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When Building Up Leads to Breaking Down

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine where one develops his or her views about health and ways in which teen-agers exhibit these influences, focusing particularly on the rising trend of anabolic steroid use in teen-age girls.
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Winter Olympics in the Gym

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students develop their physical fitness while learning about some of the Winter Olympic Games.
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Design a Bicycle Helmet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to the biomechanical characteristics of helmets. They incorporate these characteristics into designs for helmets for various applications. They understand that using a bicycle helmet helps to protect the brain and...
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Drama: Working Together

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Young scholars participate in a host of activities designed to encourage creativity, collaboration, and cooperation. They experience walking in different ways, greeting various types of people, and mirroring, where one student duplicates...
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Patenting My Invention

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders learn the importance of a patent for a new invention. They use the internet to practice typing a classroom patent for a compound machine that their class invented. While on the website, 5th graders choose a month and...
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Promoting Safe Driving/Choices on Prom Night

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore ways to promote safe driving on prom night. In this driver education lesson, students interview people about driving on prom night. Students design a poster with their researched quotes and discuss the topic in the...
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Right To Privacy?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine privacy issues. In this global issues lesson, students discuss privacy issues, surveillance cameras, and national identification cards. High schoolers conduct further research about the pros and cons related to...
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Good Health

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students complete a unit with cross-curricular activities to learn about a healthy body and maintaining their health. In this health lesson, students complete 8 lessons to learn about good health, a healthy diet, healthy foods, healthy...
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Cultural Riches

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine culture and how immigrants adapt to American culture while contributing elements of their various cultures to that of the United States.
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Columns

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students view a video clip on skyscrapers. They discover how columns support different size loads. They participate in activities and discuss their results.
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In His Own Words: James Madison On the Problem of Faction

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students are introduced to the writings of James Madison and explain why he is often called "The Father of the Constitution". Using primary source documents, they examine his view of the Bill of Rights and what he meant by faction. In...
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The Dose makes the Poison

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate the effect of a chemical (they choose) on the germination of seeds. They calculate % chemical concentrations in water, form a hypothesis, and discuss the ethics of using animals in biomedical research.
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Diversity

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students access prior knowledge of the five senses and relate to students with disabilities. In this people with disabilities lesson, students research and use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast famous people and their...
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Paper Dart Airplane

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners create a paper dart airplane and measure its flight pattern. In this flight lesson, students follow the included directions to build their own paper airplane. The learners change the aileron configurations to see how it affects...
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Burn, Baby Burn (Or Not)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Physics learners apply the concepts of fluid pressure input and output to firefighting. Divide your class into small groups and give them each a few cards that list nozzle type, hose length, hose size, and structure dimensions, They are...
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Under Electronic Lock and Key

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners evaluate issues of privacy and security by discussing whether or not one must compromise privacy to better ensure security and vice versa.
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Kitchen Equip and Lab Procedures - Level I

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If students use and store kitchen equipment appropriately as well as utilize sanitary work habits, the foods laboratory will be a safe and easy place to work. See Preface Materials: As a motivator ask: "Why should I worry whether or not...
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Making Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
In this well-designed nutritional activity, students are given the opportunity to create their own daily food record, compare their nutrient with minimimun requirements, and think critically about their own food choices. Materials and...
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TOXIC TECHNOLOGY

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine what they already know about computer recycling and cconsider how computer recycling is contributing to a global toxic waste problem by reading and discussing the article, ""Poor Nations are Littered With Old PC's,...
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What's in a Willow?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study of nutritional value of edible native plants. discriminate between foods that have nutritional value and those that do not. They relate how food can affect how they think, feel, and perform.
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Something From Nothing

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners listen to story Joseph Had A Little Overcoat to explore people from another culture and how one item can be used to make other items; students use scraps of fabric and other knickknacks to create pictures or toys.
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Egg Fun

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars investigate the characteristics of eggs by playing and experimenting with them.
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Mining Simulation

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders put their knowledge of rocks and minerals into perspective by seeing how minerals can be mined and the difficulties and costs of mining. They explore the environmental impacts of mining.
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The Kindness Company

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students organize themselves into a simulated company complete with applications, interviews and training. They identify a community need they can fulfill related to cooking or sewing and work to make and deliver the designated product.

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