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You Are What You Eat (Grades 5-8)
Students gain an enhanced understanding of the relationship between proper nutrition and good health. Through use of video, hands-on activities and interaction, students measure energy in food, and recognize sources of vitamins and...
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Restaurant Tipping Lesson
What do you do after a good meal, tip the server of course. The class calculates the appropriate tip to leave at a restaurant given certain bills. They identify the bill before and after tax and find the correct tip. A great way to put...
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What's for Lunch?
In this money word problem activity, 5th graders solve and complete 6 different problems that include determining the cost of food for lunch. They determine which meal goes to which customer first. Then, students use the information...
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Clues From the Past: Daily Life
Students discover the ways different cultures gathered and made food. In groups, they read excerpts from primary sources about the food people in Mesopotamia liked to eat. They work together to make a batch of goat stew and a loaf of bread.
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Dr. Seuss Comes to Middle School Math Class
If you think Dr. Seuss has no place in a math classroom, then take a look at this resource. Based on the classic children's book Green Eggs and Ham, this sequence of activities engages children learning to model real-world contexts...
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Ch-Ch-Ching Cafe: Play Restaurant Make Change
Fourth graders make change by participating in a role-play restaurant activity. In this making change lesson, 4th graders use their math skills to compare prices and compute bills in a role play restaurant activity.
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A Field of Beans
Beans, or legumes as they are sometimes called, are the topic for an integrated multi-subject lesson. Youngsters will read, write, observe, and research everything there is to know about beans. They read a bean story, conduct a bean...
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Growing Money
Fourth graders sell plants. In this business lesson students propagate plants from cuttings. Students create a business to sell the plants they grow.
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Idioms Quiz: Time 1
In this online idiom quiz worksheet, students analyze the idioms about time within the sentences and select the correct meaning for the 10 exercises.
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That was Then, This is Now
Learners compare and contrast data charts and statistics for food prices of now and in the past. In this food prices lesson plan, students answer short answer questions and calculate computations.
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Showing Favorites
In this tally chart learning exercise, students use the tally chart on the page to answer 2 questions. They then solve the last 2 questions using their own tally chart.