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Dysfunctional Eating
Sixth graders write a 1.5 page paper explaining how to make their favorite nutritional snack. They need to assume that the audience has never seen or heard of the snack before.
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Eating Well and Keeping Fit
Learners look at statistics that show children who are overweight are increasing in our society. Students chart out ways to be physically active and how to eat a balanced diet. Learners devise a menu/activity chart in light of what has...
Global Oneness Project
Learning with Nature
Think outside the box - and think about education beyond the classroom walls - with a resource that has your critical thinkers watching a video about a nursery in Scotland that lets youngsters roam wild in a forest. Viewers reflect on...
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How Can You Predict the Characteristics of an Unborn Baby?
Students compare three sets of unlabeled human chromosomes and gather related data, trace chromosomes to pair them, and make observations about them.
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Sports Science
Students explore athletes and how they perform. In this physics lesson, students investigate how physics is involved in sports. Students go online to interactive sites that explain physics and biomechanics. Students also research and...
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Alcohol Tolerance in Drosophila and You
Young scholars develop and run a laboratory comparing alcohol tolerance in flies with and without the ADH enzyme.
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Show 303: New Research into Dyslexia
Students explore the causes of dyslexia. They view CT sans and MRIs to view the brain and how it responds. Students read reports about dyslexia. They discuss the nature of dyslexia, its cause, how to diagnose it, and its permanency.