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Someone in the Class - Children of Alcoholics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners analyze addiction in families.  For this children of alcoholics lesson students answer questions, complete an activity and play a game. 
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Chernobyl

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list some of the health effects of radiation exposure. They are engaged in a unit on nuclear power by demonstrating the potential environmental health risks involved.
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Diseases

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create a type of notebook or journal using colored copy paper on which to take notes. They complete research on a certain disease and report on it and then design their own disease causing bacteria or virus. Finally, 6th...
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What Did I Touch Today?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders describe and adopt behaviors for health and safety. They explore what germs are and how they can make you sick. Through graphing activities, 2nd graders examine the way germs travel and what they can do to prevent the...
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A Body Dilemma

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars explore the pros and cons of the selling of body parts in this activity. A discussion of how personal value systems impact science and research is developed.
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Coping With Loss: Exploring Ways To Turn Grief Into Hope

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss how personal experiences of loss and grief can affect survivors, discuss various ways to cope with loss and grief, ways to help others cope with loss and grief, and specifically, with the aftermath of violence.
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A Volunteer, Please

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners analyze the need for volunteers and how volunteering can help them prepare for the world of work. They research a career oriented website that has specifications of volunteer work. They determine the personal characteristics...
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Teaching With the Power of Objects

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students define value of an object. In this value lesson plan, students identify reasons for collecting objects, compile a personal inventory of items they find valuable, and then define why those items are valuable to them. In step two...
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How Does One Cope With Life-Changing Events?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify coping skills during times of stress. For this mental health lesson, 2nd graders read the story, Stressed Out Sally and brainstorm events that produce stress. Students rewrite a different version of the story...
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Washing Hands

For Teachers K
Students read stories, conduct experiments and create graphs as they consider the importance of proper hygiene in maintaining their health. They identify the best way to wash hands and design handwashing posters for classroom placement.
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What Is Cloning?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students differentiate between reproductive and therapeutic cloning and then use research, discussion, and writing in journals to examine their own personal opinions on these subjects.
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Able Sports

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students work together to design a new sport for disabled persons. They share their new sport with the class. They discover how mechanical and biomedical engineers use information to test prosthetics.
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Using Effective, Amusing Writing As a Model

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners use the author's writing as a model to achieve vivid description and engaging humor in compositions of their own. They examine the ways a writer can capture and hold a reader's attention and write a short personal narrative...
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Playing Historical Detective: Great Grandmother's Dress and Other Clues to the Life and Times of Annie Steel

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Students draw conclusions about an mystery person based on documents and artifacts provided. In this drawing conclusions lesson, students become detectives by reading and analyzing evidence provided. This lesson includes information on...
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I Am Special

For Teachers K
Students conclude and acknowledge that each person is unique and special. In this I Am Special lesson plan, students compare their digital photograph to pictures of people in magazines to determine likenesses/differences. They describe...
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Valentine's Day

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students participate in a gardening activity to learn about the growth process and how to show care. In this garden care activity, students discuss Valentine's Day poems for words of kindness. Students read a poem about a garden of love...
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Motion and Disease

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students participate in an activity in which they act like a real life person and apply kinematics motion equations to things.  In this discovery lesson students use real life situations to apply physics. 
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And the Beat Goes On...

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students respond to the Indian folktale, The Drum. In this philanthropy lesson, students reflect upon the folktale and demonstrate ways one person can make a difference in the world. Students construct a Powerpoint presentation as a...
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It's All in Your Mind

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Learners recognize diminishing cognitive abilities. affect independence. In this health lesson, students explore the struggles older people have so to their diminishing cognitive abilities.
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Out and About: The History of Medicine

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students investigate the history of medicine. In this medicine lesson, students may visit the Thackray Medical Museum, the Old Operating Theatre, or the Edward Jenner Museum in Britain online or in-person to discover details about...
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Identify and Write About Cause and Effect Relationships

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars write news reports about current issues. In this writing skills lesson, students report about the weight epidemic in the United States as they focus on fast food consumption and how it relates to poor health.
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Clay Sculpture: Relationships

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore art history by conducting an in-class activity. In this sculpting lesson, students examine previously created art sculptures in a textbook. Students utilize clay, sculpting tools and grey paper to create their own...
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Kumara Math

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore nutrition by completing math problems in class. In this food conversions lesson, students identify what the kumara plant is and how it can contribute to human health by regularly consuming an appropriate amount. Students...
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Alcohol: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate alcohol safety by researching the Internet.  In this drugs and alcohol lesson, students discuss the legal drinking age and brainstorm the problems drinking can cause.  Students complete a worksheet about making good...

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