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Eat A Rainbow!
Students demonstrate the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. For this nutrition lesson, students identify and sort different fruits and vegetables by colors. Students list reasons why eating fruits and vegetables are important...
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They Don't Just Eat Grass
Middle schoolers explore and examine different types of feed used for livestock. They discuss types of feed, the need for energy and health, and create graphs of food compared to categories. Students organize data and complete worksheets...
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Respiration, Circulation, and Excretion
In this body systems worksheet, students read information about the respiratory, circulatory, and urinary system and then complete 5 short answer questions.
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Be A Nutritional Entrepreneur
Students research and define nutrition. They choose a definition of nutrition or a nutritional theme around which they design a restaurant. This activity helps students answer the question "What is a nutritionally balanced meal?"
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Liver
Students study the livers parts and functions then follow a lab experiment to watch first hand how the gut uses bile to physically break down fatty substances into smaller pieces.
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Carbohydrates - Simple and Complex
Young scholars examine simple and complex carbohydrates. They take notes and complete a worksheet. They also research cookbooks and find recipes which shows the simple and complex carbohydrate groups.
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Nutrition 2: Good Food, Good Health
Students examine how food provides them with energy and materials for their body. In groups, they identify good and bad foods to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Using the internet, they research how food can affect their overall health.
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Earthworm Dissection
Students identify the external features of the earthworm. They view a video about different features of an earthworm. They research information about annelids on the Internet. They compare and contrast the earthworm with another annelid.
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Eating a Low-fat Nutritious Lunch
Students describe healthy and delicious lunch foods to replace junk foods. They make and eat lunch foods.
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Eating a Nutritious Lunch
Students identify the types of foods and snacks they eat for their lunch. In groups, they identify healthy foods along with unhealthy foods. They design a new lunch menu using only healthy food and identifying which food group they belong.
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What Can I Do?
Pupils identify ways to handle conflict. In this conflict resolution lesson, students brainstorm times when they had a conflict with a friend. Pupils develop a strategy to deal with conflicts in the future, such as talking it through or...
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Carnivorous Plants: A Bugs Nightmare!
Students research carnivorous plants and how they trap insects. They role play as botanists to write a research field guide about a newly discovered imaginary carnivorous plant.
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Pies: A Practical Application
Students participate in making a pie. They are to discuss the nutritional value and the different types of pies. They also answer questions from the teacher about fat and they complete a pie evaluation form.
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Mini-Ecosystems
Students use plastic bottles to create terrariums and plant Venus Flytraps. They observe the plants and the terrariums for illustrations of the water cycle and species' adaptations to a specific environment.
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Where Do I Fit In The Food Pyramid?
Students discuss how their daily diets fit into the dietary guidelines set out by the food pyramid. They write a paragraph describing good health habits and identify areas where their personal diet can be improved.
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CALORIE COUNTDOWN
Students will categorize foods according to their components and energy content.1. Design a large bulletin board with sections for carbohydrates, fats and proteins.
2. Ask students to bring labels and packages of different food products....
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Training Table Race
Students investigate the role of the carbohydrates food group in sports performance. The difference between simple and complex carbohydrates, and the performance of cardiovascular activities form the focus of the lesson.
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Selecting Soil Organisms in Compost
Students conduct an experiment to demonstrate that many of the enzyme systems needed to break down society's wastes exist in nature among the decomposers in a compost pile. They culture compost bacteria on starch agar to examine the...
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Selecting Soil Organisms in Compost
Students demonstrate that many of the enzyme systems needed to break down--and therefore clean up-society's wastes already exist in nature among the decomposers. They select the best starch-munching organisms by altering the environment...
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A Tough Nut to Crack
Students study the origins and background of the pecan. For this agriculture lesson students divide into groups, complete an activity and worksheets.
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What's on Your Plate?
Students analyze the calorie content of food. In this health science instructional activity, students discuss how excess calories affect our body. They write a healthy meal plan for their family.
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Maternal Nutrition during Pregnancy and Lactation
Young scholars explain the relationship among nutrition, infection and diseases. In this health science lesson, students suggest ways to break the nutrition-infection cycle. They brainstorm solutions to prevent infectious diseases in the...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Anatomy & Physiology: Digestion Sys Absorption, Elimination
Through informational text with printable notes, interactive assignments, and video clips, students discover the structure and function of the human digestive system.
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Kids Health: Your Digestive System
A complete student lesson on the human digestive system. Students can listen to the text being read, watch a video on the subject, and view an interactive diagram of the digestive system. When finished, learners take an online quiz.