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Dust Busters to the Rescue

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Pupils examine the importance of cleaning up and preventing indoor air pollution. They investigate how cleaning can reduce the harmful health effects of indoor air pollution.
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Canine Companions: All Kinds of Dogs

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this family dog activity, students discover how to choose the type of dog that best fits their family.  Students research different types of dog breeds, and share with the class the type of dog they would choose for their family. A...
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Surviving the Teenage Years

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how to survive the teenage years and beyond. They research and collect data pertaining to career choices, health issues and legal concerns. Students develop a brochure about how to survive the teenage years.
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Working With Environmental Issues

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students begin the lesson by completing a survey about how much and what types of water they drink on a daily basis. Using a worksheet, they calculate the amount of water an American uses each day and the amount their own family uses. In...
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Families and Neighborhoods

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore the concept of community. In this community lesson, students explore the cultural flavor of their neighborhoods as they discuss the history of their neighborhoods and draw pictures of their family and a building in...
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Tell Me; I'll Listen

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete activities about the importance of listening in order to show respect. In this listening lesson, students read Angel Child, Dragon Child and discuss the role of listening. Students practice listening in pairs by telling...
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Mediation/Conciliation

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders discuss the court system in Japan, and assume roles of family members and friends of air crash victims. They discuss whether they would file suit against airlines, compare methods of achieving justice in United States and...
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Accentuate the Positive

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students analyze the attitudes, ideas and beliefs of characteristics that assist humans in living a positive, proactive life that values self, family, community, nation and world. Students identify their own strengths as individual....
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Elders' Ways

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders collect and compare folk beliefs and sayings about health and healing as well as folk remedies. Then they investigate local graveyards, analyze their findings, and compare graveyards in Louisiana. Students also engage in...
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Lesson Plan on Refugees

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore the issue of "human rights" and discuss world events/situations in which human rights are in question. They determine their own needs and wants and simulate the experience of being a refugee having to leave their home. ...
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Watch Your Mouth

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students examine the importance of good dental hygiene.  In this health lesson, students examine periodontal disease through a series of activities, and how it can be controlled by good oral health.
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Intro to PowerPoint-with KidPix Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students construct a four sentence creative story by using KidPix software. In this computer technology lesson, students use KidPix software to develop slides about themselves, their family, and their house. Students illustrate each...
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Why is rice a remarkable grain?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders research rice and its health benefits. In this rice lesson, 2nd graders discuss the popularity of rice in the world and its history. They make "rice squiggles" by sprinkling colored rice on a squiggle of glue. This lesson...
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Food Allergies: Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore different types of food allergies. In this food allergy lesson plan, students look at what foods people with peanut, seafood, milk, egg, soy or wheat allergies have to avoid. They create a button for a student with an...
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That's Exercise?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners examine a variety of ways to exercise and keep their bodies strong. They make letters of the alphabet with their bodies and listen to the book Baseball Brothers. Students watch a video clip from the PBS show Teletubbies, and...
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Extended Families

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars examine the various combinations that contemporary extended families take on. They identify how strong communication skills are important to the health of the family after reading a an excerpt from a first-person fictional...
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Exercise for the Heart

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss and understand relationship between physical activity and healthy heart, describe long-term effects of daily physical activity on heart, and set personal goals for daily participation in physical activities that...
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Drugs

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars investigate drugs by identifying which ones are illegal and potentially harmful.  In this medicine lesson, young scholars complete worksheets in which they role play situations where they have found or ingested drugs and...
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Obesity, Eating Habits and Weight Loss

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students conduct Internet research, view film and participate in class discussion to identify the problem and causes of obesity in America. They evaluate the food pyramid and break down the nutritional components of fast food and frozen...
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Empathy

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students complete activities to develop empathy. In this empathy lesson, students complete discussion activities and all the related worksheets in order to build their understanding of the concepts to empathy. Students identify a public...
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The Lost Children of Rockdale County

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the motivations and consequences of seeking attention, including sexual attention from peers, by interpreting segments of "The Lost Children of Rockdale County" video. They conduct further research on the Internet and...
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Growth and Development

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers analyze potentially stressful situations to determine the degree of control and individual has over behaviors. They provide examples of each of the following types of potentially negative thinking such as selective...
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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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The Great American Fire Drill

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read a story about fire safety and create their own ending to the story in order to learn about fire escape plans and to demonstrate their writing skills. In this fire safety lesson, students discuss the parts of a story, read...

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