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Grade
4th - 8th
Subjects
Health
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Resource Type
Activities & Projects
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
5 days
Number of Slides
87
Instructional Strategy
Project-Based Learning
Activity

Create a Healthy Calendar

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Health nuts create a month-long calendar presenting health-themed pictures, tips, or facts in each day's box. Rather than just a project, you could raise the required number of health facts and use this as a unique assessment of everything learned during a unit on healthy lifestyle.

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Concepts

healthy habits

Additional Tags

healthy habits, health

Pros

  • Involves creativity in addition to information recall
  • Reinforces learning that can contribute to a healthy lifestyle
  • Includes a grading rubric and student guidelines
  • MS Word document can be altered

Cons

  • Designed for a specific class, but names and dates can be edited
  • Rubric gives equal value to format, content, and creativity and design; to increase the value of the project, consider making the requirements for content stronger

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