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Uen: Making a Mini Worm Habitat
Activity shows the process of converting organic waste into usable fertilizer.
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Uen: Macroinvertebrate Simon Says
Introduces students to the feeding adaptations found in aquatic macroinvertebrates.
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Uen: Trb 3:2 Investigation 4 Plot Studies
Use a plot map to study the plants and animals living in a small area of their environment.
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Uen: Trb 3:1 Investigation 5 Making a Sundial
Make a sundial and learn how to use it.
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Uen: Cultural Museum
These activities will provide students an opportunity to reflect on their culture through art.
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Uen: Trb 4:5 Investigation 10 Mammal Oral Reports
Fourth graders will research Utah mammals and then create and present a mini-report.
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Uen: Trb 4:1 Investigation 2 Why Does a Puddle Shrink?
Classroom activity helps students understand evaporation.
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Uen: Trb 3:2 Investigation 3 Terrariums / Aquariums
Creating aquariums/terrariums help students understand how creatures depend on living and nonliving things.
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Uen: Mineral Replacement in Fossil Formation
Activity demonstrates two ways fossils are formed.
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Uen: Classifying Conundrum
In this activity, 4th graders will identify plant characteristics from different environments.
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Uen: Trb 3:2 Investigation 1 Intro: Living & Nonliving
Third graders learn to distinguish between living and nonliving things.
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Uen: Healthy and Unhealthy Behaviors
This lesson teaches students to identify the differences between healthy and unhealthy behaviors. Included are graphic cards that the students will use to make a classroom chart of healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
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Uen: Food Poisoning
Students will learn about food poisoning by preparing and performing small skits.
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Uen: Budgeting & Checking Activity Financial Literacy
This is a simulation for learners to integrate several concepts on saving and banking into one project.
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Uen: Insurance: Your Protection
This unit is intended to help students understand the importance of insurance in avoiding, reducing, and managing risk.
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Uen: Nutrients
Students will learn about the 6 basic nutrients and how to keep track of their food intake using a food tracker app on the ipad. Through this information they will be able to analyze their diet and make corrections where necessary.
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Uen: Uppers, Downers and All Arounders
This lesson will help young scholars to understand how alcohol, tobacco and other drugs affect the human body and can impair an individual's actions.
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Uen: Tobacco 101
This lesson will help students understand the short and long term effects of using tobacco as well as why it is addictive.
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Uen: Factors Affecting Reaction Rates
Students will investigate variables that have an effect on the rate of a reaction while designing part of the experiment themselves.
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Uen: Food Pyramid and Dietary Guidelines
Students will learn about the Food Guide Pyramid and Dietary Guidelines by looking at samples of serving sizes and filling out worksheets.
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Uen: Build an Atom
Students use cereal, marshmallows, and frosting to help them understand the concept of the atom, ion, and isotope, as well as the locations of subatomic particles in the atom, the concept of strong nuclear force.
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Uen: Amino Acids
Lesson explores scientific principles in using eggs as a highly nutritious and versatile food source of protein.
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Uen: Cyber Bullying Tee Activity
Students will learn basic concepts surrounding Cyber Bullying then produce a Tee shirt idea about it.
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Uen: The Dangers of and Ways to Be Safer Online
Students will increase their knowledge of Internet safety while will exploring and identifying dangers on the Internet and learn ways to avoid situations that might be threatening or harmful.