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Summer Fun Activity: Have a Picnic
Students celebrate the summer by preparing a picnic together. In this early childhood lesson plan, students word together to prepare a picnic and develop fine motor and cooperative skills.
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All Fats Are Not Created Equal
Apply robotics to connect physical properties to chemical properties. Future engineers use robots to determine the melting points of various fats and oils. The robots can do this by measuring the translucency of the fats as they heat up.
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The Color Way
Learners study the importance of eating a colorful diet of fruits and vegetables. In this nutritional diet instructional activity, students complete multiple activities to learn about the nutritional value of colorful fruits and vegetables.
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Students practice their reading comprehension while investigating vegetables. In this children's literature lesson, students are read The Tale of Peter Rabbit in class and analyze the concept and themes. Students complete...
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I Don't Ever Want to Smoke!
Students investigate the negative health effects of smoking. They listen to the book "Dog Breath" by Dav Pilkey, watch and discuss a PBS Mr. Roger's video clip, and create a list with their families of activities they like to do together.
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Fruit Color and Write
For this color and write fruit worksheet, 1st graders identify the fruits of an apple, orange, banana, and peach. Students color the fruits and then write the words.
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Tell Me About Teeth
For this science worksheet, students investigate the purpose of teeth, types of teeth, their anatomy, dental care, animal skulls and teeth, parts of a tooth and related topics by reading and completing the activities on the 8 full color...
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Touch and Abstinence
FLASH has put together another good lesson about touch and abstinence. Humans need human touch, yet many confuse this need for touch, and their desire for sex. Discuss the four types of touch with your health or teen issues class. There...
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Sexually Transmissible Diseases (STDs), Day 4: Epidemiology
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) or infections (STIs) are totally preventable. Yet, the number of cases is on the rise. Why? This health lesson contains a lot of information about prevention, as well as a great activity about how...
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Rhyming Fruits and Vegetables
Students describe fruits and vegetables using rhyming verses. They discuss the Five Fruits and Vegetables a Day campaign and rhyming words, and create a rhyming riddle using the "Rhyming Riddles" worksheet.
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Harry Hears!
Students explore ear anatomy and the sense of hearing. In this hearing lesson, students discuss the five senses and view a model of an ear. Students place cotton balls in their ears to simulate loss of hearing. Students use descriptive...
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Plan a Meal Fun
Discuss helping with the family grocery shopping. View a teacher drawn map of a grocery store and discuss where the breads, meats, and dairy products are located. Practice categorizing foods as breads and cereals, fruits, vegetables,...
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Basic Food Items
Young scholars explore healthy eating by defining food vocabulary terms. In this food purchasing lesson plan, students utilize word/picture cards to participate in a food identification activity among their classmates. Young scholars...
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Put a Rainbow on Your Plate
In this nutrition worksheet, students investigate the importance of eating fruits and vegetables of different colors 5 times a day. Students complete 8 pages of activities such as menu planning, shopping lists, word search, word...
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Apples Aplenty
Students identify a variety of apples. In this agriculture lesson, 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...
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Favorite Foods
Students draw a picture. In this favorite foods lesson, students list the foods they like to eat and form each like into a complete sentence. Students cut the word in the sentences apart and then arrange them in the correct order with a...
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Family Life Cycle - Children's Lab
Students identify the changing nutritional needs across the life cycle. They create and prepare a variety of healthy foods for children that provide adequate nutrients for optimum growth and development. They identify guidelines in...
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Delicious Dinners by Jr. Chefs
Students create a protein-rich dinner. In this nutrition lesson, students brainstorm foods that are rich in protein. Students make burritos and identify the color of meat when it is cooked thoroughly.
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What is Diabetes?
Students examine basic information about diabetes and related vocabulary words. They explore various health websites, complete a worksheet, discuss the worksheet answers and discuss diabetes myths vs. facts.
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A World of Taste--Louisiana Gumbo
Students discover the multicultural contributions to New Orleans gumbo through participation in cross curriculum activities. In this multicultural diversity and New Orleans history instructional activity, students shade regions of a map...
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Pretzel Mania
In this instructional activity, students enhance their number and letter recognition. Students make letters and numbers with pretzel dough. Students prepare the pretzel dough, shape it, bake it, and eat it. In this instructional...
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Unit 1: Introduction to Biotechnology
Biotechnology is big! Introduce the uses of biotechnology to science scholars with a fascinating, fact-filled unit. The first installment in a series of four biotechnology units covers the role biotechnology plays in human and...
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Litter Recognition
Students identify litter, and discuss what to do with it. They analyze people's response to litter. Some people may ignore it, while others may pick it up. They observe student behavior as part of an experiment.