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Allegry Season

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students use the Internet to research allergies. They discover different companies which are involved in helping Americans relieve their allergy symptoms. They finally discover the different types of allergy causing agents.
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Who's Coming to Dinner?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students identify the role predators/prey play in food chains, differentiate between food chains and webs, identify factors that affect the balance in food webs, and propose solutions to protect endangered species' environments and...
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Health Care

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Options for public and privately funded health care is a valuable debate for students to follow and learn from. They can use their research to take part in a Town Hall Meeting using facts and style. They will contact the representatives...
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Describing Symptoms

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students practice describing their symptoms to a health care worker. They follow certain statements and practice answering them as well. They practice dialogues they might find in an emergency room.
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Staying Alert and Fit to Drive a Truck

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine the safety concerns of driving while sleepy.  In this driving safety lesson students come up with techniques that can help drivers stay alert on the road.
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Information, Please

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students view the video "Healthcare Crisis: Who's at Risk?" After researching various healthcare plans, students present their findings to the class.
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Harrison Family Fitness Night

For Teachers K - 8th
Students involve the community with an activity to help them learn more about fitness. They attend an event in which 3 different instructors teach 3 different physical activities and invited agencies to attend with informational tables.
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Home Security Do's and Don'ts

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this home security worksheet, students cut out a set of sentences related to home security, mix them up, and decide which belong in a "do's" list or "don't" list.
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Compost in a Bag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Young scientists create a compost bag, predict changes, and after one month, examine the bag to observe the changes that have occurred.
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In Case of a Medical Emergency

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Studens identify the variety of services available to them at their local medical facilities. In pairs, they role play different conversations that can take place during a medical emergency. Students create a brief description of the...
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Sentence Completion 2: High-Intermediate Level

For Students 9th - 12th
Need a sentence completion worksheet to give your pupils practice developing their vocabulary and reading comprehension skills?  Whether used as an in-class exercise or take-home practice, the provided answer and explanations key...
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Primary Source Worksheet: Tip O'Neill, "Epilogue: What I Believe" from Man of the House

For Students 8th - 11th
The epilogue to former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill's memoir provides readers with an opportunity to practice their informational text reading comprehension skills. 
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A Day in the Life of a San Francisco Native Animal

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Before Google, before Sillicon Valley, before the Gold Rush, the San Francisco landscape was a biome filled with grizzly bears, mule deer, tule elk, coyotes, gray fox, gophers, and moles. To explore the early days of yesteryear, kids...
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Birder - Watcher

For Teachers 4th
Take the class outside with a bird watching instructional activity. Young ornithologists participate in an outdoor activity that guides them on how to observe and study the feathered animals. After walking around school campus, bird...
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Obamacare

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Former President Barack Obama reformed the United States' health care system with Obamacare, but is the new legislation good for America? Scholars read a historical timeline about the passage of health care reform laws and compare United...
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Student Handout 6E: Trail of the Tomato Group E: Farm Workers

For Students 11th - 12th
What is life like for migrant farm workers picking tomatoes at the industrial level? Your class will research and create a visual display describing farm life, work on the farm, and the pressures put on agricultural producers by high...
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Help or Hype: The Ethics of Bio-Nanotechnology

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Ethical concerns are not always black and white. A well-designed lesson presents learners with scenarios for which ethics may come into question. Scholars learn to consider the different sides of a situation and make an unbiased...
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What's a Good Job?

For Teachers 12th
Upper graders almost always stress about life after high school. To ease the transition to adult life, discuss how to select a job to meet personal needs. Two writing prompts are included to help learners consider what they'd like to do...
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Documentary-Style Research Projects

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Show your pupils how to use guiding questions to help them focus their research into a topic. Using the framework provided by these questions, researchers explore a topic, collect interesting facts, and prepare a PowerPoint presentation...
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Communtiy Medical Facilities

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe various medical facilities and the services they provide. Working in pairs, students research and list the location and telephone number of community medical facilities and the services they provide. Independently,...
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Uninsured in America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers understand some of the problems faced by the uninsured through data collection and explore possible sollutions for those problems.
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Level 3--Maintaining Employment

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine and define an extensive list of vocabulary words that refer to employment, including the Employee Assistance Program, as well as the keeping of a job. They complete a variety of activity sheets to assist them.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Unhealthy Outlook

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events activity, students analyze a political cartoon about healthcare issues during the Clinton administration and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Differing Ideas Frame a Debate

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about the SCHIP Bill and respond to 3 talking point questions.

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