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Free Enterprise--Product Cost

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students apply basic math skills in computing a product cost.
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Calculating Your Foodometer

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore environmental issues by completing a food production class activity. For this carbon footprint lesson, students discuss the types of foods they eat, where they come from and what types of methods are used to transport...
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Indoor Gardening by Building a Simple Hydroponics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the use of hydroponic gardening on the world food supply. In this hydroponic gardening lesson, students make a garden out of a soda bottle, grow a cilantro plant, and compare hydroponics with regular gardening using...
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Fastest Way to a Full Belly

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a scale model of a cafeteria. In this scale lesson plan, groups improve their actual school cafeteria layout by taking measurements of the structure and redesigning furniture and food serving lines. They create a scale...
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Benefits of Indoor Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners diagram a plant. In this Science lesson, students explore the concept of photosynthesis focusing on the oxygen production. Learners calculate the amount of plants needed to filter the air in their classroom.
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Prairie In A Bottle

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders observe images of prairie ecosystems and discuss the needs of living things. They create a prairie habitat in a closed jar to observe the water cycle and plant growth.