and thyme to make a...
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Holiday Wreath Ornament
Students make a holiday wreath ornament. In this holiday wreath ornament activity, students follow directions to make a holiday ornament using glue and cereal. They glue a picture of themselves in the center and add a bow.
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Open Cloze Worksheet 8
In this ESL cloze worksheet, students read 8 sentences that contain missing words. Students choose any one word they wish to insert in each space to make the sentence complete.
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Chalk and Cheese
Students make comparisons and identify opposites. Through discussion and word identification, students working independently or in pairs, compare and contrast things that are usually thought of as opposites. They practice English...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Sound Quest
Scholars cut, paste, and identify specific initial, medial, and final phonemes by placing them on a phoneme chart.
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Shape Sandwich
Students create sandwiches with an adult. In this shapes lesson, students are familiarized with shapes while making their sandwich.
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Yodeling in the Swiss Alps
Learners become familiar with the country of Switzerland, its geography and yodeling music. In this Switzerland instructional activity, students recognize that Swiss cheese is a producct of Switzerland and write about the process of...
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Making Rose Petal Beads
Students make homemade beads from flower petals while exploring Native American history, culture, and art.
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A Bunch of Questions: ESL Activity
In this questions worksheet, students complete a total of 19 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct answer to complete a sentence. Students may click on an answer button for immediate feedback.
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Christmas Dinner at Aunt Junie May's House
In this food choices instructional activity, students read situations about being at a Christmas dinner and answer short answer questions about making good food choices. Students complete 6 problems.
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The Ogre Bully
Students listen to the book, The Ogre Bully, and discuss the problems the farmer and his family had during the story. In this garden themed lesson plan, students examine different fruit and vegetables and plant them in soil to grow. ...
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Pizza for Everyone
Pizza is the inspiration for the cross-curricular lesson plan detailed here. Start out with a poem about pizza and move into a discussion about balanced eating. To close the language arts portion of the lesson plan, ask your pupils to...
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Food Choices: A Socio-Cultural Decision
Students discuss their food preferences. Using a flannel board and food models students describe what they would like to eat for dinner. Students compare their selections with their classmates. Students identify the nationality of ethnic...
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Who Cares for the Land?
A very thorough lesson plan focuses on what plants need to grow and stay healthy. There are excellent reading activities and worksheets included in this fine plan. A terrific way to introduce a unit on plants and their needs.
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Sandwich Stratigraphy
Two activities are included in this resource. In the first, junior geologists model sedimentary rock layers, apply the Law of Superposition, and demonstrate folding and faulting of the Earth's crust. The model is technically a sandwich....