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Factual Writing: Instructions

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students write step-by-step instructions for tasks. In this factual writing lesson, students complete an online activity. Each group also writes directions for completing a task. A worksheet is available for more practice.
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Ayiti Lesson 3: Reflections

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students consider the cost of living in Haiti. In this Haiti lesson, students reflect on Ayiti, an online game, to examine the poverty experienced in Haiti. Students respond to the provided discussion questions pertaining to their Ayiti...
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Try Something New! Enjoy the Great Taste of Whole Grains

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students share their personal experience in shopping for whole grains. In this adult health lesson, students explain the different ways to cook them. They discuss how they can incorporate whole grains in their meals
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Try Something New! Enjoy the Great Taste of Whole Grains

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students share their shopping experience with the new WIC whole grain check. In this adult health lesson, students explain the proper way to prepare whole grains. They watch a cooking demo on a new recipe and implement it at home.
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What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore the concept of nutrition.  In this nutrition instructional activity, students identify the benefit of eggs as a nutritional meal or snack.  Learners also discover how to prepare easy meals or snacks using...
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Know Your Area

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate transit by analyzing their school surroundings. In this local geography lesson, students identify their school in relation to the rest of their state, country and globe. Students discuss their personal travel habits...
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Global Health: Hunger and Food Around the Globe

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss hunger around the world and come up with a service project. In this global hunger lesson, students define vocabulary words and discuss service projects. Students derive a plan, carry it out, and reflect on the process of...
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Life Skills - Advertising Tricks - Learning About Food Advertisements

For Students 5th - 8th
For this advertising worksheet, students learn about food advertisements, including jingles, images, products, animation and more. They then complete the 3 activities in which they create their own product, spokes-character and jingle.
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Small Group Counseling

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in small group counseling sessions to solve a common issue. As a class, they define anger and note the characteristics of the warning signs. They discuss different ways of dealing with their anger and how to use...
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Million Dollar Machine

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore their self-awareness. They discuss the words unique, extraordinary and irreplaceable and their strengths and weaknesses. They write five things their bodies or Million Dollar Machines can do and investigate their blood...
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Sun Seeking Plants

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate the story "The Tiny Seed" by Eric Carle. This story is used to introduce the children to the concept that seeds change and grow into plants when conditions in the environment including temperature, light, water and...
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Dietary Guidelines/Food Pyramid

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students study the recommended Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Food Guide Pyramid. They discuss the foods they eat, watch a video about the Food Pyramid and examine actual foods portioned out into recommended serving sizes.
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Mandarin Mountains: Get a Job

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students consider career options. For this career lesson, students use a selected Internet source to explore various jobs as well as the skills required for them. Students also consider the contributions of workers to the communities...
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Are You an Animal Safety Sleuth

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this animal safety instructional activity, students brain-storm ways to be kind and safe with animals throughout the year.  Students create a Kind Calendar for Animals in art class and distribute copies to other classes in the...
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What's Happening to Your Body

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students list the types of biological development that occur during adolescence and the nutritional, physical, and mental needs that support that development. They describe careers in the field of adolescent health.
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Have You Seen Me? An Introductory Lesson on the Loss of Biodiversity

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students investigate environmental law and policies involving endangered species as well as discuss human impact on biodiversity through an Internet research project. Students create a milk carton of their "missing" endangered species.
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Assessing Health Habits

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders discuss what are the characteristics of a personal with good health. They read an article about influences on health and discuss and perform a self assessment to gauge their personal health. They then go to the gym and...
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Regulating the Harvest

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study the effect of trapping in the Illinois Territory in 1805 and compare it to trapping today. They participate in a role playing activity in which they discover how practices in early Illinois Territory led to wildlife...
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Horticulture and Gardening

For Students 3rd - 6th
This answer sheet is made to be a companion to a Horticulture and Gardening worksheet. This could be used as a guide for activities in the classroom.
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If Those Dolls Were Real People

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore shape perceptions. In this body image lesson, students take measurements of childrens' toys and use ratios to determine what the dolls would look like if they were real human people. Students discuss the implications of...
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The Four Freedoms

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders consider the freedoms they hold dear. In this historical perspectives lesson, 7th graders identify 4 freedoms that they have and then compare them to the listed freedoms in Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech.
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Personal/Social Development: Stress Management

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils examine stress causing factors and identify ways to manage stress. They define stress, fill out a checklist, complete a worksheet, and participate in a role-play activity.
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Michigan Sea Grant

Water Quality

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners observe water samples and measure the samples' water quality. Students develop their own criteria for measuring water quality and test for temperature, acidity, oxygen levels, turbidity, conductance, sediment and hardness.
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Manners Matter

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students demonstrate proper behavior in the classroom and in other social situations. They write journal entries, create posters, invitations, and or multimedia presentations depiciting good manners. Pupils pair up with another students...

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