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Changing unhealthy eating habits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the elements of a balanced diet, then compile a daily diet and exercise log to assess their lifestyles and improve them if applicable. They recognize and explain the importance of proper nutrition practices.
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What Makes a Healthy Plant?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners predict the effects of water, light, and soil on the development of a plant and then design an experiment to test their predictions.
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Salt Junk and Ship's Biscuit

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders describe the diet of the Royal Navy during the Revolution. They prepare and cook a typical meal for a sailo and identify potential health problems arising from such a diet.
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Snacks 'R Us

For Teachers 1st
First graders experiment with fat content by analyzing snack foods. They learn what makes up a nutritious snack.
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Mater Your Munchies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the various food groups while doing a physical activity.
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Decomposers at Work!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars design and conduct investigations that illustrate the process of decomposition. After a lecture/demo, students simulate the process of soil composting in the classroom. They closely chart the decomposition of their soil.
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Smart Snacking Dragon

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in activities that focus on making healthy snack choices.
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The Riddle of the Playground Cave

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students discuss food groups and combination foods, and solve riddle story.
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Outlining Transportation#139

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine how people, products, and ideas travel. They create an outline using the proper format after completing a class brainstorming session about means of transportation.
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Hot Off the Grill

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read an article about humans getting sick from eating improperly cooked meat. In groups, they cook a hamburger patty and when they believe it is done, they check the temperature with thermometers. They record their temperatures...
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Lesson: Journey of a Tree

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the operation of a Christmas farm and how trees are shipped. After taking a tour of a Christmas tree farm and researching transportation, location and cost issues, 3rd graders create a map to show the distribution...
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Stage 1: What is Going into the Bin?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Student can explain the difference between biodegradable and non-biodegradable. They calculate how much rubbish bags all their families together produce each week and then calculate how much rubbish their families produce during the...
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Pyramid

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars work in small groups as they are assigned one of the food groups. They decide how to act out one of the foods included in that group. Next, they discuss their favorite foods and where they fit on the food pyramid and...
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Making Pencil Containers

For Teachers K - 4th
Students get their cans and their Popsicle sticks and glue a Popsicle stick to the can and continue around the can until it is covered. They paint the Popsicle sticks any color they want or decorate it any way they choose. When the can...
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Consumerism - Brand Comparison Lab

For Teachers 10th - 11th
The student will have an opportunity for themselves to determine which brand they prefer by comparing national and store brands by their appearance, cost and flavor. They will be looking for the best economical value.
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Ecology of the Dump

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recreate landfills in petri dishes, observe relative biodegradability in a year-long project, and isolate a cellulose degrading bacteria while discovering the need for recycling and the serious problem waste management has...
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Counting on Good Health

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in fun activities in order to understand the food pyramid and how to make healthy nutritional choices. The lesson is used in order to help students make healthy lifestyle choices.
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Heritage: What if the Mormons had not come to Utah?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use critical thinking, evaluation, and geography skills to find alternative locations that Brigham Young could have taken the Mormons to settle. They present their findings to Brigham Young and the class with a short...
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Classroom Composting

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students observe and describe the cyclic nature of life. They identify and appreciate the importance of a balanced ecosystem. Finally, students compare and contrast biodegradable and non-biodegradable resources in nature and describe the...
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Think Green

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students experience and practice compositing and recycling through hands-on-activities. They distinguish between which items from their trash can be recycled, composted and reused. The process for making recycled paper is also covered in...
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Spellbound

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this crossword learning exercise, students complete a crossword puzzle by solving a variety of clues. For example, "Rome is the capital of this boot-shaped country."
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Winter

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this literacy worksheet, students use context clues and the word bank in order to complete the reading passage with the right word choices.
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Food: Habits and Holidays

For Students 7th - 8th
In this foods of the world worksheet, students answer true and false questions about their own eating habits, than complete a matching activity where they match foods with countries of the world.
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African Elephants

For Students 4th - 5th
In this elephant worksheet, students read several factual paragraphs about African elephants. Students then answer several questions about the animals.

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