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"Did You Eat That!"
First graders investigate why plants are an important part of our everyday lives, providing us with food, clothing, shelter, etc. In this lesson plan students participate in a series of hands-on, online, and multimedia activities to...
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Lets Think About...Plants
Students bring in various vegetables and make friendship soup. They plant seeds and discuss the things plants need to grow and thrive.
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Most Troublesome Exotic Invasive Plant Species Web Quest
Learners participate in a Web Quest activity in which they identify common exotic invasive plant species of the Southern Appalachian Region. After identifying the top 10 exotic invasive species, they choose one to research in depth.
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Food: Habits and Holidays
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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Mater Your Munchies
Students explore the various food groups while doing a physical activity.
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Smart Snacking Dragon
Second graders participate in activities that focus on making healthy snack choices.
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Think Green
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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Counting on Good Health
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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Seasonal Customs Worksheet
In this seasonal customs worksheet, students sort the customs that are adhered to when families celebrate special seasons or holidays.
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Explorit's Green Salad Quiz
For this food history worksheet, students read the information about the history of food and salads. Students select the correct answer for the 6 related questions.
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Pack Your Snacks and Go!
In this diet/health worksheet, students complete a word search, finding words related to travel snacks, and read a healthy snack mix recipe. Worksheet is 2 pages, 1 in English and 1 in Spanish.
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Halloween
In this Halloween crossword worksheet, students read the 26 clues about Halloween to help them complete the crossword puzzle about Halloween.
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Garbage in the Garden
Young scholars create their own compost. In this soil lesson plan, students fill a bag with waste and soil, in order to create a mini compost bin. Young scholars observe the baggies over a 6 week period, they record their findings and...
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World Hunger - Causes And Solutions
An online Sim City type game from the BBC website guides students to complete a World Food Programme mission. They investigate the causes and of hunger in different parts of the world and then research a particular region's hunger...
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By the Pound
Agriculture surrounds us every day; incorporate measuring tools into a study of Oklahoma's agricultural industry! Small groups read an informational text (included) before visiting stations where they investigate prices of various...
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Become a Nutrition Expert
In this nutrition learning exercise, 2nd graders read a selection on nutrition and fill in the table using the information from the selection.
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Consumerism
Learners examine the techniques that companies use to sell their products. In this consumerism lesson students create an ad for a company and create a handcrafted butterfly.
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FBI
Fourth graders experiment with compost. For this Science lesson, 4th graders begin a worm compost as well as an outdoor compost. Students discuss decomposition.
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Got to Rot
Students make their own compost in a 2-liter jug and determine the actual volume loss in the composted material over a six-month period.
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Deep Impact's Comet on a Stick!
Students create a model of a comet. In this space science lesson, students compare their model to the characteristics of a real comet. They evaluate and make necessary modifications to their original design.
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Mold Terrarium
Young scholars explore mold. In this mold lesson, students create a mold terrarium by using bread and a clear container. Young scholars observe the mold grow.
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Modeling the Solar System
Young scholars build a scaled model of the solar system. For this space science lesson, students arrange them according to their distances from the sun. They analyze each planet's unique features such as density and relative gravity.
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Vital Work
Students consider the role of women in the food industry. In this gender exploitation lesson, students work in groups to examine unfair labor practices. Students watch a video and write a fictional letter from a female laborer. This...