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Amphipods
Students identify organisms that live at the bottom of the body of water. In this biology lesson, students evaluate the effects of pollution to amphipods population. They examine collected data and create a bar graph comparing them.
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Design-A- Meal
Third graders work together to create menus for a fictitious restaurants. As a class, they use them to order a healthy meal and calculate the cost of the meal. They review the food groups on the food pyramid and what it means to have a...
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Design-A-Meal
Third graders record what they eat for a week. In groups, they develop a menu for a fictitious restaurant. They create dinners which include all groups from the food pyramid. To end the lesson, they practice making healthy food...
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Breaking News English: McDonald's Pulls Out of Iceland
In this English instructional activity, students read "McDonald's Pulls Out of Iceland," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 10 true or false questions about the selection.
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Rate Your Plate
Third graders analyze the nutrients, calories, and food groups using the USDA CNPP website Interactive Healthy Eating Index. They write a summary of their personal findings related to their eating habits - including some ways to improve...
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You Are What You Eat (Middle School)
Third graders determine what their ideal weights should be and how many calories should be consumed daily to obtain the ideal weight and/or maintain it. They research and prepare 20 cards regarding nutritional needs, obesity, and health...
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Setting up an Enrichment System
Students earn incentives from local businesses for both academics and good behavior.
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Collect the Eggs Game
For this Eggs Game worksheet, students cut out and put together the game board, tokens, cards and game spinner. Students try to collect the most eggs cards while playing the game.
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Menu Mania
Students explore the concept of estimating by watching a video, and discussing the strategies for estimation. They estimate the costs for various menu items, then calculate the exact amount spent.
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Issues Poll
Pupils chart out what an opinion poll is and its effects on issues in society. They view an authentic poll to compare/contrast. In addition, they type out a word association key to help assemble a poll and then take a survey on...
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Graphing the Daily Revenue of Miami Seaquarium
Seventh graders compile a table of the revenues of the 8 eateries (a combined total), Main Gate admissions, and the Gift Shop.
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Seafood: For the Love of Fish
Students role play a scenario specific to decision making in seafood management and conservation. In this marine science lesson, students estimate seafood consumption in their state. They recommend new regulations for better fishery...
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A Taste of Korea: A Chemistry-Geography Adventure
Learners explore the different aspects of Korean culture. In this geography lesson, students prepare different Korean dishes in the classroom. They create a visual display of things they learned about Korean culture.
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Vocabulary Multiple Choice Worksheet 16
In this ESL vocabulary multiple choice instructional activity, students read 8 sentences that have a missing word. From 4 choices, students fill in the word that best completes each sentence.
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Country Life City Life
In this dialogue worksheet, learners read a dialogue which compares the city life with the country life. The students use the dialogue to answer 10 multiple choice questions.
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Getting Real: Using Real Life Materials
Learners examine many different types of real-life materials such as menus or newspaper articles. They practice filling out job applications or ordering at a sitdown restaurant.
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Paul Bunyan - A Folktale Full of Math
Sixth graders solve math problems from a folktale story. In this solving math problems from a folktale story lesson plan, 6th graders read the Paul Bunyan folktale. Students determine today's cost of the meals that Paul...
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Keeping Warm
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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Let's Go Consumer Shopping
Second graders rotate through various centers designed to practice consumer math skills. They complete a task card at stations simulating consumer transactions that would take place at toy store, grocery store, restaurant or school store.
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Vocabulary: Going Out To a Restaurant
In this vocabulary worksheet, young scholars learn the importance of specific, powerful vocabulary by completing 10 sentences with the best word choice. All sentences pertain to dining in a restaurant. More than one answer may be correct...
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Verb Tense: At a Restaurant
In this verb tense worksheet, students complete ten sentences with the correct tense of the verb in parentheses. All sentences are about eating in a restaurant. This is an on-line interactive worksheet.
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LESSON 3: The Many Shades of Our World
Students recognize that people have many different types of skin color.
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit
Students develop an action plan to prevent trash from becoming a problem in the future.
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Cspi: The Need for Nutrition Labeling at Fast Food Restaurants [Pdf]
This 34-page document discusses obesity, nutrition labeling, the average American diet, the nutritional quality of foods from restaurants, and ways poor eating, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and premature death can be fought. Chapters...