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Other

Promoting Alabama Youth Development: Module 7: Making Better Choices [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Activities to help teens understand how to make good choices. Includes an activity feedback form for students to fill out, a poster, sample situations teens may face, and several short scripts for role-playing.
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National Institutes of Health

Nih Curriculum Supplement for Middle School: Looking Good, Feeling Good

For Teachers 6th - 9th
A great resource from the Office of Science Education which provides a curriculum for teaching about the musculoskeletal system, the skin system and how they interact. This curriculum emphasizes choices teens can make to ensure good...
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BBC

Bbc World Service: I Have a Right To

For Students 9th - 10th
How well do you know your own rights? This site aims to help people make good choices and understand issues that directly affect them such as freedom, equality, safety, domestic violence, and the law. Choose a human rights case study for...
Handout
University of Utah

University of Utah: Learn. Genetics: Lifestyle Choices and Risk

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of how to make the right lifestyle choices by maintaining a healthy weight through good nutrition and exercise.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Multiple Choice Planetary Motion Study Cards

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Kepler's Laws 1,2,3 including eccentricity of elliptical orbits. Good for reviewing planetary motions (NYS Earth Science).
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this practice lesson, which focuses on applying word strategies to understand the text, students will sample a classic story of transformation, a transformation from good to bad and back again. This transformation story has become a...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Are You a Good Consumer?

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders look at making wise consumer decisions by figuring out what is the better deal.
Activity
Live Wire Media

Good Character: Teaching Guides for Middle School

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Although these teaching guides are designed to be used with a video series called "Big Changes, Big Choices," most of the material here can be used without the videos. The topics covered in this series include both life skills and...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Decisions!"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Excellent resource for empowering young scholars to become better learners. This lesson includes helping students develop decision-making skills, promote critical thinking skills, and reflect on their beliefs. Good site.
Activity
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Government Evaluate Your Senator or Representative

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How much do you know about your state legislators? Are they living up to their promises? Are they making good choices that represent the wants and needs of the state? This lesson encourages students to do some fact finding on elected...
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Other

California Science Center: Build a Bug! [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Build an edible bug with this activity from the California Science Center. Make good choices based on what you learn about the body, wings, and legs.
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Other

Wosu Public Media: Are You Digi Fit?: Ways to Unplug: Tips to Stay Balanced

For Teachers K - 1st
This activity teaches young scholars how to make good choices with their devices and games.
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American Forum for Global Education

American Forum for Global Education: Move, Feet, Move

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Making good choices is the economic principle explored here at the American Forum for Global Education. Children learn to "identify alternative choices in conflict situations" through the use of verbal and nonverbal cues.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Choices & Consequences

For Students 3rd - 8th
We all have tough choices to make especially when it comes to peer pressure. Play this interactive game against other contestants to see how well you make good choices. Check out the links on the right to learn even more about peer...
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Other

Amy Poehler's Smart Girls

For Students 9th - 10th
This fun and inspirational resource helps girls to feel good about themselves and make smart choices, while also learning about the lives of other girls around the world.
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Other

Do It Now Foundation: Peer Pressure and Choices: How to Think for Yourself

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about how peer pressure can negatively influence your decisions, particularly decisions about drug abuse. Learn the importance of thinking for yourself and of making healthy choices when it comes to drugs.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Good Atoms or Bad Atoms? Iran and the Nuclear Issue

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning resource covers two days of instruction with scholarly material including video, readings, and graphic organizer handouts teaches students about the acquisition of nuclear arms, Iran's nuclear program and options for U.S....
Study Guide
IQ Site

Iq Study Activities: Grade 2 Social Studies: Citizenship

For Students 2nd
A set of fifty multiple-choice questions that assess students' understanding of citizenship.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Community Helpers at Your Service

For Teachers K - 1st
Show elementary learners the correlation between goods and services and consumers. "You will draw a picture of a community helper, and perhaps write some sentences about him or her, to show or tell how that helper provides a Service."
Handout
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Nutrition Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
The CDC offers a wealth of information regarding several specific topics that fall under nutrition including good health, exercise, diet and more.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using "Good Guide" to Create Better Consumers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This learning activity helps educators and students use a valuable web resource that ranks products based on three sustainability criteria: personal health, environmental impact, and social equity.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Choice Is Us: Monopolies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson introduces the concept of monopoly. It calls upon students to consider how monopoly power might affect the quality and price of goods and services offered to consumers. In light of what they learn about the history of trusts...
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Other

Museo De Arte De Puerto Rico (Museum of Art of p.r.)

For Students 9th - 10th
The online home of the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico lets visitors view special exhibitions and examples from its permanent collection. Its artist biographies and its glossary of art terms, which is accessible by clicking through to the...
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Other

Think Green: Earth Day Project Ideas: Grades 6 8 [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Give your learners the tools to live and think green with these fun educational projects and art activities. Projects are useful for helping students learn to make good environmental decisions. [PDF]