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Health-related Illnesses/Job Opportunities in the Health Field
Pupils investigate, discuss and write about health related illnesses common among teenagers in this series of lessons. They research health related careers of interest to them
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Lesson 3: Job Opportunities in the Health Field
Students research health careers and conduct intterviews with people in the healthy profession.
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Paying With Their Health
Students consider the plight of immigrant workers. In this undocumented immigrant lesson, students compare the worker of the Industrialization era to the undocumented immigrant workers of today. Students read and discuss literature about...
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American History: The United Farm Workers (UFW) and Pesticides
Students are able to answer research questions through internet research. They write a bridf history of the UFW using research. Students are able to create resumes of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta by researching their biography.
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Career Education for Early Elementary Grades
It's never too early to connect children with the real world meaning of their work. A series of four one-hour sessions, plus a field trip, make up this unit on college and career readiness for first and second graders. After viewing a...
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Health Careers
Students identify careers in the healthcare field. They listen to a description of work done by family members, school personnel and community workers. They role-play a visit to the doctor's office and all the staff involved in that visit.
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Who Wants to be a Health Care Worker?
A PowerPoint-based game, reminiscent of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" introduces players to a wide range of health care professions. This resource is meant to be used as a career exploration activity for your high-schoolers.
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Vitamin D and Me
Students create a graphic organizer showing the importance of Vitamin D intake. In this Vitamin D lesson, Students list problems with Vitamin D deficiency and create poster boards in small groups. Individually, students will create menus...
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Safe or Sorry (SOS) Pre and Post Test
In this health worksheet, middle schoolers download the print version of the quiz presented. They respond to 12 questions related to foodborne illness and how to properly prepare food to prevent contamination.
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Advocacy Through Letter Writing
Students develop an advocacy plan to address a health-related need for a local, national or global health problem. Students write a detailed letter as part of their advocacy plan.
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There Is No Away
Students identify how trash is disposed of. In this environmental lesson, students read and discuss the poem "Sarah Sylvia Stout" by Shel Silverstein and discuss the ways people treated the items in the poem. Students discuss how trash...
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Why Are People Hungry?
Students discuss why many people don't have a balanced diet with nutritious food in order to not be hungry. In this hungry lesson plan, students learn what it means to eat healthy and start a service project for their community to help...
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Personal Development (Safety and Injury Prevention)
Ninth graders explain appropriate procedures for responding to personal, school, and community emergencies. They demonstrate basic first aid skills.
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Who Am I as a Career? Who Art Thou?
Seventh graders explore career options and goals. For this career lesson, 7th graders study occupation cards and find a career path they are interested in. Students work in groups to to sort occupation cards with a career path poster....
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Sharing Our Surplus Stash: A Trick-Or-Treat Twist
Students give the gift of candy to community members. For this citizenship and giving lesson, students read Franklin's Halloween and discuss why the main characters give away part of their Halloween candy. Students brainstorm who in...
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Radiation Reassessed
Students investigate the dangers of radiation by exploring recent nuclear tragedies. In this scientific debate lesson, students define the idea of radiation "half life" and determine if low doses of radiation are truly damaging to a...
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Home Sweet Home
In this Pilgrims worksheet, students analyze 12 pictures of common household items. Students circle all the pictures that show something that would have been found in a Pilgrim home.
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Economics: Property Rights and the Rule of Law
Students examine the economic value of property rights. In a classroom activity, "You're the Economist," they analyze actual research data from establishing land holding titles in Para, Brazil. They assess several case studies about the...