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Food Label Reference Guide

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this food label worksheet, learners read the label and dialogue bubbles to learn how to interpret a food label. Worksheet is for reference only, no associated tasks.
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The Crest Egg-Speriment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the effects of using proper dental hygiene. In this toothpaste experiment lesson, students use eggs, vinegar and crest toothpaste to determine the consequences of plaque on teeth and the effectiveness of toothpaste.
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Helping People Who Are Hungry

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss the concept of hunger.  In this hunger lesson, students discuss the book, The Story of Stone Soup.  Student then brainstorm a possible service project ideas and create plans to carry out their service project.
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Running

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in team activities and drills to practice running types and techniques such as high knee, skip running, back kick, big stride, etc... They participate in a 50 meter dash, relay race, and agility race.
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Stay Well Cards

For Teachers K
Students use ice-cube brushes to paint pictures demonstrating ways that they can stay healthy.
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Snowball Soap

For Teachers K
Students demonstrate healthy hand-washing techniques. They mix water and soap flakes, and create snow soap sculptures.
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Let's Learn the Flu Facts

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine the difference between a cold and the flu. They discuss the symptoms of colds and flu, complete a cloze activity, and discuss how to stay healthy.
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Let's Read! I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils demonstrate portion sizes that are too large and ones that are "just right."
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India: Where Remarkable Differences Are Ordinary

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students research India and Indian culture. In this Indian research lesson plan, students research and report on the lives of Indian children. The report will be in the form of a mock interview between a journalist and an Indian child....
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Protection

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create dolls in a variety of skin tones to help reinact different community helpers. They make a helping hands mural on butcher block paper. They adopt a doll and demonstrate how to treat others gently. They discuss along...
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Rhyming With Ramon

For Teachers K
Students study the importance of being clean and healthy while working with rhyming words. They waddle like penguins when the hear rhyming words in sequences, and tap their feet and clap their hands in tune to a rap about being healthy....
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Raising DrugFree Kids:: A Values Approach

For Teachers 1st - Higher Ed
Young scholars describe the components of a drug-prevention program, explain the place of drug-prevention in raising students and in the school curriculum, and design, plan and implement the Drug Free Kids program.
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Bicycle Safety Rodeo

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners participate in nine different stations in a series of bike handling drills and the simulation of traffic situations.
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Lead Awareness: What Everyone Needs to Know

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are provided with a general overview of the issues around lead poisoning in order to become more aware of the danger and effects it has on the human body, as well as how to treat and prevent the disease. They explore basic laws...
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Stay Away Tooth Decay

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss what is meant by good dental hygiene. They identify food and drinks that are good and bad for their teeth. They use an egg to represent their teeth and place it in a dark liquid overnight. They predict what will happen...
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Belt-Abouts Lesson 4

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars continue to examine the importance of wearing a seat belt. After identifying new vocabulary, they discuss the ways in which wearing a seat belt can better people's lives. They write a letter to the newspaper to state why...
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A Message From Your Heart

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore their heart and how the blood flows through the circulation system.
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Million Dollar Machine

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore their self-awareness. They discuss the words unique, extraordinary and irreplaceable and their strengths and weaknesses. They write five things their bodies or Million Dollar Machines can do and investigate their blood...
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"Hector's World": Welcome to the Carnival

For Teachers Pre-K
Students view a cartoon that introduces the concept of trust. For this trustworthiness lesson, students evaluate behaviors and traits of the characters in "Welcome to the Carnival" and identify who can be trusted. Students complete a...
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Cardio-Vascular Endurance

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students in a special education class work to improve their endurance. As a class, they complete the same exercises at the beginning of each class trying to increase the number of reps. They are also introduced to healthy eating habits...
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What is Child Labor?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine the topic of child labor in history. They discuss jobs that children their age would have done before child labor laws. They decide on an action to take on Labor Day to share what they have learned with others.
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Eight Ways to Celebrate Fruit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Activities designed to incorporate the study of fruit into your classroom during National Fruit and Vegetable Month.
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Live Well Now to Live Longer Later

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders select a topic to research, completing the sentence, "Are the effects of _______ really that detrimental to one's health?" They record information in a journal, including sources of information. Students work in groups with...
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Dealing with Growth and Change

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners discuss the right and wrong actions of a young Navajo boy. Using that information, they compare and contrast his culture to their own. In groups, they create a newspaper or poster showing the cultural contributions of the...