Activity
Lincoln Public Schools

Cereal Box Project

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Challenge your class with this fun and engaging engineering design project. The goal, to create a brand new cereal complete with a list of ingredients, a name and logo, and a box to hold it in. Starting with a survey to determine the...
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Analyzing Discrete and Continuous Data in a Spreadsheet

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
You are what you eat! Your statisticians keep a log of what they eat from anywhere between a day to more than a week, keeping track of a variety of nutritional information using a spreadsheet. After analyzing their own data, individuals...
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Food Label Fun

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders demonstrate how to read and analyze food labels. In this nutrition instructional activity, 3rd graders watch a food label video and investigate labels from various canned foods. Students create a chart showing the...
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Healthy Eating: Are We What We Eat?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students watch an introduction slide show to assess prior knowledge of healthy foods. They listen as the teacher goes over the food pyramid and food groups. Students analyze a lunch they bring from home by tallying their lunch items on a...
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Those Convincing Commercials

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study commercials and determine which cereal they feel is the most nutritious.
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Advertising – Does it Affect Our Purchasing Descisions?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars consider the power of advertisements. In this consumerism lesson, students dicuss advertising techniques, advertising regulations, and analyze advertisements. Young scholars also complete and evaluate and ad count...