University of Rhode Island
Food Safety Smart Curriculum
This is a must-have resource with everything you'll need for studying food safety with your pupils. From handwashing scorecards and cleaning kitchen surfaces to navigating the world of microbes and food-borne illnesses, here you'll...
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Lab Safety
Students review lab safety by walking into a classroom full of hazards and discussing what is wrong as they clean each station up.
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Lab Safety
Students are directed by the teacher on how to practice safety in a lab setting.
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Manufacture of Ground Beef
Young scholars study the proper temperature and technique to cook ground meat safely. They examine the critical control points when ground beef is being processed.
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Safety With Animals
Students investigate and become aware of when a dog is about to bite. In this safety and dogs instructional activity, students discuss dog bites and when they occur. Students complete a related worksheet and create a bulletin board about...
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Safety wtih Animals
Students analyze animal feelings. In this personal health lesson, students examine the body language hints and sounds that dogs use to express their emotions.
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Bacteria
Young scholars study food borne illnesses and what foods are more likely to carry them. In this investigative lesson plan students examine harmful bacteria.
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Ink Analysis: An Experiment in Paper Chromatography
Test differences in writing instruments with this hands-on activity to demonstrate paper chromatography in action. The class performs an experiment on multiple writing instruments and determines the area of separation to discover an...
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Rock On!
Fourth graders make models of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks out of different types of candy and cookies.
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Light at the Bottom of the Deep, Dark Ocean?
High schoolers participate in an inquiry activity. They relate the structure of an appendage to its function. They describe how a deepwater organism to its environment without bright light.