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What is DNA? DNA Extraction from Kiwifruit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students isolate DNA from kiwi cells, spool DNA from a kiwi, describe role of the DNA and genes, and explain how knowledge of DNA and genes can be used in genetically modifying foods.
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Getting Ready Picture Dictionary

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this getting ready worksheet, students identify the correct names of items, match pictures to words, and tick the items they use to get ready. Students complete 3 exercises.
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Fruit Cup DNA Extraction From Kiwi

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students extract DNA from kiwi using household equipment and supplies.
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Personal Hygiene Regimen

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and describe the importance of maintaining good personal hygiene. Individual students write a paragraph describing their personal hygiene regimen. Products used for personal hygiene are identified. This lesson is...
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The Price Is Right

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a list of products with estimated prices. In this algebra lesson, students learn to write equations using variables. They match their created list with that of actual products and compare their prices,
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 2--Health and Nutrition

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, while reviewing the vocabulary list on the board, identify basic personal hygiene products/practices along with daily grooming routines. They discuss the importance of these routines socially and health wise on a daily basis.
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The Chemistry of Hair Care

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students do hands-on activities and read information online in order to answer the central question of this lesson: How does understanding the chemistry of hair care, including the role of pH, help in the development of better hair-care...
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Determining Acids and Bases

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use purple cabbage indicator to test five know substances for acidic/alkaline balance. They discuss the safety precautions required both inside and outside a lab in handling acids and bases.
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DNA: What Does It Mean?

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore DNA using online tutorial. They perform their own DNA extraction from a clove of garlic and identify the key components of DNA.
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Methods of Collecting Information

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine a bag or box of soil containing items that they dig for. Their task is to become detectives to make conclusions about the area from which the items came as real archaeologists do.
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Understanding the Body, Day 3: Sexual Health and Hygiene

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify the components of good hygiene and the consequences of poor hygiene. They practice using different hygiene tools and discuss how often they should be used. They discover that hygiene is a personal responsibility.
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Proper Hygiene

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss the importance of personal hygiene and cleanliness. They examine why good oral hygiene is a significant part of maintaining a healthy body. They focus on the need for daily baths, hair care, and teeth cleaning. They...
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Volume of Solids

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers engage in a lesson that is concerned with finding the volume of a solid. They investigate and describe the characteristics of a favorite food and identify it as metal or non-metal. The lesson includes pictures of...
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Its And It's

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
For this ESL worksheet, students read 20 sentences that contain errors in the usage of "its" and "it's." Students locate the errors and write each sentence correctly.
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Run-on Sentences

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students read and correct ten run-on sentences by separating each one with a comma and one of the conjunctions and, but, or, nor or for.
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ESL Pre-Intermediate Grammar Worksheet- Will or Going to in Future Sentences

For Students 8th - 10th
In this ESL use of "will or going to" instructional activity, students fill the blanks in 6 sentences that tell about the future. Students choose whether to use "will" or "going to" to complete the sentences correctly.
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Foreign Words in English

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students read a list of28 words that have had their origin in a language other than English. Students place the foreign words into the correct box that tells the country of origin: France, Germany,...
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City Quiz Series

For Students 7th - 10th
In this city quiz series learning exercise, students respond to 20 open-ended questions pertaining to shopping at Eagle Centre in Derby, UK.
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pH

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students test the pH of various solutions. In this pH instructional activity, students use litmus paper to test the pH of household solutions. They compare their results with book charts.
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Who Has Hair?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore similarities and differences. For this Teaching Tolerance lesson, students read literature and participate in activities that features mammals and their hair. Students learn that they share things in common while we are...
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Is Air a Fluid?

For Teachers 2nd - 11th
Students use baking soda, vinegar, matches, and other materials to pour gas. In this air lesson plan, students use the materials to pour gas and learn that air can be a fluid like a liquid.
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Problem Solving Strategy: Work Backward

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this problem solving challenge activity, students work backward to solve a set of 5 word problems. Answers are included on page 2.
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Invest in What You Know

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students complete a series of tasks that help them learn about the stock market. In this stock market lesson plan, students identify companies they are familiar with and learn about stock symbols. Students study the makeup of...
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Mosquitos

For Students 4th - 8th
In this mosquitos worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about mosquitos. Students answer 5 questions about mosquitos.