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Seed Sorting 101
Students sort through numerous seeds to find similarities and differences. In this sorting and classifying instructional activity, students divide up different plant seeds based on their similarities and differences, while keeping record...
Generation Rx
Medication Safety Patrol: Is It Candy or Medicine? Game
Scholars play a sorting game designed to encourage safe medication handling. They browse pictures of candy and medication, then decide which of the two they're looking at by raising a card labeled candy or medicine.
Curated OER
Recognizing the Importance of Sight
Students discover the true value of their senses. For this sight lesson, students discover the difficulty of life without sight by performing everyday activities without the help of their eyes. The students examine their results and the...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Virus Explorer
Most pupils know about the flu, HIV, and other viruses, but they don't know what each actually looks like. This interactive shows their relative size, structure, and allows for comparisons. It stresses the similarities and differences...
Curated OER
Home Living/ Daily Living: Food Groups
What are the best foods to eat, and how much is too much? Kids discuss the importance of eating the right amount of each of the four food groups. They discuss the food pyramid and make meals by cutting and pasting foods from a magazine...
Curated OER
Apples Aplenty
Students identify a variety of apples. In this agriculture lesson plan, students examine various types of apples and sort them according to attributes. Students describe the apple and create a word web. As an extension activity, students...
Curated OER
Candy Database
Students make a database of their Halloween candy and decide which types are the healthiest. For this diet lesson, students make written data charts using their candy, locate dietary information on one type, sort the candy by shape, and...
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Eat A Rainbow!
Students demonstrate the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. In this nutrition activity, students identify and sort different fruits and vegetables by colors. Students list reasons why eating fruits and vegetables are important...
Space Race
Sensory Detectives
Test your learners' sensory awareness with three hands-on activities that ask pupils to use their other senses to identify and describe everyday objects hidden from sight.
Curated OER
Engineering and the Senses: Smell
Students define the sense of smell. In this smell sense instructional activity, students review their five senses and define the importance of smell. Students practice smelling and identifying items in bags. Students discuss the...
Curated OER
Engineering and the Senses
Students explore nutrition. In this nutrition lesson, students discuss a person's sense of taste and how it is different for each person. Students discuss favorite foods and how they relate to nutrition. Students cut out pictures of...
Curated OER
Lesson Plan Ideas for Preschoolers
Students complete different activities throughout the day in a structured preschool setting. In this preschool day lesson plan, students complete circle time, academic learning, free play, and gross motor time.
Curated OER
Eat Right!
Students use magazines and other food pictures to arrange healthy meals onto construction paper.