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Understanding Waves
Students examine the physical properties of waves to explore the word crest and trough. They use toys to study waves in air, water and light.
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Family Life Cycle - Breakfast Lab
Learners review the nutritional needs of various age groups. In groups, they plan a breakfast meal for different age groups and spend time making the foods. To end the lesson, they serve the food to their classmates for an evaluation.
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Behavior Assessment & Nutrient Needs
Students identify the factors that influence eating behaviors. They discover the nutrients that are needed in a teenager's body. They also identify the major food groups and examine the food pyramid.
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Diet, Exercise and Health
Students keep a food and exercise log for a week. They compare their log to the food guide pyramid and standards for exercise for their age group. They write a paper that explains how they intend to improve their health.
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Immigration Unit
Third graders develop an appreciate for the various cultures that are present in their local community. Through reading and research, they explain how various culture came to live in their area. At the conclusion of the unit, 3rd...
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Dietary Guidelines
Students study the dietary guidelines and what they do. In this healthy eating lesson students study nutrition labels and calorie needs.
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FACS: Running a School Bakery (Mktg)
Students explore marketing concepts while producing food items to sell. They are divide into groups. Students create or revise the Research Survey to use during the week to either determine the product they they sell or which variety...
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Contrasting Landscapes - UBC Farm Field Trip
Students visit the UBC Farm. In this lesson on various landscapes, students spend a day at the University of British Columbia exploring the farm and trail adjoining the campus. This lesson could be modified for use in any region that has...
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Measuring Techniques - Level I
Demonstrate food preparation techniques of salads, soups, casseroles, breads, meats, poultry and pastries.
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Reducing Air Pollution
In this critical thinking worksheet, students evaluate different scenarios to decide how the person or business in the scenario could help reduce air pollution. Students work in cooperative learning groups to decide what strategies could...
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Allosaur Survival Game
Students uses this game to see how difficult survival is even for a fierce predator, especially when it is young. It stresses: How much energy it takes to keep a large animal alive or a small one growing, The differences in the fauna...
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How to Stay Healthy in College
Students plan ways to develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle while in college. They keep a food log and cooperate as peer editors to make food choice suggestions for healthier eating. Students also consider the role of exercise in...
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Thanksgiving: Traditions
Students investigate the traditions and history around Thanksgiving. They divide into groups and research specific aspects of the holiday. Students then share their findings with the rest of the class. They also complete crafts,...
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Environment: Mealworm Observations
Students observe plant and animal growth and participate in class discussions about the subjects. They also record their observations in a log. Using observation and the scientific method, they describe the characteristics of mealworms.
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American Indians and Their Environment
Students create a storyboard of the three American Indian language groups showing the geography of where they lived and how they adapted to the environment. They compare European and American Indian views of nature and explain how these...
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Seashell Homes
Pupils listen to a story about seashells. They discuss shelled animals. Learners describe the function of seashell. Pupils relate the function of a seashell to their own dwelling. They differentiate between shelled animals that make...
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Analyzing documents
Students sort information pieces by structure and purpose. In this resource analysis lesson, students view several types of informational materials and work in teams to look for the way that piece is organized.
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Learning about Native Americans through Artifact Analysis and Artwork
Sixth graders assess how a Native American's environment and the geographic region where they lived influenced their food, clothing, shelter and the overall culture of a tribe. They study the impact of conservation, family, rural life,...
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DIY Lava Lamp
Students examine lava lamps and what causes them to work. In this density lesson students make a lava lamp and write the scientific explanation of what happens.
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Spear Point Production
Students explore that prehistoric people had to have a good knowledge of the physical world around them in order to choose the best material for spear production. They also explore that prehistoric people were intelligent beings who...
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To Eat or Not to Eat?
Students identify various parts of plants and determine which parts people eat. They conduct a celery stalk experiment in which they determine the value and use of the stem, and how it helps the plant to meet its needs. Students use a...
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Needs and Wants
First graders recognize the difference between needs and wants. In this treaty lesson, 1st graders chart their needs and wants to be used in making a treaty. Students negotiate what should be in the treaty based on the...
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Fish Farm: an open ended, student centered laboratory activity
Students are contacted by a fictitious company which raises tropical fish to do basic research for them so that they might keep their production costs down. They need to know the optimum salinity in which to hatch the brine shrimp that...
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Water, Water Everywhere (Pond Animals)
Second graders examine the characteristics of animals who live in a pond environment. In groups, they describe the various stages in the life of a frog and identify the characteristics of other pond animals. Using this information,...