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Sunny or Shady?
Students practice answering questions to aid in creating meaning when reading. Through guided practice, they read a passage from the chapter book "Tuck Everlasting" and answer in-text and inference questions. Independently, they read...
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Deep or Shallow
Third graders practice answering questions to aid in creating meaning when reading. Through guided practice, they read a passage from a chapter book and answer in-text and inference questions. Independently, they read another chapter...
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What's My Nutrition Value?
Second graders, in groups, explore how to read labels on food packages. They learn the nutritional value of food.
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What Are Calories?
Students examine calories for the human body. In this calorie instructional activity, students explore the energy expenditures needed for different types of activities and how many calories are needed to support daily functions.
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Rethink Your Drink
Students examine the sugar content of common beverages. For this adult health lesson, students convert grams of sugar to teaspoons. They discuss the benefits of drinking water instead of soda and juices.
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What's My Number?
Fifth graders use AppleWorks to stamp a given number to the thousandths place. They read, write and order integers, whole numbers and rational numbers. They represent place value using concrete or illustrated models.
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An Ancient Greek and Roman Festival
Third graders label a map of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations and do a written report on one element of these two cultures. They participate in discussions of food, farming, daily life and government (among others). Students use the...
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What's Organic?
Young scholars define and discuss terms organic and synthetic, read article pertaining to organic agricultural practices in Oklahoma, complete worksheet, grow plants using both commercial and organic fertilizer, compare growth rates, and...
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"The Tiger Who Came to Tea"
Young scholars complete various activities related to the book "The Tiger Who Came to Tea" by Judith Kerr Collins. They participate in a shared reading activity, list the foods from the story, write and read sentences in speech bubbles,...
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Cookie Fractions
First graders demonstrate how to use cookies to create different fractions. For this math lesson, 1st graders build their knowledge based on what they hear after the teacher reads Eating Fractions by Bruce McMillan by cutting a cookie in...
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Observing Pods
Middle schoolers observe the pistil growing into a tiny string bean-like seed pod. They then observe the development of the fertilized pods between Day 17 and Day 35 and record their observations by drawing and labeling, writing, and...
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Skittle Graphing (Lesson Plan)
Students discuss the uses of graphs. They use color candies to count and sort before designing graphs. They label the graph papers with appropriate titles and candy colors. They complete the graph bars, and discuss the results with a...
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Starvation in the Ghettos
Students investigate how human beings survive under camp and ghetto life's extreme condition while understanding the USRDA requirements. They recognize the suffering and loss of life due to the lack of adequate nutrition.
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Diet: Find the Carbohydrates
Students discover and discuss the functions of carbohydrates. Once they have taken notes and completed worksheets, they perform experiments using iodine to test for starch. Lesson topics include how carbohydrates are processed by the...
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Getting There
Young scholars practice reading a pictograph. In this data analysis lesson, students collect data and create their own pictograph. A young scholars worksheet is included.
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Foiling Spoilage
In this agricultural education worksheet, students read 6 descriptions of bacteria that cause food spoilage. Students then read 4 descriptions of preservatives that can be used to prevent spoilage. The worksheet is meant as a display.
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Energy in Living Systems
High schoolers are asked: Is our life's purpose over when it's over? What happens to our bodies? They analyze the flow of energy through living systems. Students compare the metabolism of autotrophs with that of heterotrophs. They...
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If These Walls Could Talk: Seeing a Culture Through Human Features
Students read Talking Walls and discuss the walls presented and their importance to the culture. For this geography lesson, students locate and label each country/continent discussed in the book on a world map. Students take a walk and...
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Catch Me If You Can: Over and Under
Students read a story. In this vocabulary skills lesson, students read The Gingerbread Man, use flannel cut outs to re-enact the gingerbread man running over and under.
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Comprehension Review for Fifth Grade
In this comprehension review for fifth grade learning exercise, 5th graders answer 9 multiple choice questions in standardized test format about the main idea and details of two passages.
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Terrific Taste Buds
Learners explore descriptive writing by eating food in class. In this descriptive word lesson, students assess different foods in class such as jelly beans and utilize their vocabulary to describe the taste. Learners read the story...
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Parts of a Plant
Students explore biology by listening to an in-class lecture. For this plant science lesson, students sing songs with their classmates regarding anatomical parts of a plant and create plants from arts and crafts materials. Students...
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The Five Senses
Pupils use their senses to identify a variety of items in mystery boxes after listening to a read aloud of Aliki's, "My Five Senses." They taste and smell items to identify them before completing a Senses Literature Log. They label the...
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Plentiful Plants Book Review
In this literature activity, students choose a nonfiction book about plants to read and report about. They note the title, author, illustrator, and publisher. They follow five directions to draw and label plant diagrams, make charts,...