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Importance of Nutrition

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Prepare your class members for the performance task assessment on nutrition with an activity that asks class members to rank images of foods from least nutritious to most. Participants also offer reasons for why they ranked the foods the...
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Organizations Working for Peace

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
We're all in this together! Show young scholars that peace is a process and having the support of like-minded people can make it happen. 13th in a series of 15 peace building activities, groups conduct research on a peace organization,...
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Goal Setting

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students participate in a lesson that focuses on the skill of setting a goal. They practice the setting of a specific goal that can be measured and achievable given the right resources. Students generate a list of goals while going...
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Sexual Development

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students identify what puberty is and what changes they can expect during this period of time. Students discuss the challenging aspects of puberty and celebrate the best and most exciting aspects. Students record the best/easiest things...
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Appalachia: Presidential Physical Fitness Test

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in the Presidential Physical Fitness Test. In this personal fitness instructional activity, students warm up and complete the required push-ups, sit-ups, running, and stretching exercises.
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Sparking History

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create exhibits about patriotic symbols for a living museum. They write reflective essays exploring the themes and symbols of independence and their influences on social responsibility.
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Net Results

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate through role play how decisions by watermen, recreational fisherpeople, and lawmakers influence and are influenced by economics and the abundance or scarcity of fish and shellfish stocks. They consider social,...
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History of the Local Community

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars research their local communities and identify the founding fathers of their city and county. In this communities lesson plan, students research using the library and internet. Young scholars also interview citizens who...
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You are the Curator: Building a Museum of the 1920s and 1930s

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine primary and secondary sources regarding 1920's and 1930's America. In this Webquest instructional activity, students explore sources regarding the American decades in order to create their own museum exhibits.
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Forget Us Not

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students read a literary selection about the Holocaust. They examine a website with art and poems created by students regarding this topic. Then they create poetry that demonstrates their understanding of the literary selection on the...
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Performance Standards/Competencies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research how children dressed during Colonial times. Students design and create life-sized likenesses of themselves, dressing the paper dolls in colonial dress.
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Breaking News English: Boy Aged 9 to Study Maths at University

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "Boy Aged 9 to Study Maths at University," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Meat, Poultry, Fish, Eggs: Constructing and Maintaining

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate meat as a source that provides protein, iron and nutrients in the diet. They identify types of meat and their sources, complete a market survey, conduct a fried egg experiment, and prepare various recipes that...
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Mardi Gras Quilt

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars investigate the concept of Mardi Gras and how it is celebrated in Louisiana. They use technology in order to create interest in the form of a video. Students create a quilt template using the internet to copy and paste...
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Breakfast: Healthy for Me and Healthy for the Environment

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students develop criteria for a healthy and environmentally friendly breakfast and use these criteria to design a breakfast menu. They use a decision chart to evaluate their choices which is imbedded in this plan.
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The Work of our (Divine) Hands

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore ethical "mitzvots." In this philanthropy lesson, students consider how to lead their lives ethically according to the dogma of mitzvot. Students discuss the consequences of their actions.
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Executive Branch & Presidents Questions

For Students 8th - 12th
For this U. S. government worksheet, students respond to 20 short answer questions about the responsibilities of the executive branch and the president.
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Developed v. Developing Countries

For Teachers 7th - 10th
In this developed and developing countries Cornell question worksheet, young scholars use the notes provided to create a note card for study purposes.
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Thomas Nast political cartoons

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars think about entrepreneurialism and participate in a business project of their own.
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Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditioning

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students view the A.D.A.M. computer simulation of aerobic and anaerobic exercise. They break into groups and members brainstorm and list as many aerobic and anaerobic exercises as possible in five minutes.
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Know your Heart Parts and Functions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars put together a 3-D interactive "heart" puzzle and learn the names of heart parts.
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BACK IN TIME

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explain what is involved in exploration and settlement of new areas. They become explorers and discover their surroundings through various activities.
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Hey, Hey! Ho, Ho! Why Do We Need the WTO?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students participate in various hand-on activities as they study six international institutions that play important economic roles in the areas of international trade and finance.
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A Fortnight of Furlongs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students perform a webquest to research information about the horse industry. They look at economic and the cultural impact of the industry on Central Kentucky and then create a group presentation that addresses all essential questions.

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