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National Dental Hygiene Month Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learning about dental hygiene can be interesting with lessons that explore math, science, and the vocabulary of dentistry.
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Health and H1N1 Flu Lesson Plans

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Health and H1N1 flu lesson plans may be able to help keep students in school and learning.
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Stone Soup Lesson Plans

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
With "Stone Soup" lesson plans students can learn about cooperation, and have a delicious meal, all at the same time.
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Diabetes Lesson Plans

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students can be educated about diabetes, nutrition, and exercise through these lesson plans.
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No Child Left Inside Lessons

For Teachers 1st - 12th
The benefits of taking students outside for outdoor activities and lessons can be substantial for everyone.
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Health Lesson Plans

For Teachers 4th - 8th
With childhood obesity becoming an epidemic, it's more important than ever for elementary students to learn healthy habits early on.
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Playground Issues and Resolutions

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Getting your students to buy into good behavior on the playground improves everyone's year.
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Health Education in the Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Making a difference in the health of your students can be done with fun classroom activities.
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Special Education Students in the Mainstream Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 6th
How to prepare your mainstream students for a special education student in their classroom.
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Helping Students With Emotional Challenges

For Teachers 1st - 6th
How to help the emotional student function normally in class.
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Yoga in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Yoga can be a way for students to improve classroom performance by learning how to meet challenges calmly.
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Gardening with Your Students

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
By growing a class or school garden you can teach students about the environment, the life cycle of a plant, and healthy eating.
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A Love of Recipes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Everyone loves looking through cookbooks and recipes. This can turn into an educational experience for students.
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The Challenge to Deliver Insulin

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students study the types of diabetes and why insulin is important.  In this diabetes instructional activity students build molecular models and create a healthy lifestyle plan. 
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Brain Buzz: Effects of Caffeine, Nicotine, Alcohol and Drugs on Learning

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students understand how the brain functions and how they can promote a healthy lifestyle.  In this health lesson students complete several activities including investigating how stimulates affect the brain.
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À Votre Sant?: A French-Language Unit on Nutrition

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students discover the basic nutritional information for different foods.  For this nutrition lesson students classify items, identify what a balanced diet is and determine what recipes are healthy. 
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Your Amazing Body

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine the different body systems and how they are interdependent on each other.  In this body systems activity students draw the body and its parts. 
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Lesson Plans for Sweet Dreams: How Animals Sleep

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the sleeping patterns and sleeping habitats of animals. In this where animals sleep lesson, students research different animal species. Students also write and illustrate an animal picture book, make connections about...
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Kool Kumara Lesson Plans - Healthy Living

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students read graphs as they work with recommended daily intakes of nutrients. In this math and nutrition activity, students examine Recommended Daily Intake Maps to establish how much of the daily requirement is met by eating on kumara....
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Heart Rate

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students move through a variety of locomotor skills at different paces to see how they affect their heart rate. In this health, human body, and physical activity lesson plan, students measure their heart rate and discuss health. A...
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The Tobacco Time Bomb: What's In A Cigarette?

For Teachers 4th - 12th
In this enlightening and disturbing health instructional activity, students read and discuss information on smoking and closely-look at the ingredients in a cigarette. You will be amazed at the list of ingredients that are found in...
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Brain Awareness Week

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore human anatomy by completing a list of activities over five days. In this brain science lessons, students examine images of brains and identify the different parts. Students complete an in-class quiz regarding brain...
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Brain Awareness Week Lessons

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the human brain and nervous system. In this brain awareness lesson, students examine specific terms with regards to the human brain. Students discover the brain's structure and function and how it functions as the body's...
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BMI For Kids - Body Mass Index

For Students K - 5th
Promote healthy lifestyles with an interactive that provides young learners with healthy nutrition and exercise messages. Class members plug their height and weight information into an online body mass index calculator, and hear positive...