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Vary Your Veggies and Focus on Fruits
Third graders study a healthy diet. In this healthy diet lesson, 3rd graders investigate the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables. Students compare a healthy diet to their personal diet.
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Calorie Countdown
Fifth graders analyze their caloric intake and energy output. In this nutrition and health instructional activity, 5th graders use the Dietary Guidelines for Americans to evaluate their personal food intake and activity level. Students...
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Self-Awareness
Students investigate their attitudes, emotions, feelings and personality. They determine how they view themselves and how they are viewed by others.
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Safety Lesson
Students review or introduce personal safety concepts in a variety of areas common to the lives of students.
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Say It with Meaning: Applying Sayings and Phrases
Students complete a unit of lessons on well known sayings and phrases. They create a journal, write paragraphs, sequence events, and analyze key vocabulary for various sayings and phrases throughout the school year.
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Senses, Spaces And Structure
Students develop greater ease with their bodies and their personal environments.
They extend body space into its immediate architectural boundaries and draw a simple yet detailed floor plan of a physical space or structure (bedroom,...
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Talented Fingerprints
First graders create a book about their interests and talents. In this lesson on personal differences, 1st graders share what makes them unique and who they are.
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Resources and Recipes for Independent Living
Students discover how to prepare low-cost, nutritional meals. In this personal health lesson, students analyze nutritional standards, plan a nutritional meal, budget for the meal, and share their findings with their classmates.
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Reading the Movies: Another Approach To Teaching Critical Thinking Skills And Writing
Pupils explore the elements of film to analyze character, action, and the themes in the movie, "Quiz Show." The instructional activity encourages students to make personal connections and real life applications as they view the movie,...
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Who Am I?
Middle schoolers utilize the tools and elements available in a multimedia application to create a 1-page document, presented in comic book form, about a famous person. The document they create may be part of a multi-faceted research...
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Safety wtih Animals
Students analyze animal feelings. In this personal health lesson, students examine the body language hints and sounds that dogs use to express their emotions.
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Personalized Poetry Portfolio
Eighth graders create their own poetry portfolio containing poems that relate to Students' lives and families. The portfolio consist of the following types of poems: acrostic, diamante`, haiku, cinquain, and free verse.
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Creating a Personal Resume
Fifth graders be asked to write down information about themselves from questions on the board. They take this information and type it in a program from the computer lab. The resume will be kept in their expandable file for future reference.
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Lesson #10 Standard Measurement
Learners are introduced to units of measurement found on a ruler as well as what attributes make an object difficult or easier to measure with a ruler. The teacher has various objects placed around the room, and the youngsters practice...
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Grade 10 - Personal Development (Mental Well-Being)
Tenth graders propose strategies for enhancing and maintaining emotional health and well-being encourage respect for others.
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Writing for the Real World: Get Well and Sympathy Card
In this writing worksheet, learners follow read about features of a get well/sympathy card, then follow directions to make a card, and choose another occasion and make an appropriate card.
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Famous Person Datsolalee (Louisa Keyser)
Young scholars examine the how Datsolalee used her talents to make Washoe basketry. They determine their own personal talents before determining the difficulties involved in basketmaking. They complete the study with a Talent Show.
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Are You A Respectful Person?
Students take a self survey to see if they are respectful and complete 28 discussion questions. There are writing assignments and student activities to complete as well. Video that is referenced is not included.
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Personal Spelling Words
Fourth graders identify challenging spelling words, as well as have the correct spellings at the tips of their fingers. It also allows the students to use several different aspects of technology that they will use many times throughout...
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Listening Well
Students demonstrate good listening skills. In this listening skills lesson, students identify the signs people give when they are actively listening, such as eye contact. Students practice good listening skills in a an interview activity.
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Autobiography Planner
In this personal profile learning exercise, learners fill out several facts about themselves including their place of birth, where they've lived, schools they've attended as well as their interests.
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A Life Lived Well
Students write poems based on words and phrases found in an obituatuary. They write autobiographical obituaries that imagine their own lives and future accomplishments.
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Be Sure To Wash Your Hands!
Students investigate the concept of personal hygiene and its contribution to the prevention of disease. They focus upon the practice of handwashing while conducting research looking for its proven effectiveness. Then students answer some...
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All About Me
In this personal profile worksheet, young scholars fill in the blanks about facts about themselves as well as draw a picture of themselves to share with their classmates.