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Keeping Our Food Safe

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students learn about bacteria and how it is all around us on people and on surfaces. Students develop an understanding of the correct hand washing technique to ensure their cleanliness. Students demonstrate exactly how to wash their...
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Charting Mold Growth

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students chart mold growth based on food supply. In this mold growth lesson plan, students chart micro-organism growth and the decline of the growth as food runs out.
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Combining Foods

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore addition. In this math lesson, students discover how addition and subtraction are related. Students model related addition and subtraction facts.
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Balance Your Day With Food and Play

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this healthy living worksheet, learners color a picture of a wild cat who is exercising in the park. Students find the 10 snacks and play things in the picture.
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Natural Features as a Resource

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students research how people use land and water features to meet their basic needs. In this natural features lesson, students review land and water features. Students discuss how the land is used to meet needs using a landscape picture...
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Build a Burger

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders describe a balanced diet. In this nutrition and health lesson, 2nd graders use a hamburger to exemplify the different food groups necessary for a blanaced diet. Students use the food pyramid as a resource.
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Introduction to Farming in the United States

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss basic foods and what constitutes a well-balanced meal. They identify four basic food groups, and identify food sources, such as farms.
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Eat Your Plants

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore fruits and vegetables. In this fruits and vegetables lesson, students work in small groups investigating plant parts. Students discover that fruits and vegetables originate from different parts of plants.
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Sharks

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Learners research sharks, the food chain, and the water habitat shared by humans and sharks.
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The Dentist

For Teachers K - 4th
Students read a short story about visiting a dentist. Then they use toothbrushes in order to demonstrate the correct way to brush teeth. Students use the internet to investigate how some foods are healthier for teeth than others. Then...
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How Do People Get Energy?

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this food energy learning exercise, students will write in examples of different foods that fit into the four food groups: grains, protein, fruits and vegetables, and milk products.
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Don't Worm Your Way Out of This One!

For Teachers K - 6th
Students study different aspects of worms along with the process of vermicomposting by participating in a class experiment to study the time it takes for breakfast cereal to be eaten by worms.
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Travelers for Trade and Global Peace

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Learners explore the resources in other countries. In this communities instructional activity, students examine characteristics of their community to those of other communities. Learners examine Canada, El Salvador, and India and their...
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It's a Wrap!

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils read about the importance of packaging foods and related items properly and reducing waste. In this packaging lesson, students read the background information about packaging and bring a variety of packaging materials to class....
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Living Things Depend upon Each Other

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners research animals. They identify the animals' struggle for survival, and internalize the importance of preserving an ecosystem with animal life.They collect information and write a report on their findings. Additional cross...
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Amazing Animals

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners, in beginning and advanced beginning ESL levels, use English in an animal lesson.
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Sometimes and All the Time Foods

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize a wide variety of fruit and have a greater understanding about the importance of fruit in their diet, and determine that some fruits' skins are edible and others are not.
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Earth Pockets

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the Earth's natural resources. In this Earth science lesson, students read the book The Great Kapok Tree and discuss types of natural resources. Students use categories such as wood, paper, and trees and list items that...
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How Do Plants and Animals Get Energy?

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this food chain worksheet, students will determine where plants and animals get their energy by filling in the blank of 4 statements.
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Uses of a Tree

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify and explore the resources we use that come from trees.  In this reading comprehension lesson plan, students sort word cards about resources that come from trees into groups based on the type of resource.
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Source Search

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss the sources of items they use everyday. In this social studies lesson, students sort pictures of items used everyday by their source. Students participate in a source relay.
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Ways We Use Trees

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use the Internet to find the ways we use trees. In this tree lesson, students make a list of the uses of trees and find magazine pictures that show these uses to make a collage. They read The Giving Tree  by Shel Silverstein and...
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What Do We Use From the Rainforest?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify items we use from the rainforest. In this earth science instructional activity, students recall prior facts about the rainforest and list items we use from the rainforest. Students create "Rainforest Cookies" using...
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Food and You

For Teachers K - 5th
Students examine the types of foods they eat. They describe the different components and resources that go into making their favorite foods. They also compare the resources going into different foods and identify ones which are more...