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Students discuss obesity epidemic, analyze food wrappers and their content and brainstorm healthy food choices. They work together to design a poster to encourage a healthier lifestyle.

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Students investigate how to find the density of fluids and solids using math. Students also learn how to find the density of regular and irregular shaped objects.

Students examine the roles of genes and evolution on behaviors. In groups, they identify the relationships among DNA, genes and chromosomes. They evaluate the different theories of language acquistion and how evolved tendencies interact...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of weight and how to calculate the weight of an object.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A video and practice questions on how to read the scales for two items and record the weights in compound metric units. [1:22]

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A video and practice questions on how to read a scale and record the weight in compound metric units. [1:08]

Activities to practice understanding weight.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Convert and identify equivalent customary units of weight.