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The Circulatory System - Part I

For Teachers 1st
First graders consider what effect their behavior has on their health. Students make a fist to indicate the size of his/her heart. They complete a worksheet on the heart, coloring the arteries red and the veins blue.
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SAT Sentence Completion Practice Test 08

For Students 10th - 12th
In this sentence completion activity, students choose the answer that best completes the sentence.  Students have 10 minutes to complete 12 questions in this SAT practice activity.
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50 Cent

For Students 4th - 8th
In this famous people activity, students read a passage about 50 Cent and then complete a variety of in calss and homework activities including spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and scrambled sentences.  
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Child Survival Stories: Hope To Cope

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students brainstorm a list of the various scenerios going on their family life at home. In groups, they read about different perspectives on survival and identify ones they could use in their own lives. They share their own experiences...
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Gender, Age, and Health

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this gender, age, and health in American society worksheet, learners respond to 7 short answer questions and answer 13 fill in the blank questions regarding their role in American culture.
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Family Sculpture Demonstration

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students simulate the personal interactions in a family with an alcoholic parent. In this alcoholism lesson plan, students read a family situation. They simulate the interactions in the family and create a living sculpture of the...
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Health

For Students 4th - 6th
In this health worksheet, students choose the correct word to complete the sentences about health. Students complete 15 multiple choice questions.
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Kate Moss

For Students 4th - 6th
In this famous people worksheet, students read about the life of Kate Moss and complete a variety of comprehension activities including but not limited to matching, sequencing, writing and spelling activities. An answer key is included.
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Health and Home Economics

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders conduct research on a topic of choice. They discuss the topics of copyrighting, plagiarism, and biblipgraphic format issues, conduct research using a variety of materials and resources, and create a poster, travel...
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Are School Trips Too Risky?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students analyze and chart what risks are involved on school field trips. Students devise a study trip to take and dissect at the end of their findings. Students scale the conditions of what a risk is and we can manage them in the future.
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Government Lesson Plan 18

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify problems with a pure market economy, and examine and explain roles of selected regulatory agencies.
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How Far Will You Go And How Much Will It Cost?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how places of various size function as centers of economic activity. They develop a list of things that families shop for, analyze a local map, create a chart demonstrating how far they travel for the items they listed,...
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Street Language and Learning

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the type of language they use on the street in the city. In groups, they brainstorm ideas about a topic they decide on from a cluster of words. Using those ideas, they organize them into a written paper using proper...
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Wnet: Thirteen: Pbs: Methadone Maintenance "Invisible" Success Story

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about how methadone is helping heroin addicts kick their addiction. This article relays general information about methadone treatment and drug programs that utilize it.
Handout
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Global Youth Network: School Based Education for Drug Abuse Prevention [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource provides a conceptual basis upon which teachers, policy makers, and school administrators can make decisions about school-based drug prevention programs in order to achieve greater success in educational settings.
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The Successes and Failures of George Bush's War on Drugs

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes the successes and failures of President George Bush's "war on drugs," a strategy for eliminating drug use. Sponsored by drugsense.org.