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Missouri Department of Elementary

What Are Safe and Unsafe Drugs/Medicines/Objects?

For Teachers K Standards
Encourage responsible decision-making while boosting sorting skills with a lesson that looks at safe and unsafe situations. Scholars use two bags, one happy the other sad, to sort scenario cards. After a thorough examination,...
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What are Safe and Unsafe Drugs/Medicines/Objects?

For Teachers K
Students examine safe and healthy scenarios. As a class, they participate in an activity in which they identify a situation as either safe or unsafe as well as healthy or unhealthy. Once class activity is complete, individuals repeat the...
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Friendship and Belonging

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars identify and demonstrate various emotions. In this philanthropy lesson, students listen to the book, The Brand New Kid by Katie Couric, and brainstorm ideas to help new children feel welcome at school. Young scholars role...
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Project Food, Land & People

Loco for Cocoa

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a time line and map about how chocolate traveled the world. In this chocolate lesson plan, students also create and taste chocolate.
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Nature's Superheroes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compare their prior knowledge about the relationship between sunlight and cancer with new findings. They research how different vitamins and minerals affect the human body.
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Fire Safety

For Teachers K
Students explore how to act in the event of a building they're in being on fire.
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Ariann's Nutrition Expedition Adventures Remembered

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders respond in their nutrition journals to a prompt about the importance of the five food groups.
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Make a Peace Windsock

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners explore "peace." In this character development lesson plan, students define "peace" and discuss instances that reflect examples of peace. Learners create a windsock using symbols for peace. Directions for the windsock are given.
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Cheeseburger Food Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students use a cheeseburger to demonstrate knowledge of the food groups. In this healthy eating lesson, students learn about the food groups by investigating the different parts of a cheeseburger. The students create a model cheeseburger...
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Junk Art

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students find uses for old or discarded items (recycling) by making puppets.