Howard County Schools
Planning for Prom
Make the most of your prom—with math! Pupils write and use a quadratic model to determine the optimal price of prom tickets. After determining the costs associated with the event, learners use a graph to analyze the break even point(s).
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Semicolon vs. Colon...And What is a Comma Splice?
Designed originally for higher education, this PowerPoint could also be used to introduce your high schoolers to the semicolon, colon, and comma splice. The texts do not contain pictures or graphics; instead, they present information in...
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Plant Parts
Little ones identify the parts of a plant and practice following directions at the same time. They color each part of the flowering plant the color indicated on the sheet. Roots are brown, leaves are green, the flower is red, and the...
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Food Rainbow
Students taste the colors of the rainbow. In this nutrition lesson, students match fruits to rainbow colors, prepare rainbow salad, and taste rainbow salad.
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Salad Party
Students bring different plant parts in order to make one big salad. They observe each part and classify it.
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Let's Sort a Salad
Students examine edible plants by identifying salad ingredients. In this botany lesson, students discuss the different vegetables that can be eaten in a salad and draw them on a worksheet. Students review vegetable vocabulary and examine...
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Start A Seed Collection
In this start a seed collection worksheet, students collect, label and display 15 seeds 3 each from a garden flower, a vegetable, a wildflower, a weed and the kitchen, and observe the differences.
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Christmas Dinner at Aunt Junie May's House
In this food choices worksheet, students read situations about being at a Christmas dinner and answer short answer questions about making good food choices. Students complete 6 problems.
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A Leaf, a Stem, a Root, Oh My!
Young scholars conduct Internet research on plants and complete a WebQuest on vegetable plants. They use a graphic organizer to display their findings, observe actual vegetables and design a salad, noting which part of each plant is...
Road to Grammar
Understanding the -ED Ending
English is a complex language, so take some time to clarify one aspect that is often confusing for English language learners: the -ed ending. This resource includes information about the different ways the -ed ending is used and provides...
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Nutrition
Fourth graders identify food groups, foods that fit into those groups, and look at the nutritional value of each food group. They also discover how to interpret and understand food labels. The whole class makes some burgers and fries,...
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Why Roots, Stems, and Leaves are Important
Young scholars use the Internet to research the importance of leaves, stems and roots to plants. They participate in a hands-on experiment to identify the functions of different plant parts.
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A Catering Idea
Students plan meals, create a shopping list, determine the cost of the meal, including incidentals such as labor and electricity used. In addition, they consider the cost of plates, table cloths, napkins, etc. Students prepare a meal and...
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Organic Feud
Young scholars examine possible pesticide exposure in their fruit and vegetable consumption. They compile fact sheets exploring various organic food issues and interview their parents about the food choices they make for their Students.
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Nutrition in Me
Students discuss and complete activities to further their knowledge about nutrition in their diet. In this nutrition lesson, students discuss their diets and the amount of vegetables and fruits they are consuming daily. Students...
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The Good Microbes
Some microbes are beneficial for humans. This resource asks learners to identify beverages that contain healthy microbes. There are six beverages shown, and pupils must place a check mark next to the ones they think contain healthy...
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Math
Students solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems that focus on serving size and counting 5 A Day.
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Eat Your Vegetables Challenge
In this healthy diet activity, students read the statements about vegetables and select the answer that best complete the 11 statements.
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Money and Time
For this algebra worksheet, students relate real world scenario to algebra. They use a mane to make choices when given a limited amount to spend. They complete a money maze and calculate the shortest distance between different cities.
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Shopping List
For this food worksheet, students update a menu to make the food choices healthier and write a shopping list in order to get these items. Students complete 2 activities.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Enjoying Food!
In this countable and uncountable nouns worksheet, students complete 8 sentences with the appropriate words from the word bank. Students also respond to 8 multiple choice questions involving countable and uncountable nouns.
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Sharing What is Ours
Students explore the concept of stewardship. In this service learning lesson, students discuss sharing and good manners. Students create sharing posters and learn a manners song.
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CTBS Mechanics Practice #3: Commas
In this mechanics practice learning exercise, students the correct usage of commas from four multiple choice options. There are fourteen questions, and the learning exercise tests commas, colons, and semi-colons.
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Eating on the Job
In this word puzzle worksheet, students match each occupation with a food choice. Food choices are plays on words. An example is a jockey's condiment is horseradish. There are 26 occupations and food choices to match up.