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Curated OER

Building Aqueducts

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students simulate building a Roman aqueduct using an interactive website. For this social studies lesson, students design their own class aqueduct. They construct one inside the science classroom.
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Curated OER

Eating for Your Future

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars brainstorm ways to live healthy. In this health science lesson, students recipes that are healthy and appealing. They compile all recipes and develop a class cookbook.
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Curated OER

Food Safe Consumer

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explain how to prepare and keep food safely. In this health science lesson, students research common mistakes and tips for maintaining a clean kitchen. They identify main causes of foodborne diseases.
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Curated OER

Physical and Chemical Changes

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students differentiate physical and chemical changes. In this chemistry instructional activity, students identify five indicators that a chemical change took place. They complete a reflection journal at the end of the activity.
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Curated OER

"The City of Ember" Chapters 5 and 6

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this comprehension worksheet, students answer a set of 16 questions covering chapters 5 and 6 of The City of Ember. An answer key is included at the bottom of the page.
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Curated OER

Reflective Solar Cooker

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students build and use a reflective solar cooker to cook marshmallows.
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Curated OER

Conservation

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine how destructive fishing practices affect the health of coral reefs. They watch a Powerpoint Presentation, conduct an experiment, and in small groups create a Powerpoint Presentation.
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Curated OER

Pieces of the Past

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders compare and contrast the way of life of Native Americans in Texas and around the country. As a class, they brainstorm about the uses of pottery today and use broken pieces of pottery to create an artifact. In groups,...
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Curated OER

Topic: Math, Chemistry, and Food

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students listen as the teacher tells the story of Sisyphus rolling the stone up the mountain. Students prepare two batches of jello, one with fresh pineapple, and one with canned pineapple. While the jello is setting, students work on...
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Curated OER

Basic Sense

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders add fractions. After a class discussion on real life application of fractions, the teacher uses fractions strips to model adding fractions. In pairs, 5th graders model adding fractions by drawing diagrams. They justify...
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Curated OER

Keeping Warm

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders measure the temperature of water using a thermometer. They record the temperatures of water on a chart. Students use the temperature data to determine which materials are the best conductors of heat. They discuss their...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Home School Connection

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore responsibility by participating in a jobs activity. In this housekeeping lesson, students identify the work and preparation that needs to be done at their home if they are going to learn in a home schooling environment....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Cooking Experience With Blueberries for Sal

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will enhance the study of the color blue by providing a story, cooking experience and writing activity.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Cooking With the Whole Cup

For Teachers 7th
In this lesson, 7th graders use knowledge of ratios of fractions to solve the word problems.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs: Food for Kids

For Teachers K - 1st
Students participate in simple cooking activities and learn how cooking makes it easier to eat some foods, such as popcorn. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Cooking Up Descriptive Language Designing Restaurant Menus

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to develop their descriptive writing skills by creating their own restaurant menus. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Every American Recycling Together Helps

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Lesson where young scholars learn about recycling by collecting trash from the schoolyard and watching a podcast about recycling. Additional activities are provided corresponding to different subject areas, such as reading, math, social...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rural Energy in China: How Can Engineers Make a Difference?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars learn about five types of renewable energy that are part of engineering solutions to help people in rural communities use less and cleaner energy for cooking and heating. Specifically, students learn about the pollution...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Let the Sun Shine!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn how the sun can be used for energy. They learn about passive solar heating, lighting and cooking, and active solar engineering technologies (such as photovoltaic arrays and concentrating mirrors) that generate electricity....
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Let's Talk Turkey: The Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How does your family celebrate Thanksgiving? Are you joined by friends and/or family for a special feast? What do you eat? Most American families celebrate Thanksgiving by cooking turkey. According to EatTurkey.com, approx. 88 percent of...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Economics of Income: Which 'Wood' You Choose?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A key turning point in a nation's economic development is when it starts to use its resources for long term versus short term purposes. A natural resource example is trees: should people use wood for cooking food or building homes?...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Multiplying Decimals by Whole Numbers

For Teachers 6th Standards
Multiplying decimals is a life skilled used in purchasing goods, cooking, and spending money.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Sequencing a Story

For Teachers 3rd
This single-period lesson reinforces the concept of story sequence. Teachers of this lesson will read aloud Enemy Pie, by Derek Munson, How to Make An Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman. Then students will participate in...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Comparing Liquid Density

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Because different liquids have different properties, density also differs. In this lesson from the Illinois Institute of Technology, learners will calculate densities of water, dish-washing detergent, cooking oil, and other liquids.

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