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Substance Abuse/Addiction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine addictions and the effects on people around them. They identify the characteristics of addition and indicators of alcohol abuse. They complete a worksheet for homework.
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Group Games

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students play several games as group to practice respect and social behaviors. In this group games lesson, students play spider web, foam ball passover, and silent ball. Students demonstrate cooperation and enthusiasm while participating. 
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Reproduction, Day 2: Pregnancy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify pictures of women labeling them pregnant or not pregnant. They discover what happens inside a woman when she is pregnant. They explain the relationship bettwen intercourse, fertilization and parenthood.
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A Funky Healthy Life Style!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students name the five food groups and classify foods according to group. They tell how proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins/minerals, and water help their body. Students discuss how play and exercise can help their body.
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Reproduction, Day 2: Pregnancy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Nearly all young scholars have seen pregnant women and may have questions about human development. Intended for secondary students with mild to moderate mental disabilities, this instructional activity defines the process of pregnancy...
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Shooting Baskets- Relay Game

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students play a game.  In this basketball skills lesson plan, students work in teams to see whose players can all make a basket the quickest.
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Hunting for Hidden Fat

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate the importance of fat in the diet. They determine the difference between solid and liquid fat. They examine food labels to identify the ones that contain fat.
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Water Mitigation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the major health effects of arsenic contamination. They explain how arsenic gets into groundwater in Bangladesh. Students list ways to prevent arsenic from getting into drinking water. They explain why access to clean...
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Being Safe While Growing Up

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify ways that both insects and humans protect themselves from physical and biological hazards in their environment. They rear moths from egg to adult and consider the importance of trusting their own instincts.
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Arsenic Contamination: Natural Disaster or Human Induced?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list as a class the sources of arsenic contamination of water. They describe the major health effects of arsenic contamination in a letter. Students identify the regions that are affected by it.
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Food Group Fitness Relay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, put in teams, line up behind one of numbered cones. Player #1 in each group does designated locomotor skill, hop, skip, gallop, slide, etc., to center circle and selects a food card, then brings card back and places it under...
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Floor Hockey

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice key aspects of floor hockey: passing, playing cooperatively, moving the ball or puck with both sides of the stick and shooting. They practice drills and play a game without a goalie.
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Safeguarding the Rights of the Study Participant

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers write a paper that follow all the conventions of proper English. They create a paper that incorporates the required sections of an informed consent document such as would be used in a real clinical trial. Students...
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Cleanliness

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify ways that staying clean contribute to good health. They perform an experiment involving potatoes and washed and unwashed hands, observing the results. They complete a cleanliness chart, checking off each healthful habit...
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Family Mouse Behind the Wheel

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils examine how their transportation choices affect the natural environment and their physical health as well as the power of community involvement and the dangers of over development.
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Give Me Five A Day!

For Teachers K
Students engage in a instructional activity lead by the teacher to discover the diet plan of increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables. They conduct discussions in class with each other, at home with parents, and in the...
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Body Composition Tag

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are in two groups the "fat cells," are a group of 2 or 3 taggers, the rest of the class is lean body tissue. Students have two areas in the gym that are safe zones (nutrition and rest). Students who enter the nutrition zone have...
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Fun Bones

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn different bones of the body while using various body awareness concepts.
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Dribbling for Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice reading food labels and determining the correct number of grams of fat and carbohydrates in a single serving. They work on improving dribbling skills during the task.
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World Geography: Who am I?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are able to provide a basic description of one country that has arsenic in its water supply. They are able to locate these countries on a map. Students explore the majors countries that have been affected by arsenic...
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Nutrition Fitness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students review the number of servings of each section of the food pyramid appropriate to eat per day.They work in small groups to place food in the correct locations on the food pyramid. They complete the process to music.
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How Can You Detect the Invisible?

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in a lab activity in which they examine the characteristics of radon. They identify radon's link to cases of lung cancer. They complete a radon fact sheet and answer questions to end the lesson.
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Economics: Property Rights and the Rule of Law

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the economic value of property rights. In a classroom activity, "You're the Economist," they analyze actual research data from establishing land holding titles in Para, Brazil. They assess several case studies about the...
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What Does Advertising Say About Smoking?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students analyze the decision to smoke and how it is influenced by peer pressure. The discuss ways to say no to tobacco use.