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Supermarket Science: The King Sooper Lab
Students read product labels, compare fat, sodium, and sugar contents of various food items. They work with a partner and often employ the assistance of the deli and bakery managers in a supermarket.
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Winter Holiday Activities Extravaganza
Students define culture and explore elements that are part of the custom or culture of a place. In this holiday lesson, students identify the cultures they participate in. Students identify the differences in people's...
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Spring Lesson Unit on Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Young scholars read about Peter Rabbit. In this lesson plan, about reading and comprehension, students listen to the story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter. Young scholars answer questions about the story to determine...
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Phonics Activities for Aa and Ii
Students participate in a number of activities to study the letters A and I. They use food items such as apples and cereal as manipulatives for the activities.
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Snacks Aplenty Coloring Page
In this coloring worksheet, students examine a picture of an army of ants carrying food items into their anthill. Students color the picture.
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Food Rainbow
Learners 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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Name That Point!
Students compare projectile point attributes, identify and classify points, and match projectile points to a chronology.
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What Are Grains?
This activity is like having a show-and-tell. Bring in lots of items, or packaging, from the grain group. Bread, rice, cracker, cereal, oats, you get the idea. Perhaps first start by checking in and asking what the class knows about...
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Alphabet Shopping
The act of making up a grocery shopping list can have a lot of learning built into it. Kids love to do "grown-up" tasks, and this simple instructional activity allows them to do just that. Learners make up a shopping list by combining...
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Five Utah Indian Tribes
Fourth graders study the five Utah Indian Tribes being able to identify the tribes by name and location.
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Read and Match Activity
In this read and match worksheet, students draw lines to match pictures with their correct names; all pictures are of food items, 12 total.
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Many Uses of Plants
Students research and discuss non-food plant products that are in common use, and mark on a world map the name of the country where the plant is grown.
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The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. For this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students eat while they act as links in the food chain. Popcorn bags stand for food energy that is passed along the links in a food chain from the sun,...
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Mollusk Matching
Students look carefully at shells and observe the differences between
species and the names of common shells. Then they identify and complete a Mollusk Matching handout included in the lesson and write the letter of each shell in the...
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Scavenger Hunt
Students and their families participate in nature walk to locate, observe, and identify scavenger hunt items as well as other items of interest, compare and discuss finds with each other, and identify items found that do not belong in...
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A Wild Family Album!
Learners create a scrapbook style family album for a selected animal. They complete an interactive Internet activity on research reports, fill out a graphic organizer, diagram a food web, and complete their scrapbook that includes...
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The Magic School Bus Dries Up
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students work in small groups to find out if foods they eat contain water.
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Lab Management - Level II
Students who know what lab procedures are expected will work more effectively and be more successful during their lab experiences. See Preface Materials: Students decide upon lab partners and sign their names for each unit. Hand each...
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Culture Box
Sixth graders are asked what is culture? They find out their family history and all the nationalities represented in their family. Students discuss their culture with the class. They create culture boxes with a design that integrates...
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Classification
Students examine why scientists classify living organisms. They list and classify items they buy at the grocery store, sort and classify leaves, explore various websites, and write a biography of Carolus Linnaeus.
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Working Together to Solve a Problem
Students create a food and clothing drive at their school. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students listen to the story Selavi, That is Life, to help them understand homelessness. Then, students brainstorm ways to implement...
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Revisiting Walden Pond in 2003
Students make lists of things they would take with them if they were about to set off to live for a year in the woods. They read Thoreau's Walden Pond and compare and discuss their lists and the actual list of items Thoreau took with him...
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Sing of Spring! Decision Making Enrichment Worksheet
For this money decision making enrichment worksheet, 5th graders complete 4 tables that show how much decorations or entertainment will cost for a spring party. They use multiplication of money to determine the costs. They record the...
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Central Park Field Trip
Students visit the park to observe signs of spring in the forest and pond environments. In this field trip lesson, students explore the park for various items