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Health and Nutrition ESOL

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students bring cans of food to class to study and compare labels. They discuss the different information included and the importance of good nutrition. They create a one day menu that would maintain a healthy diet. They role play...
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THE FOODS WE EAT

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students discuss the five food groups and the seven basic nutrients. They decorate Food We Eat booklet pages with pictures of foods found on background, rubber stamp and animation tools in KidPix. (Booklet has a page for each food group.)
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Disposable vs. Reusable, Biodegradable vs. Non-biodegradable

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine and identify biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials. They discover ways in which biodegradable materials can help minimize pollution.
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Seasonal Customs Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th
In this seasonal customs worksheet, students identify, sort, and brainstorm customs associated with certain seasons of the year.
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Counting Seeds

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice skip counting strategies, estimation, and higher number addition. They estimate the number of seeds in bell pepper, and count seeds in groups of tens and ones after the teacher removes seeds from the pepper.
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Three Healthful Meals: A Practical Food-Guide-Pyramid Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students activate their knowledge of the food guide pyramid and the basic food groups in order to plan nutritious meals. They collect a handful of food images from magazines and glue them to the appropriate plates.
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Understanding Fractions - Cookbook Comparisons

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners explore equal fractions in relationship to a whole unit. They fold strips of paper into halves, thirds, etc. and compare them to the first strip which represents a "whole unit." Fractional parts are identified and compared.
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The Tropical Supermarket

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the sources of the various foods they eat. They examine how everyone is intricately connected to the ecosystems in which natural resources are produced. Students observe how the lives of people living in those...
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Got to Rot

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students make their own compost in a 2-liter jug and determine the actual volume loss in the composted material over a six-month period.
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A Big Book About Us

For Teachers K
Pupils work on fine-motor, creative-thinking and language skills as they share special photos and stories about their families with their classmates. Students create individual pages for a class book that will include drawings and photos.
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Consumer Education

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, while examining an intense list of vocabulary terms on types of money, change and simple foods, name and state the cost of food items in supermarkets, grocery stores and flea markets with flash cards and newspaper ads.
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Have You had Your *5 a Day*?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine *5 a Day* Dole program to reinforce facts learned about nutrition.
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Matter and Molecular Motion

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders define the states of matter and their properties. They demonstrate the air is matter and observe the effect of molecular motion through these activities.
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Understanding Modern Vietnam Through the Five Themes of Geography

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore Vietnam and prepare a studenT book about Vietnam using the five themes of Geography. These books be used to teach a younger classroom about Vietnam, as part of a service-learning project in our school.
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Trash Bashing

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students define trash, garbage, or solid waste, discuss ways of disposing of trash, list examples of biodegradable materials, and have trash relay race in order to sort trash into appropriate containers labeled biodegradable, reusable,...
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Market Simulation

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the role of markets in Asian countries. They bring items from home to barter with to simulate markets. They discuss the advantages and problems of exchanging and how price is determined.
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Eating a Low-fat Nutritious Lunch

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners describe healthy and delicious lunch foods to replace junk foods. They make and eat lunch foods.
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Eating a Nutritious Lunch

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the types of foods and snacks they eat for their lunch. In groups, they identify healthy foods along with unhealthy foods. They design a new lunch menu using only healthy food and identifying which food group they belong.
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5 A Day

For Teachers K - 6th
Students examine the 5 a day program. They sing different songs and discover how to be healthy. They identify different parts of the music as well.
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Let's Read! D.W. The Picky Eater

For Teachers K - 1st
Students read D.W. The Picky Eater, and identify one new food they would like to try.
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Phytochemicals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars identify song style and form. They create movement which shows the song form and improvise rhythm accompaniment.
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It's (Not) Just a Bug

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore, examine and reflect on challenges facing produce farmers. They study about invasive species and how they affect the agricultural industry by reading and discussing the article "Tiny but Hungry, Moth May Peril California...
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Breaking News English: The Mystery of America's Vanishing Bees

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English activity, students read "The Mystery of America's Vanishing Bees," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Still-Life Painting: Arranging Nature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine and discuss still-life paintings and develop a definition for the genre. They paint their own still life paintings from direct observation.